All 3 Uses
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Year of Wonders
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- You know that many backs broke to wrest that soil from clutching root and stubborn stump; you know that hands bled, dragging forth the rocks that sit arrayed now as the fencesthat mark out worked land from wilderness.†
Chpt 6 *
- And then I chopped again, bundles of roots wrested out of the frosty ground.†
Chpt 10
- Let us leave this place, for no good can be wrested from him in this state.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(wrest) obtain with difficult effort or force
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)