What is "throes"

Usage examples of "throes".

There was yolk all over the place and crumpled shells for, in its death throes, the snake's dead body had convulsed, completely destroying the nest.

In the throes of that cruel disappointment, I know I lost my case when I blurted out that I had, after all, been fostered with Suriana, Alessan's wife, dead of an unfortunate fall from her wild runnerbeast.

He had been caught in the violent throes of one of his own magical exper iments, the tragedy melting away all of his facial features and leaving behind a blank hot spot of white and green goo.

In the throes of the mind flayer's hypnosis, Drizzt found himself overwhelmed.

Harkle caught the aroma, but paid it little heed as he was in the throes of the final runes of his own spell by then.

With a nimble leap Drizzt joined them, then turned back to see Cadderly waving and smiling, his associate already in the throes of spellcasting.

He would never have put it past Jarlaxle to have played such opposing games with his underlings in days past, leading Entreri in one direction and Sharlotta in another, but he knew that the mercenary leader was in the throes of Crenshinibon's hunger now, and given the information supplied by Dwahvel, he understood the truth of that.

Drunk or not, he had finally noticed that, despite Greyanna's efforts to keep it warm, it was moving stiffly, awkwardly, as Sabal, even in the throes of her illness, never had.

Undercreatures babbled, cooked, ate, drank, tended a still, brawled, twitched and moaned in the throes of sickness, shook and cuffed their shrieking infants, threw dice, fornicated, relieved themselves, and, amazingly, slept, all in plain view of anyone with the ill luck to look in their direction.

Beside him was Plennafrey, also in the throes of regaining consciousness.

Her scream, tearing at his taut nerves, brought him round to witness the initial throes of her bereavement.

The cove before him, generally calm with leisurely waves, was roiled with the activity of fish diving, lifting their bodies above the surface and crashing awkwardly down again as if in the throes of pain.

They've been in the throes of civil war for well over eight hundred years.

She might have been carved from marble, and Shelby was having a difficult time picturing this woman in the throes of any mating urge.

She would relive the night of their mating, the horrible circumstance in which a heart attack took Voltak from her while they were in the throes of Pon Farr.