Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Writhe

Writhes like Saint Laurent on the gridiron.
—Anonymous

Writhed like twisted locks.
—Anonymous

Writhe like the Pythian.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Writhing o’er its task,
As heart-sick jesters weep behind the mask.
—Thomas Hood

Writhed like a feather on the fire.
—Guy de Maupassant

Writhed like a worm on a hook.
—Charles Reade

Writhe as a dragon by some great spell curbed and foiled.
—William Watson