writhing

• “Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is, perhaps, the most interesting book I've read in a year .... and what sets my fanboy antennae writhing is that there are at least two other books set in this world.”

  Scenes From An Art Fair, Written After Seven Hours of Driving To CT

• “In the future, all my devices will be sheathed in writhing plasma-plates like this killer casemod's.”

  Boing Boing: July 20, 2003 - July 26, 2003 Archives

• “Zilla, whose withered lips were again writhing into speech, and compelled her to silence.”

  The White Man's Way

• “He scowled at Zilla, whose withered lips were again writhing into speech, and compelled her to silence.”

  The White Man's Way

• “I killed two before I realized it and their souls went to strengthen me, so that I moved with even greater speed, the sword writhing and turning in my hands like a living creature, killing, killing, killing.”

  The Dreamthief's Daughter

• “What might be called a writhing expression stole over him.”

  The Confidence-Man

• “See that pretty bird, in its beak a writhing worm!”

  A Strange Story — Volume 05

• “Meanwhile, her husband was stuck in a snowstorm in Buffalo, N.Y. and the family cat was found with a "writhing" chipmunk inside the house.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Holding College Chiefs to Their Words

• “He was kind of writhing in pain and grimacing somewhat.”

  CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2005

• “Almost immediately there was a kind of writhing and bubbling where the seed had disappeared.”

  Centaur Aisle

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