convulsive motions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He was suffering from a bad cold, which doubled him up in convulsive coughing spells and made his eyes heavy and bloodshot. From Wordnik.com. [Yellow Handkerchief] Reference
Although not a surrealist, Gray does ascribe to the idea of convulsive beauty: beauty, even grim beauty, in the service of liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Ecstatic Days] Reference
Ms. Lawrence said she was "convulsive" when she was first asked. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Bronstein: Forget Naughty and Nice, This Year Santa's Got a Political Agenda] Reference
But history has shown that these big, "convulsive" plans rarely fit real world circumstances and in the 20th century were typically disastrous. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Gruber: Urban Design, the Book: Part Two of a Review] Reference
"Gone home," he answered, with a kind of convulsive grin. From Wordnik.com. [The Portent & Other Stories] Reference
Then in a kind of convulsive outburst came, 'Death, death!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Grimke Sisters]
She gave his hand the kind of convulsive clutch that signified. From Wordnik.com. [A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories] Reference
Then of a sudden she exclaimed with a kind of convulsive shudder. From Wordnik.com. [Love Eternal] Reference
He jerked his arms and stamped his feet in a kind of convulsive frenzy. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Four] Reference
The orphan drew himself up and clutched his flute in a kind of convulsive indignation. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series] Reference
Bozley proceeded to go into some kind of convulsive maneuver, rolling and flopping around like. From Wordnik.com. [Bend Blogs] Reference
Clara sigh, and perceived that a kind of convulsive shuddering had seized her; and he held her the tighter. From Wordnik.com. [The Sand-Hills of Jutland] Reference
The majority of seizures were non-convulsive, meaning that they were not visible to an observer and could only be detected by continuous EEG. From Wordnik.com. [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference
Silent But Deadly: a Master of Puppets-era speed song that has a very heavy hand into amelodic harmonies and what I thought of as 'convulsive' riffs. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
A week passed away in such kind of convulsive meditations, my attachment to methodism daily declining, and at last changing into something like aversion and horror. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
"'Gone home,' he answered, with a kind of convulsive grin. From Wordnik.com. [Adela Cathcart, Volume 3] Reference
From time to time he clasped his hands over his crossed knees, and I heard him each time repeat, with a kind of convulsive movement, "Moscow!. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of the private life of Napoleon]
He stirs faintly, a convulsive shudder runs through his limbs. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
And again she began to wring her hands with convulsive weeping. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
It was only a convulsive sob, or violent and smothered laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"I think he will," responded the General, with a convulsive smile. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The convulsive dissolution of Albania led to changes in high places. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Lily, for her sole answer, gave a convulsive sob; a tear leaped to her eyelids. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
I could, for the convulsive sobs that shook my frame almost stopped my utterance. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
I could discern was that occasioned ever and anon by a convulsive catching of her breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
So now, in one convulsive move, State has gone from a marginalized agency to a central one. From Wordnik.com. [The World According to Rice] Reference
She traversed the Place de la Concorde with the same convulsive haste, and passed toward the bridge. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In attempting to swallow, a convulsive cough comes on; mouth hot and tongue coated with a white fur. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Presently there was a convulsive struggle, a faint sound like a soft, hoarse whisper, and Seela was dead. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
He gave a nervous little laugh and his hand had a convulsive movement, as though to strangle those pests. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
She was still laughing at it, with little convulsive movements of the shoulders, and stammering out things. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Clutching this in a convulsive grasp, he regained his foothold, which he had almost lost, and struggled forward. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Despite convulsive therapy's 70-year history, doctors still aren't sure exactly how ECT works to ease depression. From Wordnik.com. [High-Powered Treatment] Reference
L had wrapped both arms around the head of his brother, and was crushing it with convulsive force against himself. From Wordnik.com. [Good Blood] Reference
Chios kneeling before her, and, with a wild, convulsive start, she fell upon his neck, crying, 'Save me! save me! '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Samantha's identity is so invested in her audacious sexuality that all the contradictions produce a convulsive fit, a fugue state. From Wordnik.com. ['Sex And The City 2': Sheiks, Shrieks And Eeks] Reference
"-- She was pale, and she heaved convulsive sighs and wrung her soft, warm hands, and a white pearl rolled from her dark lashes, and --". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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