In his last book, Edwin Drood, Dickens showed that he still hated the tyranny that dwarfs and distorts the souls of children.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Miss Schley was turning upon her one of those mirrors which distorts by enlarging.
"The Woman With The Fan"
Robert Hichens
And in his feverish imagination, daily excited by facts which his terror distorts, Evsey delights in conceiving another existence, all made of love and goodness, an existence that he unceasingly opposes against the hard realities of daily life, with the stubborn fervor of a mystic.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky