There was a strong party in favor of war as the only means of wresting the magnificent domain of New Netherland from the Dutch and annexing it to the New England possessions.
Scott entered vigorously upon his work of wresting western Long Island from the dominion of the Dutch, whom he denounced as "cruel and rapacious neighbors who were enslaving the English settlers.
In its present form the doctrine no longer justifies the violent wresting of subjects and topics from their natural settings, to be fitted together in some merely logical and theoretical system of instruction.
Certain tales from the Gesta Romanorum might be read in these older grades, adding the interpretations of the ecclesiastics for the gaiety of the class, and as a terrible warning against wresting an allegory out of a story by sheer violence.
Doria was now an aged man, but his good fortune remained true to him, and he succeeded in wresting back some of the victories obtained by the French.
These "wresting or wrested threads" are also to be found among Germans, Norwegians, Swedes, and Flemings.
M1148) The ablest of these princes was Constantius, on whom fell the burden of the Persian war, and which ultimately ended on the defeat of Julian, in Sapor wresting from the emperor all the countries beyond the Euphrates.
He charged also that some werewresting the epistles of Paul, as they were some of the "other scriptures," unto their own destruction.
The reformations effected were like wresting prey from the mighty.
Milton's division has succeeded in wrestingseveral important positions from the enemy after a night of severe fighting.
It was in the very year of the discovery of America that the Spaniards, in the conquest of Granada, had finished their eight centuries of continuous war for wresting their proud country from the invading Moors.
While the Turks were assailing them on the south, and the Russians were wresting from them opulent and populous provinces on the north, Charles Gustavus of Sweden, was crossing her eastern frontiers with invading hosts.
The King of Poland took advantage of the confusion now reigning in Russia to extend his dominions by wresting still more border territory from his great rival.
In this, as in every war with Poland, Russia was gaining, everwresting from her rival the provinces of Lithuania, and attaching them to the gigantic empire.
Turkey was too formidable a foe to think of assailing, and the idea at that time of wresting any territory from Turkey was preposterous.
Some historians have been too ready to assume or assert, on all occasions, that our free constitution has been won by the repeated struggles of the people, who succeeded in wresting from their sovereigns one privilege after another.
Some writers have awarded a large meed of praise to the two earls, for their courage and patriotism in wresting such a concession from such a king.
God, a setting up a different and higher standard of truth and duty, and a proud and confident wresting of Scripture to suit their own purposes.
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, their wresting the Scriptures from their plain and obvious meaning to compel them to teach abolitionism.
Yet how many a short-sighted onlooker at that day, unable to appreciate the inward motive, judged him who remained as shrinking from the reproach of the Cross and wresting the Scriptures to suit a carnal policy and the love of ease.
My friends, receiving the doctrines of Scripture without obeying their requirements is a plain and palpable wresting of the Scriptures.
Are we, my dear friends, wresting the Scriptures, picking and choosing among the commands of God, and obeying only those that run parallel with our inclinations?
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.
She promised to support the Pragmatic Sanction in return for a pledge on the part of Charles to aid in wresting Gibraltar and Minorca from England, and in securing to a Spanish prince the succession to Parma, Piacenza, and Tuscany.
But the accession of James was a death-blow to the hopes of the Duke, while it stirred the fanaticism of Argyle to a resolve of wresting Scotland from the rule of a Catholic king.
How fortunate it is for us that here and there we do not succeed in wresting our temporary treasure from the grasp of the Fates!
That element of the barbarous which went largely to form his emotional nature was overjoyed in wresting such a woman from the enemy, and subduing her personally.
As to the paper of which he charged me with being the author, he said it was a composition worthy of a man who had advised the arming of the Parisians and the wresting of the seals from him with whom the Queen had entrusted them.
The Elamite had just succeeded in wresting from her Namar, the region from whence the bulk of her chariot-horses were obtained, and this success had laid the provinces on the left bank of the Tigris open to their attacks.
Carl wresting a revolver from the other's hand, "I thought so!
As Keela knew the trail, so surely from the rank, tropical vegetation of the great Southern marshland she knew the art of wresting food.
Upon wresting the lance from the earth a label was found upon it importing that it was intended for the queen.
The marques was animated by the idea of regaining this fortress for his sovereigns and wresting from the old Moorish king this boasted trophy of his prowess.
With James the First began the work of building the monarchy up again from this utter ruin; but the wresting of Scotland from the grasp of its nobles was only wrought out in a struggle of life and death.
Though James was swept along helplessly by the tide, his shrewdness saw clearly the turn that affairs were taking; and it was only by hard pressure that the favourite succeeded in wresting his consent to Cranfield's disgrace.
One side of popular tradition figured the hero aswresting the talismans from the otherworld powers for the benefit of his fellow men.
However, on that day they succeeded in wresting from the Italians Monte Fontana Secca and Monte Spinoucia, farther to the north and east.
The Germans held it and the French, in essaying the task of wresting it from them, invited American detachments to lend a hand.
The Germans indeed ventured a few counterattacks in the hope of wresting from the British positions won in the last advance, but these were smashed by artillery fire.
The United States had set out resolutely to do its part in wresting the air spaces over the western front from Germany.
By a formal act of abdication he resigned to Matthias, what indeed he had no chance of wresting from him, Austria and the kingdom of Hungary, and acknowledged him as his successor to the crown of Bohemia.
Moreover, the Reservatum Ecclesiasticum was a disputed article of the treaty of Augsburg; and all the German Protestants were aware of the extreme importance of wresting this fourth electorate from the opponents of their faith.
Bright thereupon floored his adversary, and, wresting his cowhide from him, applied it to its owner to the extent of at least five hundred lashes, meanwhile threatening to shoot the first bystander who attempted to interfere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wresting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: claim; demand; exaction; extortion; ripping; wrench; wrest; wring
