"Writhe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dyspepsia have arisen from its smoky depths, like the ghost from witches' caldrons! The fizzle of frying meat is a warning knell on many an ear, saying, "Touch not, taste not, if you would not burn and writhe!" ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
... the block, the quick tramp of feet, a strangling cry, and Job the quartermaster was snatched aloft to kick and writhe ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol
... call her to account. "Look, oh look!" cried Bertalda, eagerly and angrily, "how the poor bright water curls and writhes, because you would deprive it of every gleam of sunshine, and of the cheerful faces of men, whose mirror it was created to be!" In truth, the spring did writhe and bubble up wonderfully, just as if someone were trying to force his way through; but Undine pressed them the more to dispatch the work. Nor was there much need to repeat her commands. The household ...
— Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • Various
... beheld each of my faults, appeared to flow towards me from out of the temptations with which he was encircled. During this time my eyes were fixed upon my Heavenly Spouse; with him I wept and prayed, and with him I turned towards the consoling angels. Ah, truly did our dear Lord writhe like a worm beneath the weight of ...
— The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Anna Catherine Emmerich
... hawk-bells, golden harp notes through the forest; and the usurping wistaria assumes the purple, reigning imperial and alone, flaunting its palidementum in a cascade of lilac amid the matrix of the mosses. Its sleek, muscular vine-arms writhe round the clasped bodies of live oaks as if two lovers slept beneath a cloak, and the cloisonne pavilion of their dalliance drips ...
— Carolina Chansons - Legends of the Low Country • DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen
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