Finally, we succeeded in wresting the knife from her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Molly of Scotland Yard] Reference

Will other candidates use footage of Linda in wresting skits in negative ads against her?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A cage match in Connecticut] Reference

Coach Isiah Thomas reminded everyone that Indiana had succeeded in wresting away home-court advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Nets refind playoff drive] Reference

They were not, however, content, but aimed at wresting from the Portuguese almost the only trade which remained to them; viz. their trade with China.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] Reference

But secretly, the idea of wresting the house from James and his son had begun to take hold of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

10Colonial farmers succeeded in wresting control of this land and its resources from hunting and herding Khoisan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference

He delighted in the idea of wresting power from the hands of his country’s magnates and placing it in a custody which was at any rate nearer to his own reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barchester Towers] Reference

But here, again, it would be a manifest "wresting" of the words to make them apply to a case which we have no proof that the Apostle had in contemplation when he uttered them.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

Hey i JUST heard someone on duelboard.com that they saw a cloverfield tv spot on TNN during some kind of wresting show.    From Wordnik.com.  [MySpace Update - Rob, Beth, and Lily] Reference

Corsica, and succeeded in wresting it from the Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

Man is seen wresting from her stone and precious metals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts] Reference

And als ye have, be your fals doctryne and wresting of Godis worde.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference

Grattan and his supporters in wresting the impossible Constitution of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference

This is doctoring at its most basic, wresting people back from death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back From the Dead] Reference

Ours was now the coveted honor of wresting it from his grasp, once and for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greater Love] Reference

Such a child knows not the joy of sharing; he knows only the joys of wresting victory against odds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study of Child Life] Reference

Slowly but surely, companies like Apple and Google are wresting control away from the mobile carriers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buh-Bye, Wireless Guys] Reference

General Isaac Brock, the Governor of Upper Canada, in the task of wresting the Northwest from the Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

"Fort Sanders" by the Federals, in honor of the brave commander who fell in wresting it from the Confederates.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference

He crossed the Pyrenees, and succeeded in wresting from the Moslems all the northeastern corner of the peninsula.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

They were, for the most part, busy farmers wresting a home from the wilderness, a task which left them little idle time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Followers of the Trail] Reference

Sometimes it riseth from a lucky Hitting upon what is Strange; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious Matter to the Purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)] Reference

They came every night, wresting me away from a warm, comforting sleep into a series of wretched, tormenting, wide-awake dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reducing The Stigma Of PTSD In Army Culture] Reference

Hsi Jen and Tzu Chüan were on the point of wresting it from her, but she had already managed to mangle them into several pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

As Keela knew the trail, so surely from the rank, tropical vegetation of the great Southern marshland she knew the art of wresting food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane of the Green Van] Reference

The second half of the same century found them in Europe, wresting province after province from the feeble hands of the eastern emperors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Predators who once reaped their rewards from exotic loans are now focused on wresting wealth from vulnerable seniors,  the report concludes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Reverse mortgages could be next financial fiasco] Reference

Such a power would have been used, not for the benefit of England or Scotland, but as an instrument for wresting further concessions for Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference

  I believe myself to be neither on the prowl, as they say, nor capable of wresting arduous effusions from the most coquettish, sullen-faced girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Being with Thin Girls] Reference

Hamas has ruled Gaza since seizing power in 2007, wresting control from their Fatah rivals of the internationally backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israeli Airstrike Kills Senior Hamas Rocket Maker] Reference

University, which ultimately succeeded in wresting the right of licensing grammar masters from the Archdeacon or other official to whom it naturally belonged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Medieval University] Reference

But then neither does Boyle covering a song about a speed user and former electro-shock patient wresting one day of fleeting pleasure from his married ex-girlfriend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lou Reed, SuBo and Simon Cowell: pop's unlikeliest threesome] Reference

Doubtless he had come to realize that the wresting operation demanded all his powers; but his silence was easily made to appear of more significance than it deserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

The origin of this festival is supposed to have been in 607, when Phocus, the emperor, wresting the Pantheon from the heathens, gave the splendid edifice to the Christians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

By the mid-1980s, McMahon's scorched-earth tactics had winnowed the field of big-time wresting promoters to the WWF and a limping circuit called the National Wrestling Alliance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why America's Hooked On Wrestling] Reference