Graham forgot his impatience the same evening, and would have accosted her as usual when his friends were gone, but she wrenched herself from his hand; her eye quite flashed; she would not bid him good-night; she would not look in his face.
' and I wrenched at it more desperately still.
He took the one I had away, and ordered her to resign hers to me; she refused, and he—he struck her down, and wrenched it off the chain, and crushed it with his foot.
Wish that he were dead, I must; and therefore I was fearfully disappointed, and unnerved by terror for the consequences of my taunting speech, when he flung himself on Earnshaw's weapon and wrenched it from his grasp.
There was a carpet—a good one, but the pattern was obliterated by dust; a fireplace hung with cut-paper, dropping to pieces; a handsome oak-bedstead with ample crimson curtains of rather expensive material and modern make; but they had evidently experienced rough usage: the vallances hung in festoons, wrenched from their rings, and the iron rod supporting them was bent in an arc on one side, causing the drapery to trail upon the floor.
But, supposing at twelve years old I had been wrenched from the Heights, and every early association, and my all in all, as Heathcliff was at that time, and been converted at a stroke into Mrs.
He got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears.
But Ayrton, without replying, wrenched himself from his grasp and attempted to rush into the magazine.
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.
