Anybody 'ud think you hadn't common sense," he replied with perfect good nature, and as heartily loving a tone as if he had been feasting on her beauty, instead of writhing inwardly at her ugliness, "All right, Marty,all right.

Limbs broke under the two hundred pounds of weight; the bark was torn under slipping paws, but upward the sinuous body writhed.

His body writhed horribly; he kicked and snapped and quivered.

The king expressed great pleasure at the conclusion; but envy and suspicion lurked in his breast, and writhing internally like a serpent, he still delayed fulfilling his promise to invest Isfendiyár, upon the overthrow of Arjásp, with the sovereignty of Irán.

Sivert writhed uncomfortably.

The Ford writhed forward hideously in its death agony.

She flung herself into his arms, she buried her dishevelled head upon his breast; she clung to him with hands that writhed convulsively in her agony.

He was writhing strenuously in order to frustrate Mr. Wilks's evident desire to arrange him comfortably for the administration of the stick he was carrying.

Instantly it writhed impotently.

As the three stood side by side looking out of the window they saw the serpent of fire, that rope-coil of tapers that, stretching round the entire Place, humped over the flights of steps and the platforms set amongst the churches, writhes incessantly on itself.

The supple fingers of the mute writhed inquiringly.

Many were held up by a thin thong round the stomach, writhing madly to get free.

"You want to see me?" "I did" She was writhing piteously in the trap.

He positively writhed with irritation.

He had assumed an ill-fitting suit of store clothes, in which he unaccustomedly writhed, and evidently, to judge from the sleekness of his hair, had recently plunged his head in a pail of water.

I could imagine well the fiendish delight with which he had seen me day by day writhing uncomplainingly beneath the unexplained and as I had deemed unsuspected alienation of Wentworth, the cause of which his act had wrapped in mystery!

Silence fell upon the banquet-hall, where still the thin, perfumed incense-smoke writhed aloft and where still the motionless Maghrabi men stood in those ominous lines along the silk-tapestried walls.

At last that portion of the rope which lay in the garden began to jerk and writhe vigorously.

But Rafael writhed angrily at her resistance.

As he lay, moaning and writhing backwards and forwards, the convulsions of his legs, the twisting of his fingers, and the shiverings that ran through his frame were terrible.

Mile-wide, brimful, head-on and boiling and writhing twenty fathoms deep, you could easily have seen, that afternoon, why its turfed levee had to be eighteen feet high and broad in proportion.

Another went Down his deep throat, and dreadfully he writhed.

There was a shrill scream, and, as the smoke cleared away, I saw that it had turned on its back, and was writhing, feebly.

Ghostly fingers of mist writhed over the peak; darkness was not far distant.

I shall never be better," said Susanna, writhing impatiently.