The very low temperature of the atmosphere and the Distorting, twisting mirage effect of different strata of air, with radically different temperatures, wherein each stratum has a different density, carry different quantities of frosted humidity.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
It was a novel about sailors and the sea, of all things in the world, and Captain Meredith had been so intrigued with the notion of a story written about sailors without Distorting them out of all recognition that he couldn't keep it to himself.
"Command"
William McFee
His revelation of cruel tyranny, of will breaking, of cramming, of dwarfing of individuality, of Distorting of imagination, of harshness, of lack of sympathy, of evil in a hundred hideous forms, made men more conscious of their corresponding opposites than attempts to reveal these opposites by direct effort could have done; and in addition it stirred in human hearts everywhere the determination to remove or remedy the wrong.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes