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  • 'Phil and I are going away. And we shan't untie you till you promise never, never to talk to us about blood and wounds unless we say you may. Come, Phil!'
      'You beast!' said Peter, writhing.   (source)
  • She was doing a lot of writhing.†   (source)
  • Even before they'd stopped writhing, the dogs were tearing at them.†   (source)
  • He was writhing and whimpering in a dark pool of his own blood when we'd gotten to him Pam had managed to triage the deep wound between his shoulder and neck, but he'd lost a lot of blood.†   (source)
  • She was bucking, her shoulders writhing.†   (source)
  • A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous.†   (source)
  • His body was sprawled and writhing at the foot of the stairs.†   (source)
  • It was a writhing mass of pure muscle, so big its tail stuck out from beneath me, pounding hard against the raft.†   (source)
  • The second officer staggered to his feet in the doorway, and Silas drove a knee into his groin, then went clambering over the writhing body into the hall.†   (source)
  • The two Specials guarding them glanced at the still writhing figure.†   (source)
  • With the three of us it should have been easy, but Lucy was writhing so that her arms and legs would slip from our hands.†   (source)
  • As they were mute there were no screams of pain and the men watched them burn and writhe and blacken in just such silence themselves and they disbanded in silence in the winter dusk each with his own thoughts to go home to their suppers.†   (source)
  • Walter would often go to extremes, stripping Edith naked and beating her until she writhed on the floor in pain while her children looked on fearfully.†   (source)
  • She wanted to see that Owens kid, who she blamed for everything that had happened to her so far, writhing in miserable agony.†   (source)
  • I walk to the center of the arena and my guts writhe as Peter comes toward me, taller than I remembered, arm muscles standing at attention.†   (source)
  • As he writhed slowly on his back near the coals, his heart pounded a steady beat like a distant drum.†   (source)
  • And though she writhed and twisted, swung her fists, and kicked her feet, she could do nothing to stop them.†   (source)
  • All we knew was that suddenly Goliath was on the floor writhing and screaming, and his right foot looked all wrong, and the Sun Valley coaches and trainer and players were sprinting across the floor.†   (source)
  • They moved as one, not so much dancing as writhing to the beat.†   (source)
  • The Darkness seemed to seethe and writhe.†   (source)
  • Her hair was moving, writhing like serpents.†   (source)
  • Lex shouted "What did you do!" but almost immediately the image came back and they could see that the raptors were caught between the bars, writhing and screaming in a hot cascade of sparks while Muldoon and the others cheered, their voices tinny over the radio.†   (source)
  • The future seemed to clamp down upon me like an iron lid, but the past dissolved beneath my feet into something writhing and fluid, and at the center of it, the most changed thing of all, was Rose herself.†   (source)
  • My mother must be writhing in her grave!†   (source)
  • Owen didn't look much like GOD'S INSTRUMENT in his fallen position—holding his knee, which he'd twisted in his fall, and writhing around on the gym floor under the basket.†   (source)
  • Oompa has sidled closer to me, right next to Nugget, who's holding on to my legs with both hands now and peeking around my hip at Tank writhing on the barracks floor.†   (source)
  • As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps.†   (source)
  • To show what a man like Hatter could do, she described the injured card soldiers writhing on the floor of Heart Palace, hands pressed against their wounds and blood pulsing out between worrying fingers.†   (source)
  • My body was writhing as if I were seized by a terrible pain.†   (source)
  • He moaned, writhing in pain on the ground.†   (source)
  • "That's what happens to deserters in my army!" he cried, and tossed the crippled figure into the grass, where it writhed grotesquely as the others fell upon it.†   (source)
  • After one shocked stare, the family downed the mess in a silence that made Kit writhe.†   (source)
  • Arya could see a wisp of grey smoke drifting up off the torch, writhing like a snake as it rose.†   (source)
  • I writhe down his body to the beat.†   (source)
  • Finnick tosses her writhing body over his shoulder and carries her out into the water and repeatedly dunks her while she screams a lot of really insulting things at me.†   (source)
  • The inconvenience of having to swarm around the writhing bodies stirred grumbles from the shoppers, and Cinder adored the children for it.†   (source)
  • Ralph twisted sideways on top of a writhing body and felt hot breath on his cheek.†   (source)
  • And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him, There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam.†   (source)
  • Tearing the snakes frantically from itself, the figure collapsed and died in a writhing heap of small serpents.†   (source)
  • Something so vile and disgusting, it would make them all blow their cookies and writhe in agony!†   (source)
  • The writhing loathsomeness of the biological order.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I swear I can feel it writhing in my veins like something spoiled, like sour milk.†   (source)
  • His moustache writhed on his lip like a threatened caterpillar.†   (source)
  • A writhing mass of painted snakes emerges on all the walls.†   (source)
  • Then the muscles began to work, began to writhe under the skin, the mouth began to tremble infirmly, the Adam's apple began to rise and fall.†   (source)
  • I couldn't rid my mind of images of her body writhing in pleasure against mine.†   (source)
  • Flames writhed inside a fireplace, before which sat a rotund woman in a wicker rocking chair-the town healer, Gertrude.†   (source)
  • Nothing stood still, no man or beast, not even the grass that writhed beneath the shadow, dark and ravenous.†   (source)
  • He writhes in pain and quickly rips them from his face.†   (source)
  • Father Hoyt was on his knees, writhing in the center of the grass carpet.†   (source)
  • The canvas overflowed with bright figures in swirling robes, writhing around long pillars and off marbled balconies.†   (source)
  • To indulge us, some of them even fell down and writhed convincingly on the Club House's vast manicured lawn.†   (source)
  • The victim writhed on the ground, holding his stomach.†   (source)
  • The tail writhes and lashes like a snake, uncoils itself, rises up off the Rat Thing's body, gets out of the way of its legs.†   (source)
  • Prepare to writhe in jealousy.†   (source)
  • He also took delight in seeing me writhe in pain, cry or cower, vulnerable to his own inflated sense of power.†   (source)
  • The flames raced the length of the lawn fabric; they sprang up to the dangling paper patterns and danced from one to the next, the patterns writhing down to ash and spitting off more flames.†   (source)
  • Tendrils and wisps of green mist gathered in Fleming's palms, then curled in ornate patterns and drifted onto the floor, where they writhed like serpents.†   (source)
  • He hit the ground, writhing, the hated metal biting deep into his skin.†   (source)
  • Women were left writhing in their blood in the summer heat, and given no help.†   (source)
  • Steam mists and writhes around the room.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza, who had never lost the timidity of a novice even in comfortable circumstances, risked a superficial caress on her neck with the tips of his fingers, and she writhed and moaned like a spoiled child and did not stop crying.†   (source)
  • But his stomach writhed at the thought of his mom knowing what he'd really done to save Clarke.†   (source)
  • The inkvine scar along his jawline writhed as he turned, casting a smile across the room.†   (source)
  • It writhes, and I tighten the grip, as one holds a serpent.†   (source)
  • A few moments later, two nurses wheeled the gurney through the curtain, and I saw Colton writhing.†   (source)
  • And she will accept the strangely pleasant sensation that comes when he writhes beneath her hand and flattens his eyes with a surfeit of sensual delight.†   (source)
  • It flew straight down from the sky in drops the size of coffee saucers and hit the hot sidewalks with a hiss that sent clouds of steam writhing up from the gleaming, dark concrete.†   (source)
  • Then all of them joined in kicking XXXXXXXXXX until he was writhing in agony on the floor.†   (source)
  • So each night, the Count's discomforts, which made Westley writhe and twist, were really sort of all right.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, Wells' passage across the courtroom toward the witness stand was oddly stealthy-as though he expected to encounter an assassin along the way-and, as he walked past Hickock, Hickock's lips writhed as he whispered a few atrocious words.†   (source)
  • She pressed her hands against the blood, because that's what you were supposed to do, wasn't it, but he writhed and screamed in agony.†   (source)
  • She writhed in agony, moaning constantly in Farsi, "I am going to die.†   (source)
  • He writhed against the glass.†   (source)
  • The rest of the midway--so recently writhing with people--was empty but for a handful of employees and a small group of men waiting to be led to the cooch tent.†   (source)
  • Falling back onto the ground his face stained with soup, the man writhed for a few seconds at the foot of the cauldron, then he moved no more.†   (source)
  • In the time it takes me to gasp, the Mask has shoved my brother's face into the sandy ground and pinned his writhing body with a knee.†   (source)
  • They were sweating together now, somewhere, writhing in sheets, bodies intertwined.†   (source)
  • With two strong fingers his father gripped the snake tightly behind its open jaw and picked it up: cool, dry, writhing like a whip.†   (source)
  • She turned to Johnnie feverishly, like a thing that writhes on the rack and seeks an easier position.†   (source)
  • I flipped through the next few, which featured a couple of group poses, Elinor writhing on the floor and, finally, Angela in the outfit I'd picked out for her.†   (source)
  • Ambiades's contempt made Sophos writhe.†   (source)
  • July quickly handcuffed Jim, who was still writhing around on the grass.†   (source)
  • Edgar hates Harry Truman, he would like to see him writhing on a parquet floor, felled by chest pains, but he can hardly fault the President's timing.†   (source)
  • With a high keening sound, Pippa falls to the floor, her body writhing and jerking in what seems like agony.†   (source)
  • Snarling through a catacomb of sculpted black and brown boulders, down in the dank recesses where sunlight rarely reached, the mud-brown Braldu looked like a writhing serpent.†   (source)
  • The image of his teacher writhing on the floor to get out of a beating made Lorenzo giggle.†   (source)
  • But Ira had the screams of dying men in his head now; his hands had held that bayonet with a struggling, writhing human impaled on it.†   (source)
  • I began to wonder: had I too, caught a butterfly who would writhe on a needle?†   (source)
  • Now her burning body writhed on the floor, reeking of spoiled meat and decay, which was all that was left of her lifeless shell.†   (source)
  • They picked a way among the trees, and their ponies plodded along, carefully avoiding the many writhing and interlacing roots.†   (source)
  • Beneath some wreckage, she saw first the broken arm, then the writhing body of her niece, her head bent back, her hair singed, both her eye sockets blown out.†   (source)
  • He was writhing and moaning as he looked at Jenks.†   (source)
  • : She writhed in his tight grasp.†   (source)
  • He wanted to do it, feel her writhing and kicking at his knees, squirming as she fought for air.†   (source)
  • He began writhing convulsively.†   (source)
  • She was soaking wet, drenched in her own sweat and writhing in pain.†   (source)
  • Angel writhed but did not wake.†   (source)
  • Something rough and writhing surged up out of my throat and I retched, and gasped convulsively.†   (source)
  • My muscles jumped, my nerves jangled, writhed.†   (source)
  • Wilbur went over backwards, writhing and twisting as he went.†   (source)
  • She writhed against him, against herself as he suckled, so gently at first it was torture, then harder, faster until she had to bite back a scream.†   (source)
  • I saw only one, my whole life, a fat gray snake writhing in the sky over the Crystal Springs community, not far from home.†   (source)
  • The killer writhed in the road, rolling over and over toward the bordering pine trees.†   (source)
  • He writhed in agony and she heard his screams of terror and pain.†   (source)
  • He rinsed each leech in a cup of water and dropped it into a leather pouch alive with writhing lobes.†   (source)
  • As a child, I so badly wanted to be with him, but watching Father's body writhe as he struggled to breathe, I so desperately wanted to flee.†   (source)
  • He looks like a colorless worm, writhing on his stomach in a synthetic tan suit with precisely matching socks, his steel glasses smashed against the pavement.†   (source)
  • The flames in the oil lamps, which had been steady, flared and writhed in the tall glass chimneys, drawn upward by a draft that Joe could not feel.†   (source)
  • Once one of the sacks writhed and wiggled its way off the wagon and into the street, but we got it back on and down the path to the Captain's dock.†   (source)
  • It leapt, writhing into the air and landed on all fours, facing me still, with its yellow eyes glaring.†   (source)
  • Max's eyes followed the brilliant oranges and yellows that writhed about the logs.†   (source)
  • After they had left, and the man was writhing on his back on the ground, the talking head laughed at him and said: 'Didn't I tell you that you would be killed by your own tongue?'†   (source)
  • The north wind gusted again, stoking the fire and sending my hair writhing in all directions.†   (source)
  • Then it flops and writhes on the glass shards, bleeding all over them.†   (source)
  • He saw a lout scurrying across a patch of lamplight, swinging a length of pipe at a wall of glass panes, battering them down with an animal relish, dancing like a gorilla to the sound of crashing glass, until three husky human figures descended upon him, carrying him writhing to the ground.†   (source)
  • For the Faun was holding both his horns with his hands as if he were trying to keep his head on by them and writhing to and fro as if he had a pain in his inside.†   (source)
  • The head dropped to the ground three or four feet away from the writhing body.†   (source)
  • But they let us writhe and maneuver like worms in a can until at last all of us could see the speaker, who stood rigidly on the table slapping his open palm with a swagger stick.†   (source)
  • As we ran I continued to blow the whistle and the quig kept writhing in agony.†   (source)
  • On the south-west corner of some charts are satyrs, hoof deep in foam, listening to the sound of the island, their tails writhing in the waves.†   (source)
  • The man fell on top of him, twitching and writhing.†   (source)
  • The girl was writhing in pain, unable to listen to me and pushing too much, pushing when she shouldn't have been, and as the precious minutes passed, the foot grew grayer and bluer and I knew I would have to open her up and lift the baby out.†   (source)
  • It writhed, dropped, rose, and fell again, catching the light like chain mail or dulled sequins.†   (source)
  • On Halloween the trick-or-treaters would have to bat their way through diaphanous veils, the older ones laughing but the younger ones on the edge of panic, particularly if the night was windy and the cheesecloth was lifting and writhing and wrapping itself around them.†   (source)
  • And now it is Odin who lies writhing in torment.†   (source)
  • The panther understood, too, for it bolted away, clearing the writhing form of Biggrin with one great bound, and charged out of the cave to give chase to the escaping verbeeg.†   (source)
  • I imagined her pulling her cotton gown close around her as she slid under the thick spread; she would lie there as still as death, eyes on the ceiling, hands on her chest, and she would not move once while waiting for my father, who tossed and turned and doodled, writhed and coughed and dreamed in his ink-stained leather chair.†   (source)
  • I just nodded as I leaned my weight over the wooden rail, trying to distract my mind from the writhing in my stomach.†   (source)
  • She peered through the tinted window, through the tinted veil of her abaya, at the madness beyond—at the severed heads on iron skewers, at the bodies writhing on crosses, at the photos of faceless women in shop windows.†   (source)
  • What was left was a molten piece of iron that looked a good bit like a noodle writhing in vacuum as various vectors. caused parts of it to go one way or another.†   (source)
  • And now, as though on cue, it all turned — in an instant — to writhing cinder.†   (source)
  • He pulled his knees up to his belly and writhed in the bed, fighting back the gagging.†   (source)
  • If not for the fifteen years of training, I would have writhed on the floor; I would have had to be held down.†   (source)
  • The creature's head was almost concealed beneath the writhing network of white, pulpy arms with which the giant squid was fighting desperately for life.†   (source)
  • Writhing inwardly as I stood there, I held my breath and listened while Nathan continued.†   (source)
  • ANNIE rises, crosses, takes her wrists, draws her resisting back to the table, seats her, and releases her hands upon her plate; as ANNIE herself begins to sit, HELEN writhes out of her chair, runs to the front door, and tugs and kicks at it.†   (source)
  • Night did not stop us, and when my eyes ached and burned from peering too long and my shoulders were side hills of pain, I pulled into a turnout and crawled like a mole into my bed, only to see the highway writhe along behind my closed lids.†   (source)
  • Pozzo writhes, groans, beats the ground with his fists.†   (source)
  • For all eternity, let his soul writhe in anguish and damnation— RACHEL No!†   (source)
  • "Who is that?" be asked, and I saw his body writhe.†   (source)
  • Though she had only one beer she looked drugged when, having stared at a succession of writhing female haunches, navels,and breasts just beyond our reach, she said, "I'm ready to go home.†   (source)
  • Luke writhed, banging the back of his head on the post he was tied to.†   (source)
  • On the rock next to hers, a mass of sunning rattlesnakes writhed and warned, coiling over each other, darting small black words.†   (source)
  • Mounted Cossacks and militiamen, leaning low out of their saddles and swinging their nagaikas, their horses writhing under them like snakes, galloped back and forth through the village, hunting for someone.†   (source)
  • She replied in kind to this constantly shifting, almost writhing pressure.†   (source)
  • He seems to be having a bad dream, and writhes in his sleep.†   (source)
  • Victor writhed forward and set his teeth into the strap of the outer door.†   (source)
  • Jock McGowan was writhing on the ground, face turned blue and gasping in the sort of paralysis induced by the poison used on darts.†   (source)
  • With heat, acid, stain, and scissors, he mutilated the game instructions; and every bum, every cut, every slash was a blow at D'Courtney's writhing body.†   (source)
  • She sat there writhing, twisting her hands.†   (source)
  • Her feet battered on the hay and she writhed to be free; and from under Lennie's hand came a muffled screaming.   (source)
    writhed = moved in a twisting motion
  • He managed to writhe over and hide his face against the wooden back of the settle.   (source)
    writhe = move in a twisting or contorted motion
  • And now again the music swells, and the dreams live, and writhe to and fro more merrily than ever,   (source)
    writhe = move in a twisting motion
  • his writhing stick.   (source)
    writhing = moving in a twisting motion
  • Roots writhed across the forest floor, making an obstacle course of bumps, knots, and loops.†   (source)
  • It was full of what looked like foot-long maggots, slimy, white, and writhing.†   (source)
  • — became a rattlesnake, which slithered and writhed before — crack!†   (source)
  • And of Alby writhing in bed back at the Homestead.†   (source)
  • The wolf writhed and fell, melting into a puddle of shadow.†   (source)
  • The great wolf followed Taha Aki's spirit as he twisted and writhed in agony through the woods.†   (source)
  • He lay on the ground, inside a small crater, writhing as he clutched his knee.†   (source)
  • Zia twisted her staff, and Serget fell sideways, writhing and smoking.†   (source)
  • This time her agonized writhing is real.†   (source)
  • The letters seemed to writhe and twist on the paper as his hand trailed to a stop.†   (source)
  • Its body tenses and it writhes in agony.†   (source)
  • Castor and Pollux carry in a writhing Peeta between them.†   (source)
  • Gore and bullets, guts and screams and writhing, but no full frontal nudity.†   (source)
  • She cries more at the thought of discovery; she writhes with humiliation.†   (source)
  • The terrifying arm writhed like an angry snake trying to seize her.†   (source)
  • On her head snakes writhed, green and thin as worms, weaving living ribbons through her hair.†   (source)
  • Her whole body writhed like a snake in its death throes.†   (source)
  • The second time he says it, a pile of wool off to his left begins to writhe and thrash around.†   (source)
  • She writhed in his hands, fought to come up, but at last was still.†   (source)
  • At the same time, she writhed sinuously for Kinet's benefit.†   (source)
  • He struck Raphael square in the chest, and the two went over in a writhing, snarling tangle.†   (source)
  • It was hissing, its front half writhing in all different directions.†   (source)
  • Then, slowly, my writhing calmed as my hand grew more and more numb.†   (source)
  • The Sleer writhed angrily, twining around the tiny chamber like ghost-smoke.†   (source)
  • I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted.†   (source)
  • In an instant the whole creature was in flames, a prancing, writhing pyre on the snow.†   (source)
  • It jabbed at a place near the roots, and at once, the writhing tree became still.†   (source)
  • He pictured Ben writhing in bed and remembered Alby's screams.†   (source)
  • I don't care," said Harry again, looking with disgust at the writhing, stamping house-elf.†   (source)
  • I can't seem tense, even though I feel like my insides are writhing within me.†   (source)
  • It writhed in the air, trying to become solid, and I felt its rage and bitterness.†   (source)
  • They lay on the floor and watched the smoke writhe across the ceiling.†   (source)
  • You don't see it writhing on the ground, perhaps, and a shadowy figure raising an axe behind it?†   (source)
  • A wretched squeal escaped his throat as he fell to the floor, writhing in a web of pure electricity.†   (source)
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