He patted Harry's head, again wrung the father's hand, and left the mine.
So saying, James Starr wrung the horny hand of the oldest miner, whose eyes were dim with tears.
The widow and the orphan in their woe, Drown'd 'neath the clink of goldwrung from their need, Like moisture from the crushing of the grape.
She threw herself on her knees, and raising up her hands, cried the same words in tones which wrung my heart.
Mina was looking tired and pale, but she made a gallant effort to be bright and cheerful; it wrung my heart to think that I had had to keep anything from her and so caused her inquietude.
There was a cold-bloodedness in the act which wrung a groan from Arthur; when she advanced to him with outstretched arms and a wanton smile, he fell back and hid his face in his hands.
He wrung my hand, and taking up his hat, went straight out of the room without looking back, without a tear or a quiver or a pause; and I am crying like a baby.
She seized the opportunity hungrily as a way out of her present trouble; but, knowing what Mrs. Brooks's temper was in time of health, she could see clearly what it was likely to prove when pain and anguish wrung the brow.
Faustulus, in those dire straits, did not altogether remain unshaken, and yet did not quite allow his secret to be wrung from him.
It was out at last, the sum of his passionate longing, poured out despairingly in a flood of wild unrecking words; without forethought, wrung from him by the sudden yearning born of the sight of the girl in tears.
All this was planned with the most disconcerting skill and with a logic whose implacable rigour wrung our very souls.
And yet our hearts are wrung with anguish, as though we had been present at a murder or an execution.
Nevertheless, their faces were wrung with anguish; and all, with an impulse of their whole being, seemed to rush forward to their doom.
The beating of our hearts wrung with love and distress was the very beating of that Sacred Heart.
The skipper wrung his hand till he nearly wrung it off.
He held her hand still, and his own wrung it hard--the grasp of comrade to comrade, not of man to woman.
Our life here is hell upon earth to such as he, yet none ever heard a lament wrungout of him; he is gone to the chances of death to-night as most men go to their mistresses' kisses; he is a soldier Napoleon would have honored.
But, however wretched, they neverwrung a single regret or lament from Cecil.
Her consent must be wrung from her by this politic stroke of shipboard wedding that to her mind would be infinitely more significant than our association in the yacht.
Well, you have prevented a mother's heart from being wrung with agony, and a noble house from going into mourning," said the captain.
I thanked him cordially, and wrung his hand as he stepped into the punt, for my heart misgave me that I should never see him again.
He could not restrain a heart-broken murmur, wrung out of his very aching heart, as it were.
The ominous sound wrung a low moan from the rigid figure of the woman sitting by his side.
And yet these hearts, when torn by pain, Or wrung by disappointment keen, Will seek relief from present cares In thoughts of joys that might have been.
She sat for the five miles which led to her destination with her eyes closed and her hands wrung tight together in her lap.
This it was which had wrung the address from Denny and stricken down Christina in a faint.
While we hold our convictions firmly, we must hold them as God's truth, and in God's strength, or they will soon be wrung from our grasp.
He has sold his soul for what must soon be wrung from his grasp.
They wrung that out of me, and then put me in a room directly above this one.
The dying did not think so, but Mildmay did, whose very soul waswrung by such sights.
When she had wrung out the last mop rag and hung it to dry behind the stove, she fed the chickens and horses, took the ax and bucksaw, went out to the woodpile and sawed and split a man's size jag of stove wood and kindling.
As he pulled his six-shooter, there was another shot from the bedroom, a shot that wrung an apprehensive yelp from the district attorney.
Winnie began to sop up the water with a floor rag which she wrung out in the washbasin.
Little dost thou know how many prayers, sighs, and tears have been wrung from their hearts on thine account.
How many prayers, sighs, and tears, are there wrung from their hearts upon this account?
As the great words died into silence, Robert's body was wrung with pangs.
Amy's heart was wrung as she heard him living through that time of supreme misery--misery which she might have done so much to alleviate, had not selfish fears and irritated pride caused her to draw further and further from him.
Her practical denial that she loved him wrungthis taunt from his anguished heart.
It was this defeat of his favourite son which wrungfrom King George II.
