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1822, uncredited author, “The Nightmare” (Review of Smarra, ou les Démons de la Nuit by Charles Nodier (1821), including free translations of passages from the novella), The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 4, p. 524, […] the monster sprang from her burning hand, turned writhingly and rapidly in the air, outspread his wildly-fashioned wings, uprose, sank down, expanded, shrunk […]
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And now, just as he crossed the threshold of the closet, he writhingly strove to assume an expression intended to be not uncheerful […]
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[…] Mr. Wrenn writhingly admitted that he had never heard of Shelley […]
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Heroically, the man at the stake now overcame the will of his antenna, spoke rapidly, writhingly.
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