At moments this mosaic fusing of contortionist-bodies seemed as a mass of amorphous human flesh, a multi-head, body, and limb monster, which choked air and breath from the bus and, worse, had the outline of Kazem.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
He watched their contortionist-twisting and the surreal images on the stage became more like flames and smoke.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
You and your mother must have thought I was some contortionist yesterday, and she extracted a hair brush from one of the shoes hanging on a hook and gave her tousled hair a vigorous punishment.
"Molly Brown's Orchard Home"
Nell Speed