The crowd shouted applause as he caught her by the wristsafter a particularly dazzling plunge into the empty air, and brought her round to face them, her fixed eyes changed and shot with triumph.
After that he let her wrists go, and she went to sit on a low stool, some little distance away from him.
He held her wrists and in a happy, irresponsible way was swinging her arms out and in, all the while that he was drinking in the joy of seeing her again.
Then she tried to draw her wrists out of his tenacious clutch.
My blue jacket seemed in the sleeves to have picket a quarrel with the wrists and had retreated to a tait below the elbows.
This he accomplished by holding the chain that connected them firmly between his teeth, and, squeezing his fingers as closely together as possible, he succeeded in drawing his wrists through the manacles.
The effect produced by the torture was excruciating pain; her wrists and ankles were much swollen, and the former bore the marks of the barbarity employed towards her to the present day.
On her head was a tall feather, her hair was covered with a wig, on her neck lay a collar of blue stones; on her arms and wrists were bracelets of gold.
But when she saw him turn away from her towards the door, as if he would go out and leave her there, her strength was loosed from the spell, and she sprang before him and caught his wrists with her hands.
Her small hands grasped the dwarfs wrists and wrung them with desperate energy, and she tried to push him away, so that she might pass him.
A velvet coat with Empire sleeves, very full at the shoulders and buttoned closely at the wrists and with an immense collar of blue fox for sole trimming, covered her from head to foot, but without disguising the grace of her figure.
Carried away by his own words he grasped her wrists tightly and drew so close to her that she felt his hot breath on her cheek.
I saw this clearly in a second while my wrists were cracking with the strain.
The raw-hide bonds chafed my wrists and ankle and shoulders, but they were the least part of my aches.
My wrists and feet had been unbound long before, and the rest had cured my leg-weariness.
Burkhardt struggled fiercely for a moment against the steel bands about his wrists and the men who held him.
The latter at first stared in astonishment at beholding the pair, one of whom was San Mateo's foremost citizen, now sullenly advancing with wrists bound.
Then, in hunting, the poor lady's wrists are everlastingly bruised by the off-head, to say nothing of the danger of their being broken by it.
As she sat there in the subdued light, her white dress, relieved by a touch of turquoise at the wrists and waist, she presented a picture graceful, delicate, and altogether charming.
She put up both her small white hands as though to stay the torrent of passionate words which I poured forth; but I grasped her wrists and held her to me until I had told her all the longings of my soul.
He twitched his neckerchief off--Lorraine saw that it was untied, and that he must have planned all this--and with it tied her wrists to the saddle horn.
Without a word he took her wrists in a firm clasp, tied them together again to the saddle horn, pulled off her tie, her hat, the pins from her hair.
When they came to the tree, there was the little sprite, with his wrists and ankles bound, lying upon the moss.
He leaned over her with a smile, smoothing her wrists lightly, with slow, downward touches, and whispering in her ear.
And with that they fell to chafing hiswrists and his palms.
Jack opened the door, and then going back to where the man lay, and moving the furniture out of the way, took him by the two wrists and dragged him out of the door and left the body lying on the ground.
It was some time after the ropes were taken off her ankles and wrists before Betty felt the blood circulating normally.
His eyes were as red burning coals; long grey hair fell over his shoulders in matted coils; his garments, which were of antique cut, were soiled and ragged, and from his wrists and ankles hung heavy manacles and rusty gyves.
His attire was scarcely befitting a bridegroom, for he had no coat, and wore the soiled and ragged grey shirt and trousers of a miner, while the chains that bound hiswrists seemed strangely out of place.
At the same time two other serfs, chosen by Ivan for assistants, took him by the arms and attached his wrists to two stakes, one at either side of him, so that it appeared as though he were stretched on a cross.
He first fastened the feet of the marquise to two rings close together fixed to a board; then making her lie down, he fastened her wrists to two other rings in the wall, distant about three feet from each other.
Ferocious joy shone in his eyes as the accused made their way through the crowd, two by two, their wrists tied with ropes; for the duke every minute expected to hear the queen's name spoken.
With this he bound her wrists together behind her back, and passed the end round a stout trunk of willow.
Come and tie this man's wrists together behind his back, while I keep him covered.
Latterly Imbrie had been forcing Stonor to lie close to him at night, and the end of the line that bound Stonor's wrists was tied around Imbrie's arm.
Mrs. Price, tears of anxiety in her eyes, gripped Winnie's wrists and held them tight.
She clasped his plump wrists folded in fat and held them while he struggled until the dirt and sweat with which they were grimed rolled up under her fingers.
It's more than I can bear, and I've a great mind to jump overboard and drown myself when I get my wristsout of these irons.
Will they put handcuffs on our wrists and throw us into a dungeon, do you think?
The anguish of the fastenings at her wrists was at last overpowering her senses--conquering, in spite of all resistance, her stubborn endurance.
Taking its halter from the camel, he fastened one end of it to the saddle, and the other around the wrists of the sailor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
