It was not enough to eject him from office,his inability to subscribe the test oaths would have done so much,but he was to be replaced by that one of his political and literary antagonists whom he most sincerely disliked, and who still writhed under his lash.

" Armida writhed and wailed; Rinaldo nevertheless raised his sword, and it was coming against the tree, when her shape, like a thing in a dream, was metamorphosed as quick as lightning.

It writhed and groaned, while the wind roared in the laurel walk.

On the low line of these works, dimly seen in the thicket, rested the muzzles spouting flame; from the depths rose cheers; charges were made and repulsed, the lines scarcely seeing each other; men fell and writhed, and died unseentheir bodies lost in the bushes, their death-groans drowned in the steady, continuous, never-ceasing crash.

The slight tree writhed and quivered about the roots.

Took it up, writhed off the track, tumbled down the banking, hid her face in a drift, and crouched there with the cold drops on her face till the hideous, tempting thing shot by.

To be laughed atFutteh Ali Shah, who was wont to lord it among his friends, writhed under the mere possibility.

He had used it in the company of just such youths as those who sat next to him now, and he writhed in his seat as he imagined how they must have laughed at him in their hearts.

He still kicked and writhed; when the gentlemen with the hog-spears advanced, and fixed him, while the natives finished him, by beating him on the head with hedge-stakes.

The long brown body writhed about his wrist, with rattles clashing.

As if a poniard had thrust her to the heart, she writhed under this unexpected stroke; she felt, and she expressed anguish.

She writhed in his powerful grasp, while shriek after shriek died away in heart-rending moanings; and yet the inhuman demon continued to beat her, though her pleading cries had ceased, until obliged to desist from the exhaustion of his own strength.

The blockhead did not seem to understand that he was lost more certainly than I. I writhed back in the darkness, and seizing him by the throat, I struck him twice with my iron bar.

I was no sooner within the confines of heaven, than my life seemed to be departing from me, and from the violent pains and anguish which seized my head and body, I threw myself prostrate on the ground, where I writhed about like a snake when it is brought near the fire.

Rank poison vines writhed everywhere, and crept like vipers beyond the deadly borders of the great Cypress Swamp.

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

Mrs. Egg writhed and recoiled from duty.

The boy dropped the oars and writhed to starboard, his neck askew at an eldritch angle, his eyes glaring upward.

" The serpent looked at the poised egg, and he trembled and writhed so that his black scales scattered everywhither scintillations of reflected sunlight.

This greenness shifted and writhed and increased in the heart of the fire, and out of the fire oozed a green serpent, the body of which was wellnigh as thick as a man's body.

He, who was familiar with pigs, could see that this was a black pig, caked with dried curds of the Milky Way; its flesh was chill to the touch, like dead flesh; and it had long tusks, which possessed life of their own, and groped and writhed toward Manuel like fat white worms.

But Rafael writhed angrily at her resistance.

" The patient writhed, hesitated, and then replied with some confusion, "If it's all the same to you, William Carley, I think I'd sooner be alone with Mr. Pivott.

Kieff writhed this way and that, but he never escaped the swinging blows.

"There is none for me, madam," he said, with a curious writhed smile.