Throes
[θroz]
Examples
- The throes of a sort of moral earthquake were felt heaving under the hills of the northern counties. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We all stood equal sharers of the last throes of time-worn nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What Dryad was born of these throes? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I resolved to visit London, to see him; to quiet these agonizing throes by the sweet medicine of hope, or the opiate of despair. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Indisposed to hesitate, and full of impatient impulses--soul and senses quivering with keen throes--I put it back and looked in. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When, asked one of the women, will we enjoy the death throes of the red one? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Editor: Seth