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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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