Writhed
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A fig-seed had found foothold between two of the gigantic slabs, and, undisturbed through the centuries, had grown into an arrogant, gnarled tree, that
writhed
between the fissures and heaved the stonework apart.
More example sentences with word writhed
The frozen moss crackled beneath the heels of the crowd, while the beeches, erect in their strength, with the delicate tracery of their black branches against the white sky, neither saw nor heard the miserable beings who
writhed
at their feet.
Those poor men leaped up into the shrouds, clung to the masts,
writhed
beneath the waters.
The man moaned,
writhed
a little, and his face came into the moonlight.
As she tossed herself about in insomnia, she had seen the drowned man rise up before her; like Laurent she had
writhed
in terror, and she had said as he had done, that she would no longer be afraid, that she would no more experience such sufferings, when she had her sweetheart in her arms.
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