The cord twisted itself and cut a thin red line in her brown flesh.

Skilled men, veterans of many campaigns, each wore the red cord twisted around his warrior braid.

By firelight, the cords of his neck twisted in bold relief at the open throat of his tunic as he took two goblets from the high mantel and offered one to Conall.

The left wall of the cab opened and a picphone slid out, cord twisted in a baroque 1oop.

There were delicate tiny baskets with dyed quill designs, small leather bags embroidered with mollusk-shell beads, and cords twisted and knotted into patterns.

Her umbilical cord twisted around itself too tightly.

Three times Sam struck with all his force, and at last one single cord of all the countless cords snapped and twisted, curling and whipping through the air.

Tavish saw that the cord twisted its way down toward the Darkwell, winding its way across the surface of the water to touch a point near the middle of the well.

Instead of opening into a supporting mattress shape it streamed flat and fouled, its cords hopelessly twisted.

I followed his example until together we had achieved two sets of mats, four in all, thick as the width of my thumb, and some rough cords also twisted out of leaf fibers.