A monarch known as Leopold, Writhes in a cavern's squeezing coil; Here man-born helms are but the tools Of Satan and each prowling gnome.
And tower'd screes that pierce giant hell Are treasure-houses for the dead: Each rich man writhes within a den, Society dames proclaim their shame.
A Morgan gambles with a ghoul, A Belmont writhes with sizzling woe, A Rockefeller leads each worm, Another's known as T.
He falls spouting streams of blood, and bites the gory ground, and dying writhes himself upon his wound.
Now this bridge is a monstrous eel, and while the Shade is crossing it, if it writhes it is a sign to the Shade not to tarry, for it means that his wife will not be strangled to follow him.
It is over while we look; the fog writhes and twists down and all is greyness again.
A bracelet spun from mountain mist, A silvery sash unwound, With ox-bow curve and sinuous twist It writhes to reach the Sound.
For aught I know, the next flash of electric fire that shimmers along the ocean cable may tell us that Paris, with every fibre quivering with the agony of impotent despair, writhes beneath the conquering heel of her loathed invader.
He writhes beneath the keen lash of her superb scorn.
There is murder in Marcia Cleveland's heart as she writhes under the retributive hand of justice.
As writhesthe gross Material part when in the furnace cast, So writhes the soul the victim of remorse!
With pure, confiding glance she reads his soul; her eyes sparkle through the mist of tears, and a faint smile writhes her pale young lips.
Of the two others, who head downward are, The one who hangs from the black jowl is Brutus; See how hewrithes himself, and speaks no word.
Anoxia-larva is unable to move along a smooth surface; it writhes laboriously, lying on its side.
It writhes about; it moves its little head now in this direction, now in that, frequently laying it on the Cetonia, but without fixing it anywhere.
It walks clumsily, because its legs are too small for it, and writhes and wriggles itself along, raising its head now and then to look about, and breathing out red fire and black smoke like a blast from a furnace.
At that the dwarf screams and struggles and writhes and curses the gods, but it is all of no use; the Father of the Gods tears the ring from his finger, and then they untie him and tell him to take himself off where he will.
She clutches with her hands, her countenance fills with despair, and her bodywrithes in agony.
And she writhesher body, and sets her eyes fixedly upon him, as he hastens out of the room.
And sometimes, while the old nurse cons Her book, they steal across the square, And launch their paper navies where Huge Triton writhes in greenish bronze.
The red leaves fall upon the mould, The white leaves flutter, one by one, Down to a blue bowl where the sun, Like a great dragon, writhes in gold.
He wags his head at HUGH, who writhes with irritation.
The moment an insect falls into the pitfall, the larva writhes itself round it like a serpent, transfixes it with its mandibles, and sucks its juices at its ease.
In vain her victim, as if conscious of its fate, writhes its body, spits out an acid fluid, menaces with its tentacula, or brings into action the other organs of defence with which it is provided.
The impenitent thief writhes in agony, the suffering Christ casts his last glance at his mother, who, with St. John the beloved disciple, stands below in speechless grief.
At the foot of those steep rocks how the water falls, foams, andwrithes round the ruins it has brought down!
Smite thou that sin of self, which binds the world In fetters fell, than all save truth more strong; That sin most serpentine, round all men curled, Within whose fatal fold earth writhes full long.
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