But it was too heavy, and its writhings continued even after the boys had fired a charge of small shot at close quarters through the reptile's head.
There was something truly terrible in beholding, as it were, those second-hand indications of the terrible writhings and agonized struggles for liberty which themselves were invisible.
Yet not until the last instance, amid the most convulsive writhings of her fierce spirit, was shaken the external placidity of her demeanor.
We have combinations of this kind, at least in part, in the frantic gestures of rage and in the writhings of extreme pain; and, perhaps, in the increased action of the heart and of the respiratory organs.
But the gestures of a man in this state usually differ from the purposeless writhings and struggles of one suffering from an agony of pain; for they represent more or less plainly the act of striking or fighting with an enemy.
It is not for us to condemn, who have never had the same burden laid on us; it is not for pigmies at their ease to criticise the writhings of the Titan chained to the rock.
When finally secured, her writhings were extraordinary.
When his writhings had ceased the cracksman removed his lantern and laid it lightly on the floor outside.
He tortured him somehow, you remember, and chained him to a stake in his studio, so that he might paint Prometheus' writhings to the life.
It had no inscription, but it represented, with the most painful and horrifying fidelity, the writhings and agonizing throes of the human being during the progress of transformation into the lupine monster.
But we care not to watch too curiously the writhings of your imprisoned soul, Manetho; the less, because we doubt whether the agony will be of benefit to you.
To dissect and reduce to its elements that grisly murder-devil which had once possessed his own soul, and whose writhings beneath the scalpel he would therefore feel as his own--here loomed a prospect large and terrible!
It is the strange mercy of our God that he does not reject the writhings of a jaded heart.
For several days more they followed the writhings of the great river on its tortuous course through wastes of swamp and cane-brake, till on the thirteenth of March[235] they found themselves wrapped in a thick fog.
They had travelled quicker than the careless boat, and he was well out among the first writhings of the Race before it came bobbing merrily towards him.
He sought out their holes by patiently following one bearing a bit of food, and he poured gasoline into the hole and the earth around it, taking satisfaction in the thought of the writhings in agony below.
The man tied to the tree struggled with his bonds, but they were strong and his writhings made the knots but tighten.
Before the pile began its writhingsand contortions again he must eat.
Then he crept into their place, grateful for so much, and lay and watched the strange writhings and contortions of the pile under the impact of the gale and the rising tide.
But the curtain drops behind him and we, hesitating to follow, see only dimly the phantasmagoria beyond; the ecstasies of vague shapes with a shining about them, on the one hand; on the other the writhings of animate gargoyles.
I saw the faint writhings of a frail, wasted frame, over which the Veiled Woman was bending.
And strangely, strangely, it was like the Dweller's beauty when with its dazzling spirallings and writhings it raced amid its storm of crystal bell sounds!
Now Yolara was down, Lakla meshed in her writhings and fighting like some wild mother whose babes are serpent menaced.
Why then do you worship a Moloch who laughs at the writhingsof his victims and drinks their tears like wine?
He will watch her writhingswith more than the relish of a sportsman who has hooked a lusty trout.
He laught so loud that he shook with it, and the writhings of his face squeezed the tears out of his goggle eyes.
I raised my rifle, and as the beast in his writhings exposed his belly I took aim at the soft flesh just inside his left fore-leg, and fired both barrels.
At length the furiouswrithings died down into a faint muscular heave, and the black fiend, relaxing none of his grip of the now dead reptile, glided into the dark shades which had covered the retreat of the leopard.
And the hideous bloated reptile, blown out in its wrath, hung there, tightening its coils in spasmodic writhings as it struck the imprisoned limb again and again with its deadly fangs.
I have not alluded to the state of public affairs, of which I was far from cognisant, saving that the writhings and strugglings which this tortured realm did make, shook also the little parsonage of Welding.
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