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wriggling

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1. wriggling - Noun

2. wriggling - Verb

4. wriggling - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Wriggle

Source: Webster's dictionary

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What's transcendental in Blake is not the statically geometrical, but the sense of arrested energy: the wriggling vines & snakes, flames & the like...It's an expression of the belief that every object is an event. Northrop Frye

And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? And how should I presume? T. S. Eliot

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. Anne Lamott

No offense to your father, Jim, but let's face it-the man's dead. Dead, dead, dead. Moldering in the ground, being eaten by worms, and...what's that kind of fly that lays its eggs in rotting meat? You know the ones, little white maggots wriggling everywhere. Those. Arthur M. Jolly

Wriggling hands like young bride's legs. Bulgarian Proverb

Life is like a candle in the wind; like frost on the roof; like the wriggling of the fish in the pan. Chinese Proverb

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