Worm dressed up as God's priest, how can you writhe there and ask for mercy?

The thoughts that writhe there in silence, that go into the stillness of Infinitude and Eternity, have no emblems.

The Chief drew back and left him there, Sanford could writhe there for a century before the Platform's infinitesimal gravity brought him down.

Could I have done more? And with a laugh he sauntered on, leaving Lionel to writhe there with the torment of his half-knowledge.

The young, the noble, the sanguine were writhing there in agony.

Dying men, half consumed and groaning with anguish, could be seen writhing there.

He writhed there, for the wind was knocked from his body by the fall.

See, it is writhing there on the snow!

Still others go to their beds at once, and lie writhing there until the struggle is entirely decided.

Giant things were writhing there.

She flung herself on the tiger couch, and writhed there for some moments, burying her clenched fists in the creature's deep fur.

Everard was sitting perfectly rigid in his chair staring at the ground between his feet as if he saw a serpent writhing there.

Amid frightful yells and screams it fell; and a score of crushed and mangled men lay writhing there under the uncanny glare of the cressets.