But Mr. mires wyped his hands on his apern & ansered the wring & it was mrs.

Thus must I now the confidence atone Thyself didst wring from me!

Now, seeing her distress, Adam all sturdy loyalty that he was, must needs sigh in sympathy, and fell, once more, to twisting his hat until he had fairly wrung it out of all semblance to its kind, twisting and screwing it between his strong hands as though he would fain wring out of it some solution to the problem that so perplexed his mistress.

He gave the old gobbler's neck a fierce wring, then dropped the turkey just in time to meet the dog.

[An Austrian physician, Dr. TERC, prescribes bee-stings as a cure for rheumatism!] How cloth the little Busy Bee Insert his poisoned stings, And kill the keen rheumatic pain That mortal muscle wrings!

And Shepherdess take heed lest you Move his willing eye thereto; Let no wring, nor pinch, nor smile Of yours his weaker sense beguile.

Will not the presence of thy friend prevail, Nor hope expel these sullen fits? Cannot mirth wring if but a forged smile From those sad drooping looks of thine?

There'll bae a sight o' nacks fer yo' t' wring, I rackon.

The following utterance of Caponsacchi, as he stands before his judges, will show the intensity and ruggedness of Browning's blank verse: "Sirs, how should I lie quiet in my grave Unless you suffer me wring, drop by drop, My brain dry, make a riddance of the drench Of minutes with a memory in each?" His lines are often harsh and dissonant.