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1. "The knife's in my pack," Alan grunted, trying to wrest his calf free from three wraps of strong rope
2. He was not able to wrest the dart gun from its grip, but it did fire wide when he batted at it and it might take Vic more than a second to get the next dart loaded
3. If Galeron truly had them on his side, her father’s forces might never wrest control away from him
4. He would fight to wrest his soul back from the darkness that was swallowing it piece by piece
5. They were covered in grills but sometimes one of the children living in the Blue would wrest one off and drop rubbish down it, running away when the alarms sounded
6. Or, an exceptionally well-developed interloper might wrest the prize in the temporary disorder attendant with this changing of the guard
7. motives slip out of his mouth! In Egypt today they are still trying to wrest the
8. 6 You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause
9. 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause
10. Exo 23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause
11. Gradualism is nothing more than the concept of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, in which he stated, “The state should wrest, by degrees all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state
12. ”14 It was to wrest also the wealth from the hands of the bourgeoisie
13. I had my own control to wrest my own control
14. Was he so greedy for power that he could not wait to wrest the throne by murdering his father?
15. The pleasure-loving Poitanians had no need nor desire to wrest a hard and scanty living from their stern breasts
16. He knew that his rule would be over the instant he had served Amalric's purpose; he knew, too, that so long as he continued to oppress his native kingdom the Nemedian would suffer him to reign, for Amalric wished to crush Aquilonia into ultimate submission, to destroy its last shred of independence, and then at last to seize it himself, rebuild it after his own fashion with his vast wealth, and use its men and natural resources to wrest the crown of Nemedia from Tarascus
17. Until we wrest the appointing
18. would wrest possession of this ball from their opponents
19. On 1st January 1945, code named “Operation Baseplate”, the Luftwaffe staged its frantic but forlorn attempt to wrest air superiority from the Allies
20. the end of the arm wrest
21. In the process, he could wrest the privilege of placing the sacred stone all by himself in its Holy place, i
22. If the Sol Invictus, or Mithras or even Nimüe had suspected that you would seek to set yourself up and wrest power from us by force none of this would have occurred-”
23. The death throes of a democracy are manifested in endless protests to wrest crumbs from tight fisted oligarchs
24. “No, it is reserved for those who can wrest it from others to increase their ego-force
25. She could easily overpower them and wrest control over the wind from their grasp
26. wrest the proof, and all was well once more
27. war with the Devatas, Mahabali managed to wrest sovereign control from Indra for the first part of the Treta Yuga
28. arcancar to pull up, wrest, force out
29. punishment? Death must be "wrest" (2 Peter 3:16) into something that is not death
30. figurative punishment? Death must be "wrest" (2 Peter 3:16) into something that
31. We have seen in an earlier chapter how certain painters in the nineteenth century, feeling how very second-hand and far removed from nature painting had become, started a movement to discard studio traditions and study nature with a single eye, taking their pictures out of doors, and endeavouring to wrest nature's secrets from her on the spot
32. But so long as men think all souls immortal, and are oppressed with the horror of the dogma of endless misery thence arising, the temptation to wrest the terms of Scripture into the sense of universal salvation is almost irresistible
33. Depend upon it when your master comes to be emperor (as he will beyond a doubt from the course his affairs are taking), it will be no easy matter to wrest the dignity from him, and he will be sore and sorry at heart to have been so long without becoming one
34. He tried to wrest the key from Catherine's grasp, and for safety she flung it into the hottest part of the fire; whereupon Mr
35. remaining, he could still wrest a victory from this mess, a sense of dread crept up Param"s
36. It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family, but," the corpse sighed, or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it, "it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two
37. forces wrest Grenada from the Marxists, the United States has fallen victim to a new form of warfare: terrorism
38. "In essence, the year before, the royal houses of Holland, Austria, and England had signed a treaty of alliance at The Hague, aiming to wrest the Spanish crown from King Philip V and to place it on the head of an archduke whom they prematurely dubbed King Charles III
39. Some tried to wrest their hands from the restraints or grab the nurse’s hand with “painful intensity
40. Sayest thou so? Will they wrest from us, from me, the palm of beauty?
41. Muddy swinesnouts, hands, root and root, gripe and wrest them
42. The jackhammer weighed seventy-five pounds and seemed to have a life and a will of its own, endlessly pushing back, trying to wrest itself out of Joe’s grip as he in turn tried to push it into the rock
43. She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she But she wasn’t going to be poor all her life
44. To wrest further information from the city bureaucracy was easy enough, but slow
45. Wasn't there light in the fact which, as we shared our solitude, broke out with a specious glitter it had never yet quite worn?—the fact that (opportunity aiding, precious opportunity which had now come) it would be preposterous, with a child so endowed, to forego the help one might wrest from absolute intelligence? What had his intelligence been given him for but to save him? Mightn't one, to reach his mind, risk the stretch of an angular arm over his character? It was as if, when we were face to face in the dining room, he had literally shown me the way
46. will: an attack, an attempt to wrest his treasure from him by force
47. How could I have forgotten? This must be why people write memoirs: what sudden bright spots of awareness one can occasionally wrest from the darkness! Dolores did come to my trial
48. He tried to wrest the key from Catherine’s grasp, and for safety she flung it into the hottest part of the fire; whereupon Mr
49. Withdraw from the candidacy of the Honeysuckle Lodge or face me face-to-face tomorrow when I run for office and wrest it from you in a fair fight
50. His love for my mother had never diminished, and his own ambition in life was to reach a point where he might wrest the metal from Tal Hajus himself, and thus, as ruler of the Tharks, be free to claim her as his own, as well as, by the might of his power, protect the child which otherwise would be quickly dispatched should the truth become known
1. Tullius finally wrested himself from his map and stood up from the long table to face her
2. Brock suddenly understood that the powers of The Way had somehow been wrested from his control and were now threatening to crush his mind
3. 2 For he brought much impiety, and he killed the righteous, and he wrested judgment, and he shed the blood of the innocent, and
4. But her eyes lighted on the axe in the empty, gloved hand, and she wrested it free and charged at the door
5. She had finished speaking, he knew, and yet if he could have wrested more from her with his hands, he would have done it
6. Nor is it a promise of limited rights wrested from a reluctant King John, such as the Magna Carta in England in the year 1215, crucial though that document is in the growth of liberty
7. 2 For he brought much impiety and he killed the righteous and he wrested judgment and he shed the blood of the innocent and wedded women he violently polluted and he overturned the altars and destroyed their offerings and drove forth their priests lest they should minister in the sanctuary
8. With a savage twist, Nem’s sword was wrested from his hand and it clattered to the floor
9. In such cases, control of a specific service or services could be wrested from the local authority, and the running of that service transferred to the control of central government
10. was wrested from individual persons and educational
11. they have wrested from us
12. “Sixty five years of hard graft in order to piss away the last few years in pointless pursuits and ill-fitting nylon clothing? There is surely greater meaning to be wrested from life than that!” Mark, distracted in his metaphysical funk, failed to notice an oncoming truck as we rode off and almost found the answer to his own question
13. Andrei thrust himself from the ground, wrested the torch from Chureal’s hands, and pushed him away
14. But, as time is the great healer of grief for the living, and, besides, the dead too wouldn’t be taking away with them the proclivities of their dears, this ‘foreign child of Indian destiny’ found the purpose of her life, and wrested the reins of the Congress party from the ungrateful hands of that Sitaram Kesari, who by then had back-stabbed Narasimha Rao his mentor
15. Till then, all that people ate was what they found on bushes or wrested away from other hungry critters
16. All knowledge is the result of concentration of this kind; it is thus that the secrets of Heaven and Earth have been wrested; it is thus that the mind becomes a magnet and the desire to know draws the knowledge, irresistibly attracts it, makes it your own
17. Then, in a well-oiled maneuver, he wrested the firearm from inside his jacket and drew the hammer back
18. Bino’s hands shook as he wrested a pack of cigarettes from his pocket
19. Smitty peeked under the front steps of the trailer and wrested the key from its hook
20. the Pharisees had wrested control from the Saducees and
21. dependency of Peru, became independent and even wrested aconsiderable stretch of the litoral
22. The world has already suffered too much from systems founded on a handful of wrested quotations, even of the English translation, of Scripture, to allow of much reticence in repudiating these hermeneutical methods, whether of heated enthusiasts or ascetic priesthoods
23. There were always 'Scripture texts’ enough at hand, duly wrested, to support this or any other delusion, and they were diligently used during the following centuries of Christianity, and quoted as defiantly of the main drift of the Bible as they are to-day
24. How the evidence that had been warped and wrested from the young lady, whose anguish in giving it they had witnessed, came to nothing, involving the mere little innocent gallantries and politenesses likely to pass between any young gentleman and young lady so thrown together;--with the exception of that reference to George Washington, which was altogether too extravagant and impossible to be regarded in any other light than as a monstrous joke
25. But preachers, sly and wily men, following your counsel (as I suppose) because they saw men evil- willing to frame their manners to Christ's rule, they have wrested and wried his doctrine, and, like a rule of lead, have applied it to men's manners, that by some means at the least way, they might agree together
26. Solid matter had wrested from liquid matter some 37,657,000 square miles, hence 12,916,000,000 hectares
27. He was the direct, sole heir to these treasures wrested from the Incas and those peoples conquered by Hernando Cortez!
28. The Huron chief, after casting the weapons he had wrested from his companions over the rock, drew his knife, and turned to his captive, with a look in which conflicting passions fiercely contended
29. I wish to bury it during my whole life in my own bosom, but your brother Maximilian wrested it from me by a violence he repents of now, I am sure
30. had mostly wrested control of the city from the bad guys, and it was now just a matter of time before resistance collapsed
31. had mostly wrested control of the city from the bad guys, and it was now just a matter of time before resistance collapsed
32. The name was something of a misnomer; the Harchongese fortifications which had once guarded the Kaudzhu Narrows had decayed into ruins long ago, following the minor unpleasantness during which the Empire had wrested the remainder of Hahskyn Bay and the area about it away from the hapless Kingdom of Sodar
33. ' Then taking the key that he had wrested from the slain man he closed
34. Ruthie sprang at her, slapped her, pushed her, and wrested the mallet from her hands
35. If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself
36. The most remarkable among the lodgers were Mark Ivanovitch, an intelligent and well-read man; then Oplevaniev; then Prepolovenko, also a nice and modest person; then there was a certain Zinovy Prokofyevitch, whose object in life was to get into aristocratic society; then there was Okeanov, the copying clerk, who had in his time almost wrested the distinction of prime favourite from Semyon Ivanovitch; then another copying clerk called Sudbin; the plebeian Kantarev; there were others too
37. The train that I met on the 9th day of September carrying soldiers, muskets, ammunition, and rods to the famine-stricken peasants, in order that the wealthy landowner might possess in peace the tract of wood he had wrested from the peasants, a necessity of life to them, to him a mere superfluity, affords a vivid proof of the degree to which men have unconsciously acquired the habit of committing acts wholly at variance with their convictions and their conscience
38. How can they, even, who take no active part in it,—the spectators, whose indignation would be aroused by accounts of private violence, even though it be but the ill-usage of a horse,—how can they allow this shocking business to go on without rising in wrath to resist it, crying aloud, "No, we will not allow you to flog or to kill starving men because they refuse to surrender their last property villainously attempted to be wrested from them!" And not only are men found willing to do these deeds, but most of them, even the chief instigators, like the steward, the landowner, the judge, and those who take part in originating prosecution and punishment, the Governor, the Minister of State, the Czar, remain perfectly calm, and show no sign of remorse over such things
39. Do gentlemen mean an abject acquiescence to those iniquitous decrees and Orders in Council? Do gentlemen mean that that liberty and independence that was obtained through the valorous exertions of our ancestors, should be wrested from our hands without a murmur—that independence, in the obtaining of which so much virtue was displayed, and so much blood was shed? Do they mean that it should be relinquished to our former masters without a struggle? Gentlemen assign as a reason why the embargo should be removed, its inefficacy—that it has not answered the contemplated purpose
40. The man ousted must be put in possession, must be restored to the possession of the property which the hand of violence has wrested from him; and I hope that a proposition to this effect in a proper shape will be presented
41. Is it nothing to the British nation; is it nothing to the pride of her Monarch, to have the last of the immense North American possessions held by him in the commencement of his reign wrested from his dominion? Is it nothing to us to extinguish the torch that lights up savage warfare? Is it nothing to acquire the entire fur trade connected with that country, and to destroy the temptation and the opportunity of violating your revenue and other laws?
42. We behold our vessels, freighted with the products of our soil and industry, or returning with the honest proceeds of them, wrested from their lawful destinations, confiscated by prize courts, no longer the organs of public law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced, or inveigled in British ports into British fleets, whilst arguments are employed in support of these aggressions, which have no foundation but in a principle equally supporting a claim to regulate our external commerce in all cases whatsoever
43. The extremes of civilization and barbarism are nearer together in those countries which the Spaniards have wrested from their native inhabitants, than in any other portion of the globe
44. The honor, the character of the nation, require that the British power on our borders shall be demolished in the next campaign—her American provinces once wrested from her, every attempt to recover them will be chimerical, except through negotiation
45. But can any man imagine that, if we invade the British colonies, the war will be there? Will the pride of Britain, powerful as she is at sea, and ready at any moment to meet every emergency, permit her tamely to look on and see her provinces wrested from her, without exerting herself with all her energies for their security? Will she make no diversions in their favor? Will she suffer us to carry the war into her territories, and not retort upon us? Does an unprotected seacoast of two thousand miles afford her no opportunities of attacking us? Do our rich and flourishing cities, exposed without defence on the seaboard, to the cannon of her ships of war, furnish her with no objects worthy her attention? Will the city of New York, laid in ashes, atone for the invasion of Canada; or, will the acquisition of Canada compensate to us for the loss of New York? Sir, said Mr
46. do they mean that independence should be wrested from us without a struggle? 70;
1. They scurry over and grapple with the door, wresting it back into position
2. ” Gwen was wresting with the hat and stabbed Milady with a hatpin
3. “It gets worse before it gets better,” Ganesh said, wresting his hand upon Ravi’s shoulder and slowly rubbing vertically
4. He is becoming experienced in the skillful wresting of victory from the very jaws of defeat; he is learning how to transform the difficulties of time into the triumphs of eternity
5. He has bought a canoe, and has won the cup for swimming, wresting it from the reluctant hands of the discomfited Jena young men
6. Wresting the phone from his pocket, Stacey called for an ambulance
7. wresting of the scriptures (2 Peter 3:16)
8. It is the "doctrines and precepts of men" [Matthew 15:9], and is wresting the writings
9. men" (Matthew 15:9), and is wresting the writings of Paul and the other scriptures (2
10. It is a deliberate carefully thought out wresting of the scriptures (2 Peter 3:16)
11. It is a deliberate carefully thought out wresting of the scriptures [2 Peter 3:16]
12. It is the "doctrines and precepts of men" [Matthew 15:9], and is wresting the writings of Paul and the other scriptures [2 Peter 3:16]
13. What an agonizing day I spent, torn between my desire to regain my free will and my regret at abandoning this marvelous Nautilus, leaving my underwater research incomplete! How could I relinquish this ocean—"my own Atlantic," as I liked to call it—without observing its lower strata, without wresting from it the kinds of secrets that had been revealed to me by the seas of the East Indies and the Pacific! I was putting down my novel half read, I was waking up as my dream neared its
14. The arm of the latter slowly gave way before the increasing force of the scout, who, suddenly wresting his armed hand from the grasp of the foe, drove the sharp weapon through his naked bosom to the heart
15. "It was a wild dream, that of wresting the metal from Tal Hajus in five short years, but his advance was rapid, and he soon stood high in the councils of Thark
1. We know the war machine feasts upon money in its quest for more power, and with that power wrests wealth away from the rest of the world