Then, as she reflected upon the terrible consequence which would ensue were she to die and make no sign, she wrung her hands despairingly, crying: "Life, lifeyes, give me life to tell her of my guilt; and then it will be a blessed rest to die.

" Mrs. Holymead wrung her hands helplessly.

They merely wring the will out of us; and well we may ask, Who would care for his life if he knew he was going to lose it on the morrow?

He caught my hand and wrung it heartily.

To an appealing and indignant letter from his sister he wrote gravely, reminding her of the difference in their years, and also that he had never interfered in her flirtations, however sorely his brotherly heart might have been wrung by them.

I took hold of his hand and wrung it fervently.

"Ho, MukyMukyRod!" In another moment the three wolf hunters were together, silently wringing one another's hands, the death-like pallor of Rod's face and the tense lines in the bronzed countenances of Mukoki and Wabigoon plainly showing the tremendous strain they had been under.

She wrung her hands together piteously.

Daaga and Ogston coolly gave their hands: Coffin wrung the chaplain's hand affectionately, saying, in tolerable English, "I am now done with the world.

And Mr. Cathro made the best of it, wringing Tommy's hand effusively, while muttering, "Fool, donnard stirk, gowk!"

But for all answer he wrung his neck with both hands so fiercely that the head was torn from the body.

After a while the word charter was applied in England to a particular document which specified certain important concessions forcibly wrung by the people from a most unwilling sovereign.

She banged at the door with all her might and main, but the lock held fast and no one came to her rescue; then she rushed to the window and threw it open; but the distance from the ground was too great for even a desperate maiden to jump, and she wrung her hands frantically.

" Mershone stopped short, seized the detective's hand and wrung it gratefully.

But Haworth, I think, would have wrung from her another and perhaps a greater.

Poor little ladies of the Orient, how hopelessly you would have wrung your henna-stained fingers!

Thou might'st have kept the timorous king in awe, But I am come myself to fetter thee!" So saying, he the hand of Rustem grasped, And wrung it so intensely, that the champion Felt inwardly surprised, but careless said, "The time is not yet come for us to try Our power in battle."

" I wrung his hand madly.

People looked at one another, and mournfully wrung one another's hands, as if in the presence, I would say, of a public calamity, were it not that these first moments of distress resembled rather the grief of a disconsolate family which has just lost the object and the mainstay of its hopes.

Onega, the Indian wife, was wringing her hands over the body of her son.

Outside, in the passage, the Maghrabis were wringing the necks of the wounded white men.

she cried, wringing her hands pitifully.

Now with veneration the case is just the opposite; it is wrung from men reluctantly, and for that very reason mostly concealed.

And to his brow a strange wreath clung, And drops of crimson hue; And his rough hands, oh, sadly wrung! Were pierced through and through.

Her whole familyall the dethroned kings and queenswent wandering about as fugitives and pariahs, banished from their country, and scarcely wringing from the clemency of those to whom they had been clement, a little spot of earth, where, far from the bustle and intercourse of the world, they might live in quiet obscurity, with their great recollections and their mighty sorrows.