Teach these pain-writhen lips once more to pray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference

He is writhen and enraged, and in his fury questions why.    From Wordnik.com.  [s a compromising situation...] Reference

She cast one timid glance toward him, then dropped her gaze, revolted at the grotesque grimaces writhen by the man's emotions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

They quickly fired the house, and thrusting away the wooden support under their feet, gave their necks to the noose to be writhen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

They lit a fire in a hollow, down among the roots of a spreading hawthorn, tall as a tree, writhen with age; but hale in every limb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

The upward-flying stream of metal had struck him on the cheek and chin, and had left him writhen and distorted there almost beyond imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

Behind them stood low crumbling cliffs, and chimneys of grey weathered stone dark with ivy; and beyond these again there rose high ridges crowned with wind-writhen firs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

His cheeks were furrowed and writhen like rain-washed crags.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English] Reference

But writhen and foul were the hands that had made it glorious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung] Reference

There was the unmistakable mark of Cain upon his writhen brow!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Missing Bride] Reference

'I'll give my father up,' returned Herrick with a writhen smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ebb-Tide] Reference

The prisoner's face was clear to see, no longer writhen and crazy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference

He gazed down on her woe-writhen face, with its closed eyes that would not meet his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Woman's Love] Reference

Goneril kept shifting about to get herself into the narrow shadow cast by the split and writhen trunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

It was my habit to sit and write there under an aged writhen tree, gray with lichen and festooned with roses.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Robin] Reference

Then the Raven thought an 'thought; an' he got very cur'ous to know why his young men died so writhen an 'twisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [How The Raven Died 1902, From "Wolfville Nights"] Reference

For all answer, a low cry, like the plaint of a broken-hearted child, issued from the leaden, writhen lips of the old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Days An Extravaganza] Reference

There was a moment of silence in which I saw George Stairs's face, white and writhen, through a mist which seemed to cloud my vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Message] Reference

But nowadays glamour suits only with serried muscles, frowns, and writhen lips; where darkness is we shudder, saying, Behold a great mystery!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference

At her word he cast his wrapping from him, and Lycabetta beheld with some irritation the twisted form and writhen features of the fool Diogenes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Proud Prince] Reference

She had turned up the light, which shone full in her face and revealed its severe beauty broken and writhen with the effort to repress her weeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete] Reference

The day after the picnic a cold autumn rain set in, and we got up to find our world a drenched, wind-writhen place, with sodden fields and dour skies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story Girl] Reference

His battle-writhen arms and mighty hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idylls of the King] Reference

Three rays of writhen rain, of fire three more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The AEneid] Reference

And writhen smile you see it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helen Redeemed and Other Poems] Reference

In writhen glory of despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Re-echo Club] Reference

Doubt loses his writhen grimace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams and Dust] Reference

But gnarled and writhen thorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

O riven lute and writhen strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams and Dust] Reference

And overhead a writhen shadow gleams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Re-echo Club] Reference

No flower their face shall be, but writhen stem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference