"Find your courage--if you have lost it--and speak plain words," Clorinda commanded. Anne tried to writhe away, but could not again, and burst into passionate, hopeless weeping.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
She turned from her, and walking back to her dressing-table, stood there steadying the diadem on her hair, which had loosed a fastening when Anne tried to writhe away from her. Anne half sat, half knelt upon the floor, staring at her with wet, wild eyes of misery and fear.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"Ugh!" he said, "God grant I may make a better end. He writhes as in hell-fire."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
She needed not to be led, but straightway followed the awful sounds, until she reached the chamber behind whose door they were shut. Upon the huge disordered bed, Sir Jeoffry writhed, and tried to tear himself, his great sinewy and hairy body almost stark. Two of the stable men were striving to hold him.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Sir Jeoffry writhed his head round and glared at her, with starting eyes and foaming mouth.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"Feminine logic, Zoe. The point is this--she is poor. You must know that. This comes of poverty and love of dress; not of dishonesty and love of dress; and just ask yourself, is there a creature that ought to be pitied more and handled more delicately than a _poor lady?_ Why, you would make her writhe with shame and distress! Well, I do think there is not a single wild animal so cruel to another wild animal as a woman is to a woman. You are cruel to one another by instinct. But I appeal to your reason--if you have any."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
My parasite writhes at night, igniting spasms of pain, while visions and voices, obscene and monstrous, haunt me.电影 · 《Cloud Atlas (2012)》