The runesword writhed in Elric's fist and he had diffi - culty in controlling it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weird of the White Wolf]

Her interlocutor writhed, but cannily forbore argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

Suddenly I writhed, clenching my arm, and then my chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Untimely Death of the Old Forgotten Man] Reference

Each limb, each nerve was writhed by strange convulsions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference

The creature writhed in his grasp, fighting madly to escape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monster] Reference

The tall elms writhed as though taken with St. Vitus's dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference

She scratched and writhed, but the knife spun from her grasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victory] Reference

Gerald Tyler squirmed and writhed potently as the Condemned Man.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La bohème/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet] Reference

Craddock writhed, jointless as a snake, it seemed, under the grip of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

Each day drove home the lesson, until he writhed under the lash of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

A grin writhed onto his face, and broke into sudden grudging laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Your Planet] Reference

 He clutched her head with both hands and writhed like a man on fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novel excerpt: "Home Cure"] Reference

The stranger writhed and rolled till he had got rid of his heavy burden.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

They laid Mrs. Chester among those who moaned and writhed upon the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

All around them tossed and streamed and writhed long, black aprons of kelp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

They writhed about, trying to stick their sharp points into Dorothy's feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference

Fire leaped twenty feet high; in its center the great Gel bucked and writhed.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Could Be Anything] Reference

He despaired of conquering the tornado which writhed on the floor beside him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

Digger writhed vainly, his claws powerless to tear at the whip-like tentacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beast of Space] Reference

The twins writhed in their chairs as much as their tight bandings would permit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

I held the fiend's small body down all night while he writhed in fury under me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fiend] Reference

She writhed around in silent agony, till she could bear it no more and passed out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twin Moons] Reference

He writhed still when he recollected the stinging lashes of the long, serpent-like whip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference

His very soul writhed in agony to think of his bride the wife of another against her will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

It seemed as if his iron coffin was red-hot, and he writhed in all the agony of a death by fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

In spots the water was so violently agitated as to suggest that the monster writhed in a death struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omega, the Man] Reference

The victor stood panting for a little while, gazing at the conquest which still writhed and rolled on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

In an instant the meadow-born Brook writhed in pain, pressed on by thousands of Mountain-Torrents every way at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

But the next minute the head had been neatly severed by a shot and the long body writhed and squirmed on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference

From this trunk there writhed a score of long black snake-like tentacles, each terminating in a flexible three-fingered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zehru of Xollar] Reference

Twenty figures writhed in agony in so many feet, a stream of blood-soaked lads were moving slowly away towards Marcoing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

They twined themselves into tumultuous knots, writhed fiercely and uplifted a hundred hissing heads without opening their eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference

Long she waited, watching lips that writhed before speaking, eyes that seemed to ache to open and were sealed by an invisible hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference