writh'd

Aeneas writh'd his dart, and stopp'd his bawling breath.

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Came all he'd known and lost -- he writh'd with pain

Zophiel A Poem Maria Gowen Brooks

He squeez'd his throat; he writh'd his neck around,

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

His wound was sore upon him; he writh'd in mortal pain;

Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Porter Lander MacClintock 1906

And I writh'd and I struggled, yet could not withstand

Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

Which writh'd o'er Garrick's fortunes, shows us clear

Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace Anna Seward 1775

He fqueez'd his throat, he writh'd his neck around, I And in a knot his crippled members bound.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

569: VVith hatefullest disrelish writh'd thir jaws

Paradise Lost (1667) 1667

328: And writh'd him to and fro convolv'd; so sore

Paradise Lost (1667) 1667

: lights; and wades through fumes, and gropes his way: fing'd, half ftiflcd, till he grafp'd his prey, monfter, fpewing fruitlefs flames, he found; ueez'd his throat, he writh'd his neck around, J in a knot his crippled members bound.

The Works of the English Poets 1779