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Meanings of writhed like in English

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Usage of writhed like in English
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The blue smoke-swallowed line curled and writhed like a snake stepped upon.
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
2
The object writhed like a worm between the monster's two rough fingers.
Servant of a dark god
3
The attacking force reeled and writhed like a monster in agony.
On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
4
His muscles responded with agonized slowness; he writhed like a slug.
To the blight: the eye of the world
5
He writhed like a salted snail, his hair and face dripping with carnagene.
The Wolf’s Hour
6
The corona of the sun gleamed and writhed like a thin band of quicksilver.
Hunters Out of Space
7
Outside, in the dooryard, a feathered figure writhed like a snake towards the fence.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
8
His stone-hard muscles writhed like pythons in her grasp, but she maintained her hold.
Anno Dracula
9
Her spirit writhed like a snake in his hold.
Evan Harrington — Volume 6
10
The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.
A House of Pomegranates
11
Adeline writhed like a person stabbed to the heart.
Poor Relations
12
Charged energies writhed like serpents beneath the crystal surface.
Faerie Wars
13
Pawlu writhed like a maggot on the ground, trying to distance himself from the flame.
The Information Officer
14
But the madman they all believed mortally wounded writhed like a serpent in the elf's grasp.
The brazen gambit
15
It writhed like the larva of a mosquito.
Gravity
16
On the way down the creaking stairs, my guts writhed like I'd stuffed them with worms.
Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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