The sky writhed with clouds.
The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.
The man moaned, writhed a little, and his face came into the moonlight.
The tangles of eels within his armor writhed and made the monster's bulk seem to boil.
The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed.
The man moaned, writhed a little, and his face came into the moonlight. It was Muff Potter.
All of a sudden Nana writhed in a deep convulsion, and a bird the size of a chicken and with iridescent feathers escaped from between the sheets.
It now writhed in convulsions of pain, and was a forcible type, in its little frame, of the moral agony which Hester Prynne had borne throughout the day.
No matter how it writhed and rolled, the sparks streamed against the bare flesh of the dancers, some of flame adhering to their bodies, making them halt their dancing and cry out loudly.
