Wrenched

Examples

• In saying what he said then, he never looked at her; but looked at it and wrenched at it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And the words were wrenched from him with a groan, which made his brother start. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And I assure you it wrenched the imagination to see tidy nursemaids wheeling perambulators and children playing diavolo on the very square where Bloody Sunday had gone into history. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The powdered mortar from under the stone at which he wrenched, rattled on the pavement to confirm his words. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A pang of tameless grief wrenched every heart, a burst of despair was echoed from every lip. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Her hair was falling over her shoulders; her gown was torn where Rawdon had wrenched the brilliants out of it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In short, I turned over on my face when I came to that, and got a good grasp on the hair on each side of my head, and wrenched it well. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mrs. Thornton wrenched it away with no gentle hand. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He had bounded across the room and had wrenched a small phial from her hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• After that the dipper stayed in its place under penalty of a wrenched arm for moving it without first disconnecting the battery. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The second corps soon followed; and the outer works of Petersburg were in the hands of the National troops, never to be wrenched from them again. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Having once caught the bridle, he mastered it directly and sprang to his saddle; grimacing grimly as he made the effort, for it wrenched his sprain. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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