Which preposition to use with writhing
" The victim writhed in his chair, as the trap in which he was caught revealed itself.
As they passed, they changed their shapes a thousand times a minute, as though writhing with a strange life; and so were gone.
screamed the Boy, writhing under the Colonel's clutch.
" She turned to Johnnie feverishly, like a thing that writhes on the rack and seeks an easier position.
It was admitted by witnesses competent to form an opinion that Westley's contorted face, his troubled breathing, his manner of stepping back, and the curious writhing of his stout arms, all encouraged a supposition that he might be contemplating immediate violence upon the person of Potts.
Shoreward, with rapid blades and bright, That shower the foam-rain pearly white, And rip the waters, bending lithe, In hollowing swirls that hiss and writhe Like adders, ere they dart away Bright-spotted with the flakes of spray.
The animal rushed furiously forward two or three rods, with its head lowered as if making a lunge at an enemy, then stopped, and looked all around, standing with its back humped up, and its short stump of a tail working and writhing at a furious rate.
Where are thy flattering smiles, thy pretty kisses, And armes that wont to writhe about my necke? Man.
I'm giving you a bit of psychologyshowing you the point of view of the worm writhing beneath the boot of lordly Man.
Thousands of gay, brave, high spirited lads like Ted were mown down daily by shrapnel and machine gun or sent twisted and writhing to still more hideous death in the unspeakable horror of noxious gases.
We looked, and there they were, and Tip was crying and writhing as before.
In the shadow there no one would see me; and so, upon the hard stones, I writhed through the anguish of the fire and iceberg that made war in my heart.
She dropped at sight of it to the floor beside the couch, burying her face in its fluff, grasping it in handfuls, writhing into it.
The mysterious "knees," those strange, naked, blackened roots, so wildly gnarled and twisted about the foot of the cypress, appeared to writhe out of the swamp's awful dimness like monstrous serpents seen in a dreadful dream.
Here he would lay with ear drums bursting and writhing from the kicks and blows that had been freely given.
The goal line writhed before his dizzy sight.
A great green cable had writhed across the big wire enclosures of the giant hens' run, and flung twining leaf stems about two outstanding pines.
In a moment they had reached the mass of humanity that was writhing over him, and they began to tear them off and fling them back upon the ground with fierce rudeness.
His thrashing had been so unjustly severe, that even the granite little hearts of his sisters had been softened; and Esther, managing to secrete a cake that he loved from the tea that was lost to him, stole with it to the top of the house, where he writhed amid lonely echoes and shadows.
Who has not felt the very soul writhe within her as she has first crossed the threshold of one of these dismal antechambers of journey?
She had read in the current novels of the day how hysterically unsophisticated heroines conducted themselves in tight corners and she had followed their writhings with ill-concealed impatience.
One felt the coming crash of a catastrophe, and the presence of a villain; snake-like treason writhed during this night, and none can foresee where the downward slide of a terrible design will stop when events are on a steep incline.
Bud had drifted away from them to glut his eyes upon the picture of the snakes writhing around the charmer.
Instantly the blood froze in his veins; he stood petrified,the howlings of the wind, clanking of chains, and groans of agony, filling his ears,with his eyes fixed in terror upon the white shape rolling and plunging and writhing among the tombs.
A dull sunset lay low on the water, burning like a bale-fire through the snaky trail of smoke that went writhing past the car windows.