Quotations

* 1899 - , The Memoirs of Victor Hugo *: Amid a thick, bristling beard, a nose like an owl's beak and a mouth whose corners were drawn by a wild-beast-like rictus were just discernible. * 1916 - , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man *: A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces. * 1990 - , Nothingface *: Valves plugs pumps to erase/ rictus from my face. * 1993 – , Episode 3, Level 9 , after defeating Hitler *: The absolute incarnation of evil, Adolf Hitler, lies at your feet in a pool of his own blood. His wrinkled, crimson-splattered visage still strains, a jagged-toothed rictus trying to cry out. Insane even in death. Your lips pinched in bitter victory, you kick his head off his remains and spit on his corpse. * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 56 *: It squinted at her through the hated light, its brow a rictus of pain and fear. * 2008 — , Star Wars: The Force Unleashed , p 81 *: The apprentice watched his Master, pain twisting his features into a rictus .