Among your wry-necked people I pass for one of the handsomest.
“You reminded me just now, my pal, of wry-necked Charley the boshomengro” (fiddler).
This, as the wry-necked man had said, admitted of a possible resurrection.
Three or four couple was dancin', but none o' them was wry-necked enough to get the proper pose.