No man, she thought, would acquiesce in the futility to which she was already half resigned; a man would either wring salvation from the heavenly powers or race gloriously to hell.
' As the two women said good-bye their eyes met, and in the brief second of that encounter each tried to wring from the other the true answer to a question which lay unuttered in her heart.
" said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched; and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile.
Jean Baptiste, that dream remained scarce fifteen minutes—a brief space, but sufficing to wring my whole frame with unknown anguish; to confer a nameless experience that had the hue, the mien, the terror, the very tone of a visitation from eternity.
(PETER, MUTTERING SULKILY:—"It's a queer calf that would walk up on end and wring its hands.
I could not wring from my little lady how she had spent the day; except that, as I supposed, the goal of her pilgrimage was Penistone Crags; and she arrived without adventure to the gate of the farmhouse, when Hareton happened to issue forth, attended by some canine followers, who attacked her train.
You tempt him to wring them, till he forces a cry of humiliation.
Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you—they'll damn you.
Imagine a truly respectable and amiable hen, by some portentous anomaly, taking to reflection and inventing combinations by which she might prevail on Hodge not to wring her neck, or send her and her chicks to market; the result could hardly be other than much cackling and fluttering.
To involve her in the danger of a second detection, to court her into an apartment which must wring her heart, could not be the office of a friend.
Since Tom's harassed conscience had managed to drive him to the lawyer's house by night and wring a dread tale from lips that had been sealed with the dismalest and most formidable of oaths, Huck's confidence in the human race was wellnigh obliterated.
But he never reached her, he never heard the cry of anguish he hoped to wring from her.
But instinctively, despite the impulse to jump in the air and wring their hands to thank them for being my first readers, I realized the woman was trying to say something else.
So grab your microfiber cloth, pour a few drops of alcohol onto it, wring it out so it isn't dripping wet, and go to town on the surface.
Soak a t-shirt in the sink, wring it out, put it on and sit in a chair that lets air through to you in front of a fan.
By contrast, shares in Weibo, part-owned by Alibaba, have been climbing on the back of a rising number of subscribers and its growing ability to wring more cash out of them.
To wring all we can out of the economic growth model, he said, the world must set aside greed and fear, outdated characteristics of a bygone era of misery.
Facebook, in contrast, has figured out how to wring billions of dollars from its members on mobile devices and other platforms, making the company's revenue-generation machine unstoppable.
To wring all we can out of the economic growth model, he said, the world must set aside greed and fear, outdated characteristics of a bygone era of misery.
" He was still holding me by the wrist, and at that he give it quite a wring.
