The man looked at the clock, sprang to the levers, and wrenched them this way and that.
But the man wrenched his arm away, and cowered back coughing and trembling and trying to push the Station Master away.
Thus socially banded against the foe, they wrenched out of the hour a few well-smoked drops from the cup of joy.
Thus to go from one great novelist to another—from Jane Austen to Hardy,from Peacock to Trollope,from Scott to Meredith —is to be wrenched and uprooted;to be thrown this way and then that.
,, He wrenched free of their grip and ran, half-blind, for the door.
" He stooped down and wrenched up a spray of heather.
At the same moment, another pirate grasped Hunter's musket by the muzzle, wrenched it from his hands, plucked it through the loophole, and with one stunning blow, laid the poor fellow senseless on the floor.
Thus to go from one great novelist to another — from Jane Austen to Hardy, from Peakcok to Trollope, from Scott to Meredith — is to be wrenched and uprooted; to be thrown this way and then that.
" Directly the box was in my hands I wrenched off the cover.
