Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after. From LearnThat.org. [Jonathan Swift]
China, the most populous nation of the globe, was in convulsion, its regime still undecided. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years at the World Bank] Reference
The book has an epic scope — it is a picture of a planet in convulsion — without foregoing the detail of everyday life or a sense of the moment. From Wordnik.com. [A Different Stripe:] Reference
The convulsion is a substitute for the criminal act. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Hugh Sidey is wrong,10 there will be no "convulsion" in the FBI if Hoover is not replaced immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Will]
A kind of convulsion passed over John Lawson's thin face; but he pressed his hand closely on his breast, and was silent for some moments. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850] Reference
Kenyan society is in some kind of convulsion, and people have things to say about it. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
He was seized with terror, and, in a kind of convulsion, hurled what he thought had become a living head against the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
"Let's hope your hearts can take this kind of convulsion; 'he said as Kamiton's spine arched grotesquely. From Wordnik.com. [Freedoms Challenge]
"convulsion," because the word (...) (seismos) means much more than a mere earthquake, as the context clearly shows. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Revelation] Reference
He had almost a convulsion one day on hearing that. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Queres stocks resulting from the convulsion of 1680. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
It is not surprising they brought on that convulsion. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Their very utterance threw me into a sort of convulsion. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Then while they were canceling the show, I had a convulsion. From Wordnik.com. ['I'm the Devil, Man'] Reference
Such prosperity hardly seems to bode a political convulsion. From Wordnik.com. [The Message From 1896?] Reference
The convulsion of nature that transformed this peaceful valley of Southern. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
"" Rather, it's another convulsion in a very knotty and difficult process. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Looking For Leverage] Reference
A sleepy, comatose condition may end in death, or the animal dies in a convulsion. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Erysipelas begins with usually a severe chill (or convulsion in a baby) and fever. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
In a convulsion of frantic terror, again, during the passage of one frenzied moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Especially if you're thinking about going into a "good grades" convulsion this school year. From Wordnik.com. [The Stir: 20 Lessons That Will Take You Further in Life Than Good Grades] Reference
The disease sets in suddenly; the animal trembles, staggers, falls and dies in a convulsion. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Even as he watched, the gelatinous mass shuddered in a last convulsion, then became quite still. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
She had another convulsion in the emergency room, and by the time Ruminjo saw her she was brain-dead. From Wordnik.com. [A Global Health Crisis You Should Know About] Reference
Has there been a moment since the end of the world convulsion of 1939 to 1945 when so much was in motion?. From Wordnik.com. [Whirl Is King All Around Us] Reference
An infantile convulsion corresponds to a chill in an adult, and is the most common brain affection among children. 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
Seizures can be fatal, especially the rare status epilepticus, a continuous convulsion lasting longer than 10 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [In the Grip of the Unknown] Reference
The convulsion generally lasts two or three minutes; sometimes, however, as long as ten or fifteen minutes, but rarely. 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
Massetti's convulsion had passed away, his hands had uncurled and his unearthly pallor had been succeeded by a faint flush. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
His voice was a spur rudely galvanizing her into action, into an awkward convulsion that landed her on her knees beside Timmy. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
The body temperature is extremely high, the pulse beats weak, the animal trembles, falls to the ground and dies in a convulsion. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The geologic formations tell us of a time when no life could exist -- long ages of convulsion and change in the crust of the globe. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
The ground, with the town upon it, is said to have been ingulfed during a volcanic convulsion, when the lake was formed in its place. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
When English and German ideas had passed thus over our heads there ensued disgust and mournful silence, followed by a terrible convulsion. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Certain gentlemen desired me to go and dress him; which I did at their request; but in dressing him he died under my hands in a convulsion. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
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