The thing thrashed to the shore and struggled up the bank.

Its one rolling, swollen eye was fixed on Cardiff even as the thing thrashed with blackened, elongated and monstrously deadly arms at the brickwork, trying to heave itself through the aperture and into the basement.

Cardiff saw Rohmer, Duvall and Gilbert recoil towards him as the hideous black-glistening thing thrashed amidst the collapsing detritus of its entry.

The scaly thing in his stomach thrashed.

I only wish the old thing would thrash itself to pieces and be done with it.

Before it finally broke into plain view, I became aware that it was not alone, for a few yards in its rear a second thing thrashed through the leafy jungle.

Silly thing was thrashing all around as it fell, making it hard to catch, but I did manage to eat it before it hit the ground.

The flesh was splitting open, revealing a hide of interlocked black scales like the surface of the pyramid, and the thing thrashed as if trying to escape a cocoon.

The thing thrashed violently underneath me, but couldn't break free of my hold.

The thing was thrashing violently.