I am not sure that there was a great decrease in the actual physical suffering; I do know that the period of the paroxysm was reduced, since resistance seemed merely to prolong it. From LearnThat.org. [Ray Stannard Baker (1870-1946) pseudonym: David Grayson U.S. author, biographer, from Under My Elm by David Grayson.]
A paroxysm of giggling. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Her innards were in paroxysm, violently expelling what they no longer recognized as food. From Wordnik.com. [Hungry] Reference
The Greek word is the root of the English word paroxysm, which in medicine can stand for a seizure. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
Saul had what would now be called a paroxysm of insanity. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
Under such media the disease, par excellence, of the Gaboon is the paroxysm which is variously called Coast, African, Guinea, and. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
Furex was a strange creature, a Limousin stonemason who worked steadily all the week and drank himself into a kind of paroxysm on. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
After experiencing her first "paroxysm," she happily signs on for daily appointments. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Blade - Gay News] Reference
Her excitement at seeing him again amounted to a 'paroxysm' which made her ill for a week. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
Closing his eyes, his body trembled or shuddered with a kind of paroxysm, and apparently with. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life] Reference
He arose in a paroxysm of wrath and left the house. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
She flung herself in a paroxysm of anger out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
That sent both boys off into another paroxysm of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
A paroxysm of sobs suddenly racked the girl's slender body. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
He waited for the paroxysm to pass -- waited grimly, but with. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
After a while the paroxysm of drunkenness is completely formed. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
"A sudden paroxysm, your Excellency," he replied in a low voice. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
In badly infected cases the paroxysm of coughing is quite severe. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
When a paroxysm of coughing occurs, considerable mucus is expelled. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Then the paroxysm passed and he took up his restless movements again. From Wordnik.com. [Droozle] Reference
"It's true!" he said, and flung out his arms in a paroxysm of despair. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Natrum mur. 30, and awaited the result until after the third paroxysm. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
A momentary paroxysm seemed to shake the very foundations of his being. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
A violent, paroxysm of coughing seized and shook him this way and that. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
During the paroxysm dashing cold water in the face is a common remedy. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
In a paroxysm of grief I fell on the bed and gave free course to my tears. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She recognized your voice, and fell immediately into the most fearful paroxysm. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Throughout the sermon Archie B. kept the young Hillites in a paroxysm of smirks. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
If the first paroxysm of his passion had passed, Lessingham was still sufficiently stern. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
In the midst of this paroxysm of furious anger, two or three knocks resounded behind the woodwork. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Suddenly his angry mood passed away, and he threw himself into a chair, in a paroxysm of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
Once before his removal, and once since, he had been seized with a paroxysm of undeniable insanity. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
As fiercely beautiful as a hawk in her leather dress, she enters in a paroxysm of over-enunciation and florid gestures. From Wordnik.com. [Curtain Calls] Reference
It might never have been discovered had the Canadians not skated flawlessly and the French lady judge succumbed to a paroxysm of guilt. From Wordnik.com. [Scoring Without Scandal?] Reference
Its president broke down and bawled before the cameras -- an astonishing paroxysm of shame that officials later learned was well justified. From Wordnik.com. [Into The Deep] Reference
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