But how to wrest the body of his victim from the feeding lion was the first question to be solved.
Numgo, overhearing Tarzan's questions, managed to wrest his attention long enough from the diversion of flea hunting to advance the theory that the power which made the lightning and the rain and the thunder came from Goro, the moon.
The wisdom of his advice was dawning upon them, but at first they had been carried away by the new idea--the idea of following up an enemy offender to wrest his prize from him and punish him.
Now let me wrest myself free, and you must chase me.
The Aurungpore cup was now in the mess-room of the 193rd, and strenuous efforts were to be made to wrest it from the regiment.
What did the Mohammedans of Arabia wrest from the empire?
Turn to another State (Massachusetts), which sometimes is thought to lead all the rest in moral ideas, and see the same party fighting neither for this principle nor any other, but simply to wrest the power from Governor Butler.
He attempted to make himself absolute, and to wrest the liberties from the people of England; that his warmest adherents will admit.
He said that the king wished to be absolute, and wrest the liberties from his subjects, and that they were justified in opposing him; I never heard that when at Arnwood.
This unsuccessful campaign of Pruth proved more hurtful to the czar than ever the battle of Narva was; for after that defeat he had found means not only to retrieve his losses, but also to wrest Ingria out of the hands of Charles XII.
Stanislaus on the crown of Poland, and to wrest Bremen and Verden out of the hands of George I.
It has now descended to the bottom, to the lowest stratum, or to the lowest deep, and proposes to wrest the power from the burgher class and rest it in the proletarian class.
Now we were somewhat prepared for attempts to wrestthe meaning of these very plain words, but not for the flagrant dishonesty of some of the High Church journals.
Illustration] Before all this occurred Florimel's quick eye had noticed the audacious Red Spirit with his stolen bow and arrows, and he had sprung forward to wrest them from him.
If what he urges tend not to thy good He cannot surely wrest perforce thy will.
This roused the strong and brave To meet their death from foemen, for the Hegelings fighting, When they from Hartmut's castle strove to wrest the maid, in bondage sitting.
He has attempted to wrest his sceptre and kingdom from him, in that he hath endeavoured to thrust himself into his throne, which is the heart and conscience of his people.
But yet we know you, that you can wrest the scriptures to your own destruction; and that is clear, in that though you say you own him as the scriptures speak of him, yet you deny him as the scriptures speak of him in part.
I trow from them I'll further / wrest both their vassals and their land.
He stood up, holding her tight in his arms, as if daring the whole world to wrest her from him.
She tied the coin hurriedly into the corner of her rags, as though she feared that I might try to wrest it from her.
The single wrestlings of Jacob prevailed with thee in that sacred Duel, when he had none to second him but thy selfe; who didst assist him with power to overcome thee, and by a welcome violence to wrest a blessing from thee.
Then if this man is illegally trying to wrest the land from its rightful owner, we will employ a detective and see that the fellow is brought to justice.
Be that as it may, the fact remained that Nan had to work her hardest to wrest a set from him after that, and felt very lucky if she managed to win one out of three.
The mainsprings of early political agitation in Japan were personal grievances and a desire to wrest the administrative power from the hands of the statesmen who had held it so long as to overtax the patience of their rivals.
He drinks, for 'tis the humor of the court, And drink may one day wrest the secret from him, And pluck you from your hiding-place in the sequel.
They forget that they have poisoned that desire in him by their mockery and denial of it, and that he now knows that life will give him nothing that he cannot wrest from it by the Plutonic power.
The only chance of permanent security, then, is the appearance in the world of a hero who, without any illicit prompting from Wotan, will destroy Alberic and wrest the ring from Fafnir.
Hence he may not wrest the ring unlawfully from Fafnir, even if he could bring himself to forswear love.
In other words, he attempted to wrest the control of the public lands from the senate, and, with the support of the burgesses, to put an end to the selfish system of occupation.
The old burgesses could not get rid of the monarchy without the cooperation of the new burgesses; but the new burgesses were far from being sufficiently strong to wrest the power out of the hands of the former at one blow.
He had laid his Sword by him, which these unhappy Spectres did strive much to wrest from him; only he held too fast for them.
O never does the Devil make such dangerous Passes at us, as when he does wrest our own Sword out of our Hands, and push That upon us.
The great purpose of the Socialist Party is to wrest the industries and the control of the government of the United States from the capitalists and their retainers.
Here is the sentence: "The workers must wrest the control of the government from the hands of the masters and use its powers in this upbuilding of the new social order, the Co-operative Commonwealth.
