A fall or a blow may bring such a sudden wrench or twist upon the ligaments as to force a bone out of place.

At these words he turned his head toward Don Juan with a violent wrench.

[Footnote 28: "The simple undoubting faith which for ages has been the support and consolation of a large portion of mankind, especially of the weak, the humble, the unlearned, who form an immense majority, cannot disappear without a painful wrench, and leaving for a time a great blank behind."

There was a sharp wrench, an odd crack, a grunt from Uncle Pros, and then the mountaineer sprang to his full and very considerable height with a roar.

Some copying-presses have a screw so accurately turned and so well oiled, and handles so massively like a fly-wheel, that a touch will send the handles whizzing round and round till they stop suddenly, and then one slight wrench more, and the letters are duly copied!

" "And all because I didn't put that little wrench where it belonged!

With one desperate wrench she broke away, and by the light of the grinning jack-o'-lantern saw who was her captor.

"Or Sullivan, who has got into one of his infernal scrapes," muttered Dalrymple, with a determined wrench at his moustache.

There, I thought so," as an excruciating wrench forced the stubborn fist to yield.

The Master gave her all the lift the farthest wrench of the levers would thrust on her.

What a fearful wrench to his mind and his heart; what a humiliation to his self-conceit, to have to change his mind once for all on all matters in heaven and earth.

It was a horrible wrench at last to leave wife and children.

He rose to his feet, lifting the man with a jerking wrench, and swung him round.

He reached up, grasped the bamboo rungs, hoisted with an acrobatic wrench, and began to climb cautiously.

That mighty wrench of back and shoulder and arm would have broken the jaw of an ordinary horse; it hardly disturbed Diablo.

The girl seized a small nickled wrench out of the Golden Butterfly.

As if it were part of the leaping forward of her imagination, she suddenly started the car again, and with a whirling, reckless wrench at the steering-wheel she had turned the car about and was racing back over the road they had come.

There was a severe wrench.

He experienced the flash of unconsciousness; becoming aware of it, in midair, as his relaxed body was sinking to the ground and as he caught himself together, he stiffened his muscles with a spasmodic wrench, and escaped the fall.

As if the solution of continuity had been a call to arouse her, Elinor freed her hand with a swift little wrench and sat bolt upright in her corner.

were hoisted with a terrified wrench of the shoulders, in the same moment that hind-legs went down as by suction.

Suddenly the weight of Allan's body was hurled against him; strong supple fingers closed upon his neck, and with an unexpected wrench Jack McMillan's head was buried in a drift of soft, deep snow.

But at last, with a vigorous wrench, Jarvis held the yielding door under his hand.

Her father and her mother gave; her girl friends gave; Miss Trixie Spring, Arabel Waite, Delia, little Arctura, the home-servants, gathered in the door-way, all gave; Miss Craydocke, crying, and disdaining her pocket-handkerchief till the tears trickled off her chin, because she was smiling also and would not cover that up,gave; and nobody gave with a more loving wrench out of a deep heart, than bluff old frowning Marmaduke Wharne.

Whatever might be at the end, it was now an agonising wrench to part from the English body, to part from the numbers of friends whose loyalty was immovable, to part from numbers who had trusted and learned from him.