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  • A lot of the books get done that way, on the motorway, usually - I find as I get older that trying to type while we're on the twisty-twiny country roads makes me car-sick.

    The right tool 2008

  • His eggshell-brown skin and twiny dreadlocks marked him as a Negro, but Randy had a tight walk and way of talking that Kiki associated with northern whites.

    RL’s Dream Walter Mosley 1995

  • So they climbed up to the twisty-twiny, corkscrew staircase, and found the door of the room where they had slept under the wonderful white coverlets that now were coats.

    The House of Arden Edith 1923

  • They're the other side of that twisty-twiny, inside-out, upside-down shakiness that turned the attic into the tower.

    The House of Arden Edith 1923

  • As for these latter, they flashed about them here, there, and everywhere, now glittering in the sunshine, now looking dull and plum-coloured as they hovered on hazy wings before the long trumpet blossoms of some convolvulus-like flower whose twiny stems trailed over or wrapped the lower growth.

    Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Lilla shuddered on one occasion as I pointed out the long, twiny body of

    The Golden Magnet George Manville Fenn 1870

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