All 3 Uses of
writhe
in
The Scarlet Letter
- A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight.†
Chpt 3
- It now writhed in convulsions of pain, and was a forcible type, in its little frame, of the moral agony which Hester Prynne had borne throughout the day.†
Chpt 4 *
- His first care was given to the child, whose cries, indeed, as she lay writhing on the trundle-bed, made it of peremptory necessity to postpone all other business to the task of soothing her.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(writhe) to move in a twisting or contorted motion -- often of a person when struggling or in pain