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Eye dialect spelling ofwrithe .
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Examples
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Bush will NOT be raptured because he is the anti-Christ himself wow when his followers figure that out, and they took his mark on their hands too, they will all faint or writh in pain!
Think Progress » As violence spreads in the Middle East, 2006
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At that moment the carrion crawler burst into view from behind a twist in the tunnel, its tentacles flashing and writh - ing toward the ledge.
Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003
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'To be honest writh you, I think that this is when Frank was really starting to get pissed off with the Kennedys,' said Sammy Davis in retrospect.
Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997
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At that moment the carrion crawler burst into view from behind a twist in the tunnel, its tentacles flashing and writh - ing toward the ledge.
Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990
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Mouthing curses the weary dreamers kicked the writh -
Hero Of Dreams Lumley, Brian 1986
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I'm always very bad at eating writh my fingers and I always seem to make more mess upon the carpet than the Arabs do, but I must say there's a fascination in that sort of a meal.
ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951
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The bodie of the moone in the meane time that was beneath, séemed to wrest and writh in resemblance like to an adder or snake that had béene beaten, and anon after it came to the old state againe.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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But ages earlier, far back in the course of animal evolution, there emerged phenomena which we may consider rudimentary forms of morality; and all early human history was replete writh unanalyzed and unformulated moral struggles.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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As touching the gouerning of your Plough, if you sée shée taketh too much land, then you shall writh your left hand a little to the left side and raise your
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He speedily discovered that his wife was a woman of fretful, imperious temper, jealous of mere shadows (though Berlioz was a man to give her substantial cause), and totally lacking in sympathy writh his high-art ideals.
The Great Italian and French Composers Ferris, George T 1878
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