Noun : the throes of battle. From Dictionary.com.
Something was happening in the mind of the poet, the "funeral in my brain", the volcanic "throe". From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
Is there any idea how long a 'last throe' lasts for?. From Wordnik.com. [June 2005] Reference
When a throe overtook Mai, she squeezed her eyes shut. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference
The eagle trembled in its final death throe and was still. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
Dip him in beef gravy adn throe him to teh goggies owtside. From Wordnik.com. [tast de fete sez dawg - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Donut clap awn yur oen, Ladee; sumwun wil throe yu a feesh!. From Wordnik.com. [“Call da movin compuny” I ses. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
When a throe came Midwife looked at me and said, “Hold him!”. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
Too few the heroes in throe of contest that thronged to our king!. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference
But when the next throe came, Mai crouched and bent to her labor. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
The gurgling, choking death throe sights and sounds are unbearable. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: News, Bitches] Reference
And then, in the midst of the bitterest throe, came a great visioning. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
Peter felt an inward throe at these words, and a great fear seized him. From Wordnik.com. [Heidi] Reference
Cober dem in melted cheez, dip dem in catnip adn throe dem tu teh kittehs, I say!. From Wordnik.com. [Ollie was not only haunted by his last two lives, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
I looked up; but Diokles was watching the death-throe, leaning easily on his spear. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
Last throes could be a violent last throe, just as well as a placid or a calm last throe. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2005] Reference
Princess, yoo knoes hao to throe a partee! teh buffay luukz beyootiful…an teh YnNGs…yummy!. From Wordnik.com. [I don’t do Touchy-Feely - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
It was a spontaneous throe of the imagination, which had force to overpersuade the organs of perception. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
In a final throe of madness, having hacked down the fatal tree, she thrusts the knife into her own breast. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
June 19th, 2006 at 4:44 pm punaise @16, I thought you knew who lhp was, but I was throe-n by your “huh”. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Define “throes.”] Reference
June 8, 2008 at 5:32 am o i just got that rofl i was going to say throe kitten in ther say “66% reduction”. From Wordnik.com. [Color - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Saronia! it is not yet too late to withdraw and throw thyself into the mighty throe of the great world's agony. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
A pang is a paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death. From Wordnik.com. [Superexistentialism « Jahsonic] Reference
But he want be able to throe her under a bus, to the back of the bus, to the front of the bus, or in front of the bus. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate] Reference
A deskripshun ob teh mani adn varied wais kittehs can thoe tantrums, adn wich windoe tehy will throe teh tantrum thru. From Wordnik.com. […an’ shin bone’s - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Iyf awl eylse failez, tehy wil, az a groop, grabbez teh awfehndyng purrson, adn literalee throe tehm aowt ov teh poast!. From Wordnik.com. [HOLD IT!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Kemaraj is throe hours 'flight from here, so that the personage in the Rolls-Royce will reach there at ten o'clock tonight. From Wordnik.com. [The 9th Directive]
You throe one thing than another you end up with a third lose thing that is different that the first two things once the right time passes. From Wordnik.com. [Thachcaloosa High School (West Branch) Art 108 Exam Instructor Fleck PhD Thachcaloosa High School (West Branch) Art 108 Exam] Reference
Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
It was the final throe of what called itself old gentility. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Or treason to our plighted troth or causing thee a throe? '. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Dolly's heart gave a sudden leap that meant a throe of pain. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Coil] Reference
"You will not throe me off my guard thus," said Henry, sternly. From Wordnik.com. [Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader] Reference
To free himself from its iron clutch by dint of stress and throe. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
Giving my life for thy life, and breathing thine air in the death-throe. From Wordnik.com. [An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere] Reference
By many a throe of heat and cold convuls'd (by these thyself solidifying). From Wordnik.com. [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference
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