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Grimaces of the Weary Village by Rimaldas Viksraitis, White Space, £25 Viksraitis's photographs capture village life in his native Lithuania in all its surreal and sometimes sordid intensity.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2010

He had an excellent Hand at a Chimera, and dealt very much in Distortions and Grimaces: He would sometimes affright himself with the Phantoms that flowed from his Pencil.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Grimaces are not spiritual besides they leave lines in the face.

From The Colored Girl Beautiful by Hackley, E. Azalia

She reply'd hastily, What need all these Grimaces?

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

His Companions that came after him, jogg'd him some on one Side, and some on another, and made a hundred Grimaces to excite him to laugh with them.

From The Travels and Adventures of James Massey by Patot, Simon Tyssot de