WRING OUT • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Wring out

... you children come bothering here," said she, crossly. "I want to wring out my clothes, and hang them to dry. Be ...

— The Adventures of A Brownie - As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock • Miss Mulock

... answers he should be put to the torture. James, who was doubtless sorry that he could not feast his own eyes with the sight of Argyle in the boots, sent down to Edinburgh positive orders that nothing should be omitted which could wring out of the traitor information against all who had been concerned in the treason. But menaces were vain. With torments and death in immediate prospect Mac Callum More thought far less of himself than of his poor clansmen. "I was busy this day," he wrote from his cell, ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay