Grief wrings her soul, and bends it down to earth.
There is nothing one isn't eager to do for them, and their gratitude for small mercies, excellent stuff as they are, almost wrings the heart.
The Duchesse de Vendôme wrings her hands while her daughter is speaking.
And Madame de Noailles wrings the hand of her friend to rouse her.
On a height a woman wrings her hands in the anguish of remorse, while another gazes in despair upon the ground.
It's hard to say, what they do or do not know; the bird often wrings my heart; but for all that, I could not part with him.
All that look on me Do seem to know my shame; I cannot bear Their eyes; I cannot from my heart root out The love that wrings it so, and I must die.
Now, e’en the tear which sorrow wrings From loving eyes destruction brings.
Reflect what anguish wrings the heart When loving souls are forced to part; And, mindful of the coming pain, Thy love within thy breast restrain.
He wrings his hands in despair and staggers in the middle of the medley of plaster and bricks.
The wind sets the flooded flats a-tremble to our eyes, and falling furiously on the human masses lying or kneeling and fixed like flagstones and grave-slabs, it wringsnew shivering from them.
Seldom did he speak--and his sighs were deeper, longer, and more disturbed than those which almost any sorrow ever wrings from the young.
How it yearns me, thrills me, stings me, How with rapturous torment wrings me!
And from approaching years a knowledge wrings Of what they bear upon their viewless wings.
Enrica wrings her hands and looks piteously into his face.
Then she clasps her hands--the small fingers knitting themselves together with a grasp of agony--and wrings them.
But, whether he wrings the heart with pity, or freezes the blood with terror, or fires the soul with indignation, the genial reader still rises from his pages refreshed.
The advice is good--the Vandal wringshis hands, Kicks out the Sage--and rushes to a wizard.
Then, bidding God bless her, he wrings her hand, strongly, and so takes his last farewell of her, nor ever sees her fair face and great gentle stag eyes again.
More wounded in her feelings than in her flesh, she sobs and wrings her hands like one in despair.
She wrings her hands, and having sailed as it were into the further end of the pit, vaults back, and commences a series of wild gyrations round Mr. Krone.
Such conduct may be imperial, but it isn't polite, that I must say, though it wrings my heart to find fault with him.
Beloved sisters, your question wrings the heart in my bosom.
I am fain And loth to tell thee how itwrings my heart That now this hard-eyed heavy southern sun Hath wrought its will upon us all a year And yet I know not if my wife be mine.
One doubt remains, That wrings me sorely, if I solve it not.
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