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Since the failed coup in August, the country has been writhing in a last agony that, in the words of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, seemed to drag on "through some sort of sick eternity."

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, Mr. Fuller's onslaught encouraged several other like-minded critics to back him up, so that the city has been writhing under the scourges of her epigrammatists.

From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William

But Negundo goes at it as Colocynth does in its specialty, so that the victim who has been writhing with an engorged rectum "will arise up and call you blessed."

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock