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The dancers writhed, wrapped in yards of cloth on top of rostra that made them look like some kind of pole dancer.
She squirmed and writhed and twisted, genuinely this time, but she was small anyway, and Sarah was strong, and so she wasn't going anywhere.
She squirmed, writhed, and wriggled, trying to evade the grip of those carrying her.
The Scot writhed and wiggled as much as his constraints would allow, trying to escape.
He clutched my upper sleeve tightly and writhed in his agony for a while before finally stammering a few words.
His other arm held her remaining hand to the wall also, and she writhed, kicking weakly at him.
Flocks of terns and cormorants fished offshore, while fronds of kelp writhed in the surf like the flailing arms of sea monsters.
The entire sky writhed in agony above him, split by gigantic forks of lightning flashing between the clouds.
Stretching along the front of the stall was a tank of murky water in which a tangle of long, dark eels writhed.
They were told of how these sinners writhed and danced to their wicked music in an unholy reverence to their false idol.
Rakael struggled violently, metal clashing with metal as she writhed, spreadeagled on a rough block of stone.
His soul cried out in protest at the very thought, yet even as it did, another part of him writhed in self-contempt.
The ensuing horn blast was loud enough to stun even the Elves, who immediately clapped their hands over their ears and writhed in discomfort.
A log in that unsightly pile writhed as if it were already on fire, though the flames had not quite reached it.
Taibhsear watched in awe as the great body writhed and twisted, and a new egg fell to join the others.
Evelyn's body writhed, trying to escape her sister's insane tickling motions.
She writhed on the ground until medics came rushing to her aid.
As I writhed to get away from them, two more put their hands inside me the same way.
At their feet, a man writhed as he clutched a wound in his belly from which a steady stream of blood trickled through his fingers.
My whole body contracted and writhed with fear at thought of the impending collision, yet the contraption sped on, through me, and I felt it not.
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But all eyes were fixed on Zahra, who writhed into wilder and wilder turns.
The condemned man took 34 minutes to die, during which he grimaced and writhed, suggesting acute agony. The problem can, however, be fixed.
She let out a mighty wail from the pain, and writhed around on the ground.
I twisted and twitched and writhed, but they wouldn't let me go.
Harden, visibly in pain, writhed on the floor as World Peace was ejected from the game.
The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.
To the attics where thin pink salamanders writhed through crushed red Xmas balls and turned all silver and red and Xmassy.
It was a limbless thing, with a horrible face, that writhed along the ground in a serpentine fashion.
Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium writhed in the throes of Anarchy, while Russia, watching from the Caucasus, stooped and bound them one by one.
When Clayton Lockett, a convicted murder in Oklahoma, was given a cocktail of potassium chloride, midazolam and vecuronium bromide in April 2014, he writhed and groaned in pain, dying from a heart attack 43 minutes later.
Down on the mat, Atticus Lish writhed out of a choke hold.
Mr Zheng has found that deep alluvial beds in the Yangzi's middle course carried the zirconium signature of modern Yangzi sediment even 23m years ago. During its life, the Yangzi has writhed around.
Rustu came charging out of his goalmouth to join a ruck of protesting players who had surrounded Mols as Johnson writhed on the turf.
Even as the accused testified on the witness stand, the girls and young women who had accused them writhed, whimpered, and babbled in the gallery, seemingly providing evidence of the spectre's demonic presence.
It writhed and squirmed, as if attempting to rise from the dead.
In the back of the car, her neighbor shouted and writhed in pain.
Snakes hung on his neck and arms and writhed through his belt loops.
The earth shook itself like an animal on whose back a predator has lodged. It spasmed, curvetted, tossed and writhed, to throw that malignity from its shoulders.
She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
Examples from Classical Literature
For a second I writhed, then the muscles of my back responded, and I felt them ridging and swelling in resistance.
The cigarette end dropped, the thin pyjama'd figure writhed up and stood clutching at the bedrail.
Tendrils projected from all parts of it, pallid and twisting lengths that writhed slowly with snakelike life.
Red clover bent and writhed in the artificial wind from the ornithopter wings.
His face was aflame with joy, and he writhed and shook like one who hath a devil.
I writhed and squirmed and made every use of the law of conservation of angular momentum until I had my back to Nelly.
Steve writhed as though, literally, the eyes were cold steel and had pinned him down.
It crisped and sparkled, and sent out a pungent odor, then turned and writhed between his fingers, like a living thing in pain.
Far across the mesa a dust devil spun up and writhed away toward the distant hills.
The small object he'd dropped from the ejector tube now swelled and writhed and struggled.
Here and there fire hose, like a thousand entwined serpents, writhed and twisted.
Dennis had the gaiter undone in a moment, and Bob writhed as his brother felt the injured limb.
Mackenzie writhed and struggled, groping on the floor for something to strike Carlson with and break his garroting grip.
He writhed and twisted like a limbed snake, and bit and tore with teeth and hands.
A solid wall of water, in which writhed dozens of tentacled monsters, was upon us, and we had time for nothing but action.
Poor Jed, miserable and most unreasonably conscience-stricken, writhed in his chair.
They were the nests of the Keeper's tentacles, and out from them the whiplike tendrils uncoiled, shot out and writhed toward us.
Gore could not see, but as he writhed he knew he was in the grip of the pirate captain.
Manacled, bound down by the fiery bands of his malady, he writhed, as upon a Procrustean bed.
The undertow writhed about their legs, jerked at them wrathfully.
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It writhed away from the mast, and for a moment overhung the captain like some threatening portent.
Along the bottom, between the curious mounds, writhed a wormlike thing.
The enemy collapsed at his feet and writhed helplessly on the floor.
There was a crackling, and the long, spidery limbs quivered and writhed.
His insides writhed with helplessness and the imminence of a crash.
As he ran he jerked his hands up and down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most extraordinary contortions.
The thing in the coffin writhed, and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips.
He writhed as he spoke, and for an instant his features were distorted.
They quivered and trembled and writhed as though they were still in torment, a supposition to which the unending scream gave a horrible credence.
One of the octopi writhed past him and darted onto the depth charge.
He writhed and roared in his anguish of both flesh and spirit.
Now and then her figure writhed with a slow, snakelike motion.
The mother writhed in uneasy slumber, her chest wheezing as if she were in the agonies of strangulation.
Even the puling creature writhed under the lash of Mary's tones.
Philip writhed under that despotism which never vouchsafed a reason for the most tyrannous act.
He writhed and wriggled under the infliction, but, fully convinced of my skill, endured the pain like a martyr.
He clinched his hands, and writhed from side to side of his chair in an agony of indecision.
A crooked smile, like a Malay crease, writhed across the face of one of the women.
There did Meriones transfix him, and he writhed convulsively about the spear as some bull whom mountain herdsmen have bound with ropes of withes and are taking away perforce.
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.
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The man moaned, writhed a little, and his face came into the moonlight.
The messenger boys' wounds were always conveniently placed and they never screamed and writhed or prayed for morphia when they were being bandaged.
She left the room as she spoke, her features writhed into a sort of sneering laugh, which made them seem even more hideous than their habitual frown.
