He warily watched the machine only to be horrified as the bent and twisted limbs started to move again.

Everything in this self-contained world was somehow akimbo, like the bent limbs that rise eventually from the hurtling commotion.

"A sip of this once a day for a few weeks, and a child with bent limbs will grow firm and straight."

Almost spider-like he looked now, crouched back on his bent limbs, with his protruding eyes.

She could hear the survivors behind them, still bent on pursuit, howling and dragging themselves along on bent limbs.

It was the yellow of a dead man's eyes, a deranged human shape with bent limbs and bloated belly.

Miles pulled the bent limbs down one by one and held them under the ice water.

She moved, raised her body enough to show him her bent limb.

Mina, her red lips again as clean as those of any breathing maiden-indeed, cleaner than most-indicated the bent limbs with a subtle gesture.

The unmoving waves showed the direction of the wind that had shaped them, just as the bent limbs on the single trees.