Writhing

Examples

• Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was suspended on the edge of a void, writhing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And then--' 'There's a bicycle coming,' he said, writhing under her loud denunciation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If this bursting heart, this writhing lip speak not, leave me to the fate I deserve, and which I shall meet undismayed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I lowered my lamp, and saw a negro half clad, writhing under the agony of disease, while he held me with a convulsive grasp. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was writhing with inward merriment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• For a moment Gilchrist, with upraised hand, tried to control his writhing features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I have felt like one of those poor rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• For a minute or more the hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• In another instant you will be smitten down, writhing to your death in horrible agony. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The poor moth, when writhing in torture of its own seeking, how often and how easily I have put at rest! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He advanced towards Oliver, as if with the intention of aiming a blow at him, but fell violently on the ground: writhing and foaming, in a fit. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It is,' cried the girl, writhing in agony of her mind; 'I cannot leave him now! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• In an instant the brute was upon me, but ere it could fasten its hideous mouths into my breast and throat I grasped a writhing tentacle in either hand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Eyes, ears, arms and legs were pierced; every inch of the poor writhing body that did not cover a vital organ became the target of the cruel lancers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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