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Kafka, talking about the process of writing, wrote that there was no reason to leave one's desk: that if you sit there long enough, the world "will writhe before you".

From The Guardian Sep. 6, 2010

Like a mangled reptile whose tail will writhe until sundown, the Fall-Sinclair oil conspiracy, smashed at by investigators since 1923, still had life in it last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lovers of the all-season Bennett will relish this book, but lovers of Katherine Mansfield will writhe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who will take cassia when an eye is to be had, or will writhe under a blister when a look will relieve him?

From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by Morier, James

And then, too, if there are spirits, as Scripture says there are, your uncle's will writhe at the performance.

From Arms and the Woman by MacGrath, Harold