Crossword-Solution: WRYNESS 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Yes, I could see them, feel them, hear them, address them— Halo-bedecked— And, alas, onwards, shaken by fierce unreason, Rigid in hate, Smitten by years-long wryness born of misprision, Dreaded, suspect.

SPIRIT OF THE PITIES What do I see but thirsty, throbbing bands From these inimic hosts defiling down In homely need towards the little stream That parts their enmities, and drinking there! They get to grasping hands across the rill, Sealing their sameness as earth's sojourners.-- What more could plead the wryness of the time Than such unstudied piteous pantomimes! SPIRIT IRONIC It is only that Life's queer mechanics chance to work out in this grotesque shape just now.

When I say, quoth Rondibilis, that wine abateth lust, my meaning is, wine immoderately taken; for by intemperancy proceeding from the excessive drinking of strong liquor there is brought upon the body of such a swill-down boozer a chillness in the blood, a slackening in the sinews, a dissipation of the generative seed, a numbness and hebetation of the senses, with a perversive wryness and convulsion of the muscles--all which are great lets and impediments to the act of generation.

Wayne understood better, and smiled with a cynical wryness of mouth upon McGuire Ellis, who, having passed Hal and Esmé on the stairs, had lingered at the city desk and heard the editor-in-chief's half-hearted order.

Indeed, with the wryness of its branches, the grey-green of its leaves, you might almost have mistaken it for an olive-tree.