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Example sentences for "throe"

Lexicographically close words:
throb; throbbed; throbbing; throbbings; throbs; throes; throgh; thrombi; thrombosis; thrombus
  1. I know a Mount--let there my longing brood Again, as oft my eyes--a Mount I know Where beeches stand arrested in the throe Of that last onslaught when the gods swept low Against the gods inhabiting the wood.

  2. Behold, with throe on throe, How, wasted by this woe, I wrestle down the myriad years of time!

  3. Behold, with throe on throe, How, wasted by this woe, I wrestle down the myriad years of Time!

  4. The good-night blush of eve was waning slow, And Vesper, risen star, began to throe In the dusk heavens silvery, when they Thus sprang direct towards the Galaxy.

  5. Moorea, the isle of the fairy folk, is jagged and rough, as if a new throe of earth had torn its heights and made new steeps and obelisks.

  6. Thus sang my soul, at each sharp throe Of laboring flesh and blood--"She loves me so!

  7. Ask of myself, whose form melts on the murderous wheel, What is the sin which throe and throe prove sin to the sinner!

  8. Some throe Must needs unlock love's prison-bars, let flow The joyance.

  9. One fierce throe frees the sapling: flake on flake Lull till they leave the oak snow-stupefied.

  10. Nothing to cure the wound, assuage the throe O' the sweetest lamb that ever loved a bear?

  11. Saul, swallowing a great throe of innermost Revolt that well-nigh mastered him, subscribed Himself, by silence, partner of their deed.

  12. But she was already weary and faint--fit to lie down and die, so intense had been the throe of this one struggle.

  13. Planting it in a jiffy, he scrambled up, took me under his arm, bore me down and laid me against the parapet, where at first I began to cry and then emptied my small body with throe after throe of sickness.

  14. She was startled by the throe of pitiful regret that seized her.

  15. She experienced a throe of such scorn for Loring as sickened her.

  16. And not even on the day when he had been born to her with anguish had she felt such a throe of tenderness.

  17. This coldness of what had been so warm made her realise in one sick throe that the imagination of Divinity may be abominable.

  18. His isolation from the sympathy of every person there gave me a pain and a pity, and for the first time I felt a pang of tenderness, and a throe of pride for him.

  19. Once the swinging canary broke forth into liquid warbling, as though in all the world were no throe of body or dolor of mind.

  20. Not a single throe has attended this important transformation.

  21. Another opinion might have been added, that some throe of nature has forced up parts which had been the bed of the ocean.

  22. But no; there is another throe yet--one horrible as any that has preceded.

  23. But no; there is another throe yet, one horrible as any that has preceded.

  24. The cliffs all around were tumbled about in the most chaotic confusion, as if they had been upheaved by some tremendous throe of nature.

  25. Just over his head, penetrating wood and iron, he heard the mighty throe of the Pit once more beginning, moving.


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