"Then I must die," he groaned, and wrenched his hands away from that perilous boundary.

Soon after they arrived at the Continental Film Company's plant Maud had wrenched her ankle by stumbling over some loose planks which had been carelessly left on the open-air stage, and she was now lying upon a sofa in the manager's room with her limb bandaged and soaked with liniment.

I cried, wrenching my arm from his with an effort, 'if I should live a hundred years.' 'A hundred years,a drop in the bucket!'

His two guards soon came to blows with one another about a heavy gold cross which they had found on the person of their captive, and, while they were thus quarrelling, Hunyady suddenly wrenched a sword out of the hand of one of the two Turks and cut off his head, upon which the other took to flight, and Hunyady was again free.

On the sill of this window Marcos had stood to wrench apart the bars of the window immediately overhead, through which he had lifted her one cold nightyears and years ago, it seemed.

And then another man cried out, stooped, wrenched the gun from the limp hand of Donnegan and opened the cylinder.

There Quentin Durward had been nodding at his guard in the castle, and the evil-faced little king had just sprung out and wrenched the weapon from the hands of the sleepy boy.

I wrenched my head 'round, quickly, and saw one of those monstrous, pallid faces close to mine.

A rough hand wrenched my shoulder and took the meat from me!

As he fumbled the lock, a gust of wind came along, wrenched the door from his hand and swung it open.

"Ach!" gasped the German; "you would shoot me, would you?" He wrenched the pistol from De Chauxville's fingers and threw it into the corner of the room.

The midshipman, like a flash, wrenched the cane from the other's hands and began to lay it lustily about him.

When things had reached such a pass as this Molly would generally interfere to protect her foster-son, and then she and Tom would together fight the old man until they had wrenched the stick or the strap out of his hand.

With a knife I tested the resistance of the mortar, breaking the point of the blade, yet detaching quite a chunk, and wrenching out one small stone.

He issued a rigorous fugitive-serf law, and even wrenched liberty from certain free peasants who had entered service for wages before his edicts.

He struggled to free his pinioned arms, to wrench off the death-grip at his throat, but his efforts were like those of a child against a giant.

A gentle motion, but it wrenched the heart of Donnegan.

interrupted Kansas Casey, giving the handcuffs an expert twitch that wrenched a groan out of McFluke.

Mercy's face contracted, as if a sharp pain had wrenched every nerve.

Bill wrenched the knife from his grasp and drove it through the heart of the outlaw.

"The subject was to be Hercules wrenching the lion's mouth.

Wringing her hands as if she would wrench her fingers from their sockets, she clutched at her long white hair, and, rocking to and fro, moaned, "Woe is me, and woe the day when I was born!

"Ah, Willow," AhnRee said, wrenching his eyes from Amber who was becoming ever more elusive, more of a muse.

Carlyle immediately hurried to the room where his wife was receiving a visitor, and tragically asked what he had done to cause the Almighty to send a German all the way from Weimar to wrench off the handles of his cupboard doors.

The impetus of the limousine broke it, but not before it had slewed the car off toward the ditch, wrenching the wheel out of the driver's hands.