make a wry face
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History already has come to make a wry face on tasting the wine from N�rnberg's chalice.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Mr. Hoover summons France to execute herself as he would summon Nicaragua," observed L'Ere Nouvelle, "and yet the whole world is astonished because we make a wry face!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Asked his opinion of the New Deal, its first victim could only make a wry face and helplessly wave his big paw in the air.
From Time Magazine Archive
You’ll make a wry face upon six-water grog, to-morrow, at seven bells.
From Peter Simple by Marryat, Frederick
You'll make a wry face upon six-water grog to-morrow, at seven bells.
From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Marryat, Frederick
