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writhe
in
Ligeia
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- Yet not until the last instance, amid the most convulsive writhings of her fierce spirit, was shaken the external placidity of her demeanor.†
- A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude!†
*writhes = moves in a twisting or contorted motion
- It writhes!†
- —it writhes!†
- From out the most central recess of this melancholy vaulting, depended, by a single chain of gold with long links, a huge censer of the same metal, Saracenic in pattern, and with many perforations so contrived that there writhed in and out of them, as if endued with a serpent vitality, a continual succession of parti-colored fires.†
writhed = moved in a twisting or contorted motion
- I gazed with unquiet eye upon the sarcophagi in the angles of the room, upon the varying figures of the drapery, and upon the writhing of the parti-colored fires in the censer overhead.†
writhing = moving in a twisting or contorted motion
Definitions:
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(1)
(writhe) to move in a twisting or contorted motion -- often of a person when struggling or in pain
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)