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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.
Did a slim gentleman try to catch it, it struck him on the nose, and bounded pleasantly off with redoubled violence, while the slim gentleman's eyes filled with water, and his form writhed with anguish.
She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were dreadfully convulsed.
As he ran he jerked his hands up and down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most extraordinary contortions.
There was the huge famished brute, its black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and screamed upon the ground.
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.
For some minutes he fought and writhed, calling upon the names of many gods, striving to reach his sword, and ordering imaginary regiments to hang those white dogs to the beams of the palace gate, and to smoke them to death.
He writhed his hands together as he stood, and his features were in a perpetual jerk, now smiling, now scowling, but never for an instant in repose.
His small eyes glowed and burned with a sombre light, and his thick lips were writhed back from his teeth, which grinned and chattered at us with a half animal fury.
In vain he struggled and writhed.
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.
'Anna, Anna,' he said in trembling voice, 'Anna, for God's sake!...'But the louder he spoke the lower she drooped her once proud, bright, but now dishonoured head, and she writhed, slipping down from the sofa on which she sat to the floor at his feet.
Jane, will you marry me?"Still I did not answer, and still I writhed myself from his grasp: for I was still incredulous.
And what ailed the chestnut tree? it writhed and groaned; while wind roared in the laurel walk, and came sweeping over us.
Then he heard another snore, an old man's snore, short, laboured, andhard, his father beyond doubt; and he writhed at the idea, as if it hadbut this moment sprung upon him, that these two men, sleeping under thesame room--father and son--were nothing to each other!
He writhed in his bonds; a violent contraction of surprise and pain distorted the muscles of his face, but he uttered not a single sigh.
She approached, without uttering a syllable, the victim who writhed in a vain effort to escape her, and detaching a gourd from her girdle, she raised it gently to the parched lips of the miserable man.
She writhed on her knees, her beautiful body half naked.
That leather bed on which so many unhappy wretches had writhed, frightened her.
The priest writhed on the wet pavement, beating his head against the corners of the stone steps.
The recluse writhed her arms with joy.
He writhed his arms with agony as he thought that the woman whose form, caught by him alone in the darkness would have been supreme happiness, had been delivered up in broad daylight at full noonday, to a whole people, clad as for a night of voluptuousness.
She writhed, she made many starts of agony and despair, but the other held her with incredible strength.
He merely writhed upon the spout, with incredible efforts to climb up again; but his hands had no hold on the granite, his feet slid along the blackened wall without catching fast.