Both Uses of
wrest
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- "That one, brother, he bite," she said, pointing her knuckly hand at a small tree he was wresting from his garden plot.†
Chpt 1 *
- Thanks to those remarkable men, plus others uncounted who died on the way, Angola has wrested itself free of Portugal and still owns its diamonds and oil wells.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
obtain with difficult effort or force