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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;
