Sentence Examples:
Heywood, still with a malicious, friendly quirk at the corners of his mouth, held in his fretful pony.
The futility of these literary quirks and graces has induced them to lay art under the same interdict with ornament.
They took a certain grim amusement in these quirks of abnormal depravity that had begun to manifest themselves in Ray.
The baby was smiling at him delightedly, with a quirk of the lips and a twinkle lodged deep somewhere in its eyes.
And the twinkle, as he talked, was back in his eyes, and the smiley quirk was at the corner of his lips.
Again she looked reproof at Holly, and again Holly's lips quirked around the stem end of his pipe.
On the way home, though, for the merest second, there recurred the puzzling quirk in her thoughtlessness.
I am acquainted with the precarious quirks of the law; I can plead causes.
He was there: his eyes gloated over the board, a malicious quirk sat astride his fat lips.
The young dandy looked at himself, and a humorous quirk twitched at the corner of his mouth.
There is something horrible in his mind, a diseased spot, an unnatural quirk, that drives him to abominable cruelties.
"If one may call the quirks of fate by the name of hoax," the stranger added.
Louis' attitude with Leo was one of winks, quirks, slaps on the back and the curving voice of innuendo.
Dorothy was silent for a moment, then a smile quirked at one corner of her mouth and a dimple appeared.
The corners of her rather large, but shapely mouth quirked in an amused half smile.
And I quirk my little finger as I drink my coffee and order Eleanor to peer without to see if my limousine waits.
One knew, from the tint of his blue eyes and the quirk of his lips, that when he spoke there would be a bit of brogue.
Bill was learning every quirk and crank of such work as he could do in Ernest's plane without leaving the ground.
Now, through a quirk of fate, the grim battle was ended; the favorite they had acclaimed was doomed.
Without waiting for permission, he springs up the stairs, and, standing on the landing, taps cautiously on the closed door, whose number (by one of those quirks of memory that furnish all our minds with insignificant facts) he has recollected.
Tip quirked a quizzical mouth.
Human nature is full of odd quirks and twists, and among other things, symptoms are misleading.
She has a mental quirk that keeps the incongruous side of life in her view practically all the time.
Now and then his nostrils twitched and fluttered; his ears quirked in constant query.
In the seat of its leaded windows even the quirk of a Latin sentence might find a meaning.
He was in and out of a fight with a quirk at the corner of his mouth, as much as to say, 'I've got the hang of this, and it's different from what I thought; but that doesn't mean it hasn't got to be done, and done in style.
The French quirk, this sir.
It is but one more injustice done by Macaulay's hasty fancy, serving well to prove what mischief may be wrought by a man who cannot deny himself the pleasure of a quirk until he has reflected what injury it may do to another's reputation.
All the rest is a quibble and quirk, of which, even without your countless benefits, I never intended to take advantage.
He knows all the new English rules and cuts, and all sorts of quirks.
Potter was in great form and quite outdid the champagne in sparkle, and we quipped and quirked till a late hour.
The old lady has had a hard time of it, good as she is, to put up with all his kinks and quirks.
They long ago studied out every quirk and wriggle of it, and capitalized it to their own purpose.
She made a clean sweep of my desk and settled herself with many quirks and little graces before the recast masterpiece.
A frog often quirks, and a toad sometimes.
He was a dwarf, full of comical movements as well as of quips and quirks.
In the curious quirks of fortune and chance which moved people across oceans and continents to play their part in the war, and finally fetched them up, in some cases, in the jobs which they most desired to fill, there are all the elements of romance.
Bedraggled, Cassidy headed for the ship, wondering what sort of meteorological quirk he had encountered.
He was full of quirks and idiosyncrasies.
A half humorous little quirk had taken the place of the ugly droop.
When it is proved to us that matter does not 'exist,' we recognize a quirk or conceit in the use of the verb 'to exist.'
The Goat Girl ran her rubber fingers curiously along the curve in the Ox's left horn and then, with one of her sudden and kind-hearted impulses, tried to straighten the quirk with a quick twist of her wrist.
A fire burned dully in a large grate, round which were seated, shoulder to shoulder, half a dozen young "quirks".
At any rate, the only way to find out is to send up another man in another rocket and hope he doesn't report the same thing; if he does, we'll just blame it on one of his psychological quirks, and try again.
And there were peculiar little quirks and twirls that made it impossible for the note to be a forgery.
It's a queer quirk in us mercantile folk.
Through some phenomenal human quirk, every other sucker in between thought it was addressed to him.
Suddenly, prompted by some impish quirk he shouted to his bizarre audience, "Hello there."
Then his lips quirked into a toothless smile, and he started to say something.
The old Martian gave a quirk of a smile as if faintly amused by Jim's impetuosity.
His lips quirked into a tight smile, and his exulting keen eyes took in the cave's glittering expanse.
Her head gave a little modest toss, her fine white teeth caught her lower lip with a little quirk of humor; for she could see that he was a gentleman, and that she was safe from anything that might trouble her.
Touchstone, with unfailing loyalty, follows his master with quip and quirk into exile.
The quirk about the lips seemed to execute a little caper.
This was distinctly Jack, the pout, the quirked smile and the final smack of her rather boyish lips.
It is like a quirk of gluttony just rousing from the torpor of satisfaction.
In a moment her mouth took a comically benevolent quirk.
To them a quirk in the sense is as profitable as a pun or a quibble in the sound.
Lilly would turn a quirking but disapproving eye upon her mother.
Her glance slanted toward him, full of quirks.