| 单词 | convulsive |
| 例句 | She was aiming, positioning the blades of the shears, then cutting with a convulsive jerk of the hands. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee’s mind said a convulsive prayer for guidance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z From time to time, certain termites make a convulsive movement of their mandibles to produce a loud, high- pitched clicking sound, audible ten meters off. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The convulsive force was so great that the water rushed out of the city’s harbor and returned in a wave fifty feet high, adding to the destruction. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Adah’s weak side was overtaken by convulsive trembling, and Rachel seemed to be in a trance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knows him!” and, after a few convulsive efforts, the red legs took the shape of a pair of compasses, and the intelligent pupil triumphantly shouted, “It’s a We, Dranpa, it’s a We!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at his hands carefully, as if he really cared about inspecting them, and his mouth worked in a strange, convulsive grimace. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The collie made a desperate, convulsive effort and rolled over, the silent white leech still hanging from his throat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he remembered what had happened to Lyra, and sat up with a convulsive shock. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “The dancing part reminds me of something, of some convulsive condition I read about once. I’ll do some research. Come down in the morning and we’ll tackle the obit.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Curtain erupted into laughter again, a long fit of convulsive screeching. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z No sooner had I plunged into the river and, with convulsive strokes, my hand still holding my musket above the water, set out to cross it, than I saw Olakunde following Bono. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Convict number 5,066, aged about thirty years . . . was brought to the hospital in a perfectly unconscious state and with convulsive twitchings of the muscles. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With a convulsive gasp, he bent forward and shut his eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He could feel Piggy's head against his shoulder and the convulsive grip of a hand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Mr. Struthers replaced his pince-nez in one convulsive movement and gave vent to a soft cough of discomfiture. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Billy was involuntarily making convulsive sounds that were a lot like laughter. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She gasped as another convulsive pain ripped through her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Pipkin had cried and trembled piteously at the death of Scabious, and Acorn and Speedwell had been seized with convulsive choking as Bluebell told of the poisonous gas that murdered underground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Heaving up again, wrenching away from the pain, she bent her writhing limbs beneath her and sprang backwards in a convulsive leap. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Stamp, stamp, he went, striking the wood he trod on with a convulsive grip at every pace. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The effect was galvanizing: his muddied half-chewed tail stirred and he raised his shoulders, then his forelegs, with a convulsive effort, like an old work horse getting up after a fall. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z With that, and a convulsive squeeze of Herbie’s unresponsive metal fingers, she left. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He comes on stage pretty much the same way, and conducts with the same big, loose, convulsive gestures, regardless. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner Is this convulsive chapter in world history really the time for a drawn-out dialogue by such a pair on the existential and moral implications of childbirth? ‘Lungs’ Review: Claire Foy and Matt Smith Chase Love in the Dark 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z The poll tax riots, unlike the race riots of 1981, did not cement the Thatcher government's hold on power, but were a symptom of its convulsive death agonies. Film review: One Night in Turin 2010-05-06T21:30:00Z Another man picks him up, in a pietà-shaped cradle carry, then sets him back down before helping him rise again with a convulsive, windmilling, resurrecting dance. Review: Afro-Colombian Dancing Reawakens the Joyce Theater 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z This convulsive performance won Ms. Adjani the best actress prize at Cannes, although the director recalls that upon her initial viewing of the film she retreated to the nearest bathroom to feign cutting her wrists. ?Hysterical Excess,? Andrzej Zulawski Films at BAMcin?matek 2012-03-04T04:13:02Z At first Liv disregards him, but as the novel winds towards its convulsive ending, she becomes convinced of the literal truth of his tale. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z In his review of the London production last November, my colleague Ben Brantley called Mr. van Hove’s production convulsive and immersive. The Shows I’m Afraid to Look Forward To 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Rivera’s home country, 5,000 miles from Paris, was then deep into a bloody peasant revolution — a convulsive civil war that would drag on for another five years. LACMA's uneven new Picasso and Rivera show reveals an unprecedented, must-see discovery 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z There were winners and losers, and their story is one of convulsive struggle. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In fact, Mr. Bush seems intent on making you remember Ms. Hawn, right down to his star’s pixie hairdo and convulsive giggle. | 'Cactus Flower': Honey, I?m Married, and Here?s My Wife 2011-03-11T03:01:25Z Then there’s the racial reckoning fueled by centuries of fear and death visited unto Black people in America — and renewed by 2020’s convulsive events. Halloween in 2020: Some fun with death and fear, anyone? 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z But his work exerts an odd fascination on me: for it brazenly mixes calculation and naïveté, Christian values and chitlin-circuit earthiness, rowdy jokes and the most convulsive melodrama. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z Their movement is fluid and gestural, full of little convulsive tics, sharp, arrowing legs and an inventive use of floor work. Dance Review: YelleB Dance Ensemble at the Joyce SoHo 2010-05-28T21:57:00Z Ms. Hyltin’s “It hurts more than you think,” elicits a tiny moan and increasingly convulsive staggers. Review: In ‘Platform 2015,’ the Beauty of Ragged Edges at Danspace Project 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z “Der Rosenkavalier,” a bittersweet parable of a society on the verge of convulsive transformation, became merely a plush, pretty nostalgia trip. Critic’s Notebook: Opera’s Sad Goodbye? How About, ‘Good Riddance’? 2013-12-30T22:21:55Z “I could feel my face go white, feel a sudden convulsive twitch in the muscles of my face.” “Keep the flag flying”: Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s escape from the Philippines, 1942 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z A few years later he began suffering prolonged convulsive fits accompanied by loss of consciousness. Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin – review 2013-06-27T07:00:18Z Ms. Tayeh’s, by far the flashiest and most convulsive — with the leggiest extensions — resembled a good routine on “So You Think You Can Dance,” for which she has often choreographed. Review: Martha Graham Dance Revisits a Classic in Gala 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z I am always open to the convulsive transformation. Luis Alberto Urrea: By the Book 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It initially seems like an invitation for Don to reprise the rhetorical greatness of seasons past and point the way forward after a convulsive decade of battle in matters business, marital and literal. 'Mad Men' Recap: Don Draper's Gettysburg Address 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z And it was preceded by an almost convulsive surge of artistic creativity that generated some of the moving sculptures ever made, including those seen here. Desert Empires: Wonders to Behold 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z It was a convulsive year not only for Hollywood, but also for Vanity Fair. Inside the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z A fluid rhapsodist to the core, he sometimes seemed to be reaching for a sturdier, less convulsive rhythmic underlay than the one his band mates were giving him. Music Review: Band?s Rapport Runs Deep, and the Undertow Swings 2011-02-23T22:59:31Z Not only does Espinosa make Rory’s convulsive death repulsively terrifying, he uses the weightless environment to show the blood and gore floating around his corpse. “Life” Is Full of Horrors 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Those convulsive chuckles alerted the audience that Knight is not the callow person that he plays, nor is Stewart that sottish prig. The joy of corpsing: why giggling fits the theatre 2010-10-21T09:36:00Z Playing the evil entity with convulsive movements and a killer manicure, the contortionist Marina Mazepa turns in the movie’s most entertaining performance. ‘The Unholy’ Review: ‘There’s Something About Mary’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Then there’s the racial reckoning fueled by centuries of fear and death visited unto Black people in America — and renewed by 2020’s convulsive events. Halloween in 2020: Some fun with death and fear, anyone? 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z With the preacher’s shuddering, convulsive movements, he offers fragmented human motion as a metaphor for social disintegration. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Indeed, his grand return to moviemaking one-upped the convulsive shootout that brutally ended the bank robbers’ spree, and yet he was just as preoccupied with the moment’s social significance. The Wild Bunch at 50: the enduring nihilism of Sam Peckinpah's western 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Watching her frantic, convulsive, desperate final dance to her death, you were shaken to the core. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet Leaps Across the Centuries 2010-12-23T12:30:02Z Here, Billy is exposed to a newfangled procedure in the annals of psychiatry — electric convulsive therapy. Pushed From the Clock Tower, Buried in the Yard 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z But the principal struggle is internal, as revealed in the convulsive solo that begins and ends the work: Don José, tortured by the desire that will destroy him. Ballet Hispanico’s Take on ‘Carmen’ in ‘Carmen.maquia’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The audience can't decide whether it's witnessing the death throes of a legend or the convulsive birth of a new kind of screen nudity. Naked in New York: Gérard Depardieu strips for the big screen 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Immersing himself in Havana’s convulsive and euphoric newfound freedom, he recalled, “I soon understood that I could get closer to the feel of things by taking pictures.” Charles Harbutt, Photojournalist With an Eye for Art as Well as News, Dies at 79 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The dancing is convulsive and self-lacerating — but also beautiful, and at times tender. Before the World Shut Down, a ‘Rite of Spring’ on a Senegal Beach 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z As this convulsive, cacophonous midterm election campaign reaches its end, no exhibition captures the national mood quite like “Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy,” a nightmarish show at the Met Breuer. How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The current convulsive instant may pass but not so much the human condition. The Glamour Cure 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Once the body’s temperature approaches 90 degrees, the shivering may become convulsive, seizure-like. Border fence’s devastating toll 2012-09-18T22:00:00Z Ten women drive through hard, slicing, geometric formations; lights flash, electro-percussive music reverberates; and the air becomes as thick and swarming as a tropical thunderstorm as the movement accelerates towards its convulsive climax. Ballet Preljocaj – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-19T15:57:12Z The news lands with that familiar, convulsive ache that the death of young people brings. Police kill a white teen, and the silence raises questions 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The machinery of production and distribution is in the midst of an epochal change, part of the rapid and convulsive digitalization of everything under the sun. Film Technology Advances, Inspiring a Sense of Loss 2011-11-20T01:37:25Z He sends letters to people on both sides of the Atlantic seeking artistic contributions to a magnum opus for the anti-movement that turned the senselessness of world war into something convulsive. A Plan to Spread Dada Worldwide, Revisited at MoMA 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Reich, capturing the mood of this convulsive moment, presented guilty ex-Stalinists and former Trotskyites with an alternative programme of sexual freedom with which to combat those totalitarian threats. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z But his skill was to find a poetic voice that was at once distinctive and sinuous enough to reflect and adapt itself to the convulsive times in which he became intricately entangled. Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest by Susan Bridgen - review 2012-12-14T22:55:11Z It is a surprising, convulsive twist, as if one of the characters had got his hands on Evans’s draft and decided to “punch it up.” In “Ordinary People,” Diana Evans Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The opening scene of this convulsive, immersive adaptation of the 1976 movie about how television hijacked reality is a bravura exercise in torturously applied pressure. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Andre Breton famously wrote that “beauty will be convulsive or not at all” — but there is nothing romantic in Carrington’s lived experience of enforced convulsions and deranged senses. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Hours can pass in total quiescence, then a rod suddenly bursts into convulsive life. Life Lessons from “Fishing With Dad” 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z It's a work full of ironic cumbia, rockabilly and tropical-tronica tunes, with a straightforward commentary on the zeitgeist of our beautiful but convulsive country. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z “I feel proud of my great-grandparents and my grandparents, who set up the restaurant. They were survivors. They had to live through a very convulsive time. They had to leave their country.” For 115 years, one restaurant has fed the elite in Berlin and now Madrid. Nazis included. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The real story of the show is Elliot’s journey to resolve a convulsive identity crisis and make some sort of sense of himself. Rami Malek of ‘Mr. Robot’: The Face of Hacktivism 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z And his trio, with the bassist Henry Grimes and the drummer Chad Taylor, suggested both a convulsive departure from the club’s center-lane programming and the reverent ennobling of a chapter in its history. Music Review: Marc Ribot Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-06-27T20:46:58Z “Mad Men’s” seventh-season premiere last week found nearly every character stuck in some sort of stasis, despite the convulsive change swirling. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Watch: The (Madison Avenue) Gods Must Be Crazy 2014-04-21T15:12:21Z In a period when Europe underwent a number of profound, convulsive changes, this was perhaps the most important of all. Understanding the universe 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The second was Ravel's La Valse, fastidiously done, but suitably convulsive at its close. Prom 57: GMJO/Gatti – review 2012-08-27T11:29:57Z Slipped into “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” among the torrential bullets and convulsive mayhem, is a protracted advertisement for a Mercedes-Benz S.U.V. Review: In Michael Bay’s ‘13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,’ Clarity Isn’t the Objective 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Cynics thought it hopeless, given a basic human reflex for rage and convulsive war. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z But he also retains the frothing enthusiasm of the newborn fanboy, and he tears into convulsive, obscenity-peppered rants that emulate the riffs of his favorite artists. Review: In ‘The Holler Sessions,’ a D.J. as True Believer 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley's Frankenstein contains a kind of male labour for Victor Frankenstein, whose "toils" and "agony" bring his creation to life with "a convulsive motion". Can fiction give life to childbirth? 2011-03-03T15:22:49Z Readers who responded as fully I did to the book are unlikely to feel the same convulsive emotions watching the end of DH2. Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise 2011-07-10T05:45:00Z "Such crises are resolved through understanding and reliance on rationality, away from the language of emotion and convulsive populist statements that only produce more crises and tension", Sudani was quoted as telling his cabinet. Iraq wants to overcome dispute with Kuwait over maritime waterway, PM says 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Because those effects are difficult to observe in living patients, most studies are done on human brains post-mortem — as Meduna did in the early days of convulsive therapies — or on rodents. The persistent mysteries of electroconvulsive therapy 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z I would maintain that this convulsive era came to an end the following year, when a civil jury in Santa Monica found Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend. Opinion: The Menendez brothers have been behind bars for 33 years. Is that long enough? 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z But this time, the problems are of a different order, magnified by Britain’s faltering economy and its convulsive, post-Brexit politics. A National Treasure, Tarnished: Can Britain Fix Its Health Service? 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Medical records seen by the AP confirmed that she had a brain cyst, as well as “residual encephalopathy” and “general convulsive attacks.” Ukrainian civilians vanish and languish in Russian-run jails 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z I think there's no question that the world is going through a really convulsive and dangerous phase. Putin's brain and the Ukraine disaster: What does the Russian leader really want? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z But the rest of “Liberation Day” is less powerful, as if the convulsive quality that makes art great has diminished. George Saunders' saintly, disappointing new stories: A tender-hearted takedown 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z After 15 months of Haiti’s convulsive descent into pandemonium following the assassination of its president, there is at last serious discussion of international intervention to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the tormented island nation. Opinion | Yes, intervene in Haiti — and push for democracy 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Through all these decades of convulsive change, Elizabeth has been as constant as the Rock of Gibraltar, one of the remnants of the time when the sun really didn’t set on the British Empire. Queen Elizabeth II kept her promise 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z In that century’s first, convulsive half, Rivera had a massive and generally under-acknowledged influence on art up and down the Americas. Review | San Francisco’s Diego Rivera exhibition is the largest in 20 years 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z In this convulsive moment, I think about other evenings in the theater that might bolster and inform us as a community, other examples of how theater sheds light on who and where we are. Perspective | At a time of angry uproar, theater can still show us the way forward 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z “Overhauling the admissions process at this late date would be convulsive,” the school board argued in its response. Board defends admissions policy at prestigious high school 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z They wanted a modestly higher inflation target, not a convulsive leap to nearly 8 percent. Opinion | The painful lesson for inflation doves: Be careful what you wish for 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z This “indoor skyscraper” becomes a convulsive landscape of psychic disorder, ruin piled atop chaos. Review: L.A. gallery-going during Omicron isn't optimal but offers excellent art along the way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z She had trouble accepting the cause of her convulsive retching. Medical mystery: Back pain plagued her for 30 years. A recurring clue sparked a delayed diagnosis. 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z That same week, I developed a high fever and convulsive cough. My whole family was infected in India’s devastating coronavirus surge. Not all survived. 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s not hard to see many of the same threads today: racial injustice, economic inequity, convulsive technological change. In visions of post-pandemic life, Roaring ’20s beckon again 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z A convulsive 11 seconds of violence ending in the death of an Ohio teen. 35 minutes of chaos colored fatal shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z “If hate prevails in May next year, Mr. Macron will be defeated. If it’s fear, after a convulsive period, faced by an uncertain future, then he will win.” Eyeing Re-election, Macron Walks a Tightrope Above Swirling Crises in France 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z But it had been replaced by a wave of convulsive chills that persisted for two hours. My ‘Long Covid’ Nightmare: Still Sick After 6 Months 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z I write now on what is being called a day of infamy, when the cumulative crisis of an aberrant presidency is producing a last convulsive spasm. From afar, a longtime fan of America looks at the country in dismay 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Initially, medics noted his death as a “respiratory arrest after a convulsive crisis.” Death of Detained Ukrainian Causes Uproar in Portugal 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z “I think that this is much more about the end stages of a very, very convulsive presidency,” Mr. Haberman added. NYT’s Maggie Haberman: Donald Trump lacks competency, ambition needed to carry out a coup 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Then there’s the racial reckoning fueled by centuries of fear and death visited unto Black people in America - and renewed by 2020’s convulsive events. Halloween in 2020: Some fun with death and fear, anyone? 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The postponement was a landmark in a convulsive 96-hour stretch for Florida that prompted questions about its commitment to public health. L.S.U. at Florida Football Game Postponed as Gators Face Virus Outbreak 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Morgan employed this distinctive motion, which sometimes seemed to be convulsive, throughout his career, and it became a kind of trademark. Joe Morgan, Hall of Fame Second Baseman, Is Dead at 77 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z As Hutu militiamen rampaged through the streets in a convulsive slaughter, Mr. Rusesabagina, a Hutu, employed his wiles and the resources of his Belgian-owned hotel — beer, cash, and charm — to fend off the killers. How the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Fell Into a Vengeful Strongman’s Trap 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z But to many in Kenosha — taking stock of a convulsive week ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned visit Tuesday — it’s not as simple as that. 2 shootings, 2 days, 2 miles: US inequality microcosm bared 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The convulsive Senate battle had reached a climax, and for Ms. Rice’s party an unhappy one: Senator Susan Collins, the Maine Republican, had just announced her support for Justice Kavanaugh, effectively sealing his victory. Susan Rice Wants to Run for Office. Will Her First Campaign Be for V.P.? 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z These forces are converging as the country hurtles toward a convulsive presidential election. AMERICA DISRUPTED: Troubles cleave a nation, and a city 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Like so many of the founders, Jefferson is in the middle of a convulsive reappraisal, one of many ways in which the country feels deeply divided as it enters its birthday weekend. Love of science, not Trump's ignorance, will make America great again 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z My fascination — immediate, convulsive — came not only from the beauty but also from my realization that such beauty had surrounded me during decades of wandering these woods, without my ever having noticed it. The Unexpected Beauty of ‘Dog Vomit’ and Other Slime Molds 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Despite it all — a nation on edge, with an untamed pandemic and convulsive protests over police brutality — for the first time in three months there is a scent of economic optimism in the air. Don’t Lose the Thread. The Economy Is Experiencing an Epic Collapse of Demand. 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z It’s hard to declare that from within, but it certainly has most of the convulsive themes that have driven and riven U.S. history since its beginnings. History, right now: Echoes of 1968, and other American years 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z He was only three feet from the hole, said Jones, but gave such a convulsive twitch at the ball that it shot across the green into a bunker. The Yips—If You’ve Had ’Em, You’ve Got ’Em - Golf Digest 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z It also came after a convulsive day in Washington, with riveting testimony in Washington’s impeachment hearings extending to just before the candidates took the stage. What happened in the Democratic debate: Candidates squabble over black voters, draw contrasts with Trump 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z A convulsive series of events began in mid-October, with unexpected angry protests in normally stable Chile. What Do Lula’s Release and Morales’s Ouster Signal for Latin America? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The album rewards your undivided attention, especially on headphones, as Kiwanuka colours and shades his songs with laid-back beats, torrid guitars, majestic strings, harps, brass, percussion, convulsive jazz chords and call-and-response gospel hooks. Michael Kiwanuka: 'I am not an imposter' 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z The portrait explores the contradictions of Johnson’s own life and the often erratic, convulsive progress of civil rights on UK’s campus and in the United States more generally, Hutchins said. 70 years after desegregation, UK looks forward and back 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z But NFL executives still seem to prefer QBs like Tom Brady, whose main threat as a runner is causing convulsive laughter among would-be tacklers. SNYDER: Offensive threats like Jackson make NFL life twice as nice 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z They pointedly refused and quit on a convulsive weekend that spawned the Saturday Night Massacre but did not derail the independent investigation or Nixon’s collapse for long. Brexit politics of retribution snares Churchill relative 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Rittenberg was twice imprisoned and spent 16 years in solitary confinement, swept up in the fickle tyranny and convulsive whims of his friend Mao Zedong. Sidney Rittenberg, American adviser to the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 98 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s no surprise to neurologists that some people experience convulsive seizures in the later stages of the disease. Role of Seizures in Alzheimer's Disease is Gaining Overdue Attention 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Stranding his characters in a terrifying psychological and supernatural labyrinth of their own making, he spun their feelings of grief, desire and dread into a convulsive yet startlingly coherent visual language. Appreciation: Nicolas Roeg, director of 'Don't Look Now,' was a darkly sensual poet of the screen 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z The story it tells is grim, a portent of nature altered and convulsive. The beginning of the end of America’s best idea 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Bullied at school and unable to respond to an innocuous greeting without apologizing for his convulsive awkwardness, Evan finds shelter in the isolation of his home. Review: A social media star is born in 'Dear Evan Hansen,' as the hit Broadway musical arrives in L.A. in tip-top form - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z It was about 26,000 light-years away from Earth, far removed from the galactic center and its convulsive effects. Streams of stars reveal the galaxy’s violent history—and perhaps its unseen dark matter 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z After several bouts of convulsive shock treatment, Ernest Hemingway committed suicide at the age of 61. Review | The Venetian teenager who stirred Hemingway’s heart and art 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z But for much of the past century Iran has been locked in a convulsive struggle between rulers wanting to maintain their prerogatives and the ruled seeking freedom. Don’t Fear Regime Change in Iran 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Though this bureaucratic rite takes place every time a new party occupies the White House, the convulsive turnover that took place in 2017 made the shift far more pronounced. Unlike those in the resistance, certain career officials’ stars have risen under Trump 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Sublime cinematic poetry nudges the experience back in time, before our convulsive digital age and before the emergence of talkies. Artist Olafur Eliasson built a 'Reality projector' of smashing beauty 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z This was a year of major, convulsive changes in the TV world, and no one is paying closer attention than the Tivo-er in the Oval Office. From Trump to #MeToo: A Dizzying Year in TV News 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z The climate change crisis is so far advanced that even drastically cutting greenhouse gas emissions won’t prevent a convulsive future by itself — the amount of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere ensures dire trouble ahead. Opinion | Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Green Planet 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z It is quite possible that moderate conservatism and moderate liberalism are inadequate to explain and tame the convulsive economic and social changes of our time. Opinion | Our political parties can’t save themselves 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Kogan certainly made an excitingly cogent case for it, pressing the tempos forward urgently, letting it get wild and woolly in the right convulsive spots, with all heroic flags waving in the final Maestoso section. Moscow State Symphony goes big and bold in Northridge – LA Times 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The convulsive mood on the right has considerably reshaped the political map for 2018, making a favorable list of Senate races somewhat less hospitable to Republicans. Roy Moore’s Alabama Victory Sparks Talk of a G.O.P. Insurrection 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Germany’s convulsive military expansion is, at least, a well-known chapter in world history, even for most Americans. The devil’s pact: Putin, the alt-right, and the long shadow of history 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z By the time I got to the bus stop, my legs were barely working, and I was in the grip of convulsive shudders. I took my first antidepressant this week. The effects were frightening | Deborah Orr 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z In 2011, the shooting of Giffords by a mentally ill assailant came during a convulsive political period, when a bitter debate over health care yielded a wave of threats against lawmakers. Shooting is latest eruption in grim ritual of rage — and blame 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z In 2011, the shooting of Ms. Giffords by a mentally ill assailant came during a convulsive political period, when a bitter debate over health care yielded a wave of threats against lawmakers. Shooting Is Latest Eruption in a Grim Ritual of Rage and Blame 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Over wobbly bass and convulsive drums, a sampled voice taunts, “Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in. Not tonight.” Richard Russell’s XL Recordings Empire 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z This disillusionment can be found in every pore of the frenetic Age of Adz, which plugs each gap with convulsive synths and drumbeats, channelling Arthur Russell but with very little of his minimalism. Sufjan Stevens – 10 of the best 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The flashbacks, most of which are brightly lighted to offset the restaurant’s dim interiors, get to be a bit much, but they also nicely suggest the convulsive inner workings of Paul’s deeply troubled mind. A strong Steve Coogan-led ensemble just about keeps 'The Dinner' on course 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z It is as if western democracies are exhibiting a convulsive physical reaction to the effects of globalization and its handmaidens of economic inequality and a perceived helplessness in the face of uncontrolled immigration. As the French Go to the Polls, Uncertainty Is the Only Sure Bet 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z He thought that the convulsive things that were happening to him were the result of his endeavor to become more confident, poised, and commanding. Death of a Dystopian 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Rogers is an unguarded and idiosyncratic performer, and watching her move—she seems to favor jarring, convulsive gestures, which are odd but unmistakably beautiful—it becomes harder still to situate her work on a continuum. Maggie Rogers, an Artist of her Time 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Tens of millions were persecuted and perhaps a million or more people were killed in that convulsive time. Historian’s Latest Book on Mao Turns Acclaim in China to Censure 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z He was responding to the most deflating moment of a convulsive season, three hours of slovenly poor football in a game that began and ended with infuriating displays of incompetence. Jay Gruden lights into the Redskins, who seem to need it 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z That convulsive process could explain mysterious folded rocks in Japan and beneath the East China Sea. 'Atlas of the Underworld' reveals oceans and mountains lost to Earth's history 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The eight works that Rauschenberg choreographed, with instructions such as “‘jerk leg up, roll forward in a convulsive manner”, were intended to be performed by the artist only. Robert Rauschenberg: ‘He was just something to be around’ 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z In none of the stables was “a single animal found with swelled throats, a copious discharge from the nose and eyes, and the convulsive fits of coughing which are said to characterize the Canadian epidemic.” Why the long face? Because in 1872, nearly every horse in Washington got very ill. 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z This, Frum went on to say, would result in “a convulsive situation after the election” that would all be Clinton’s fault. From Richard Nixon to Donald Trump: How right-wing myths about Tricky Dick fueled today’s nightmare 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Now she lost consciousness and suffered convulsive fits. Emma Donoghue’s Art of Starvation 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Now, concerning his defining promise to round up and deport 11 million undocumented men, women and children, Trump is undergoing a rapid, convulsive transition from Mr. Hyde into Dr. Jekyll. Trump’s repellent inner circle 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps coming out of our national anguish over the convulsive general election of 2016, our newly inaugurated president will institute another national conversation. Why Calls for a ‘National Conversation’ Are Futile 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z In the midst of one of the most consequential presidential campaigns in memory, those convulsive events raised the prospect of still deeper divides in a country already torn by racial and ideological animus. Shootings Further Divide a Nation Torn Over Race 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z For America, 1968 was a convulsive year: riots, assassinations, Vietnam and the election in November of Richard Nixon. Frozen in time: Bob Dylan at home with his son, June 1968 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z He has concentrated power in his own hands and flirted with a personality cult—the most haunting symbol of the Cultural Revolution, in which blind worship of a supreme leader kindled years of convulsive violence. Xi Embraces Mao’s Radical Legacy 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z They are veterans of the Cultural Revolution and their kin, who at the Qingming festival each year gather at the graves of family and friends killed in the convulsive movement that Mao unleashed upon China. Chaos of Cultural Revolution Echoes at a Lonely Cemetery, 50 Years Later 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is suggesting he understands the appeal of outsiders like Donald Trump in this year’s convulsive presidential campaign, even though he believes he’s more qualified to take the Oval Office. The Latest: Cruz suggests he understands outsider appeal 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Yet, while Franklin lived large, he preached a kind of black liberation theology—Baptist, but inflected at times with the more convulsive accents of the Pentecostal, or “sanctified,” church. Aretha Franklin’s American Soul 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z GW Pharmaceuticals said the drug was more effective than a placebo in reducing convulsive seizures in children with a rare type of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome, The New York Times reported. Health Highlights: March 15, 2016 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z GW said Monday that the 120-patient trial showed children taking the syrup-based medicine achieved a median reduction in monthly convulsive seizures of 39 percent compared with a reduction on placebo of 13 percent. Former South Carolina state trooper pleads guilty to felony charge 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The study involved 120 patients with an average age of 10 and an average frequency of 13 convulsive seizures a month at the start of the study, despite taking an average of three other drugs. Marijuana-Based Drug Found to Reduce Epileptic Seizures 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z We’ve spent the past century or so trying, in creaky and convulsive ways, to figure out what music is even for, and how we intend to use it. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z It unleashed a convulsive jolt of speculation that for a time reduced the summer resort to nothing. New York's faded playground: can Coney Island recapture lost glories? 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The average age of the 120 patients in the study was 10 and they suffered an average of 13 convulsive seizures a month at the start of the study, despite taking other drugs. Health Highlights: March 15, 2016 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The Brain Sentinel, a device held by an arm strap, aims specifically to record tonic-clonic seizures, the typical convulsive seizure that lasts one to three minutes. Wearable Devices Aim to Monitor Epileptic Seizures 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The developer, GW Pharmaceuticals, said the drug, Epidiolex, achieved the main goal of the trial, reducing convulsive seizures when compared with a placebo in patients with Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy. Marijuana-Based Drug Found to Reduce Epileptic Seizures 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Despite convulsive developments in Greece this year, Syriza’s margin of victory over its nearest rival was almost exactly the same as it was the last time the country voted. Syriza wins an emphatic victory in Greece and, with it, another chance 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z If anything, life in Iran after the nuclear accord is likely to become more harsh and politically convulsive. History Contradicts the Dream of Iranian Moderation 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z But now he “lay face upward, taking in his breath in convulsive, rattling snorts, and blowing it out in sputters of froth which crawled creamily down his cheeks, piling itself alongside his neck and ears.” America’s July 4 military nightmare: With our recent history, could we even beat the British today? 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z With oil prices now rising, and the ruble partially recovering its value, counting on convulsive economic trouble in Russia would be quixotic. Bill Bradley: 5 Steps for Peace in Ukraine 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It was an uneasy reminder of the convulsive media wars of last year when most news channels ganged up to drag down Geo TV. Pakistan rocked by 'fake degree' scandal - BBC News 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Among the 23 patients with Dravet syndrome who completed the study, the number of convulsive seizures fell by 53 percent, the investigators found. Liquid Medical Marijuana Shows Promise Against Severe Epilepsy 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The word is defined as follows: "To tumble with sudden convulsive movements." 25 years after it happened, Hank Gathers' death still brings a shudder 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z These days, the royals surely recognize that their chronically unstable neighborhood has entered a convulsive period. The Once and Future Saudi Kings 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z It was not for nothing that Cornell was widely known as the Big Red during the 1960s, when passions over civil rights and the war in Vietnam provoked convulsive student radicalism. Walter Berns, Whose Ideas Fueled Neoconservative Movement, Dies at 95 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The tsar had freed the serfs in 1861, helping to push Russia into the convulsive century that followed. How Everyone Gets Pavlov Wrong 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Get out, and with one convulsive act of renunciation, you can escape the complexity that blights your lives. Revolution by Russell Brand review – the barmy credo of a Beverly Hills Buddhist 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Officials were bracing for the prospect of one of the largest massacres in recent years of convulsive violence mostly related to drugs or organized crime. Bodies Are Found Close to Where Missing Students Clashed With Police in Mexico 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The sneering Missisippi band delivers convulsive rock-and-roll as drum-driven as its name suggests, but with an undeniable strain of Southern blues woven through. October’s top concerts: Mary Lambert, Nas and more Neither were they shocked to find prescription drugs ranging from antibiotics to the anti–convulsive carbamazepine. A Rising Tide of Contaminants 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z And everyone wonders when the convulsive nighttime violence that has turned Ferguson into an unpredictable "war zone" — as some officers have put it — will end. Protesters use hands-up gesture defiantly after Michael Brown shooting 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Two years ago, they showed that this device could accurately detect 94% of large convulsive seizures experienced by children with epilepsy1. Technology: Dressed to detect : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z With a convulsive rumble, followed by billowing flames and exhaust, a sleek 60-foot rocket emerged from its silo at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. $40 billion missile defense system proves unreliable 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z U Thiha Saw, a leading journalist, said this is the critical distinction between Myanmar and other societies going through convulsive transformations. A Myanmar in Transition Says Little of Past Abuses 2013-06-15T03:01:44Z Portugal is readying itself for a convulsive moment when the government attempts to bypass a constitutional court ruling that bans many of its most caustic austerity measures. Cyprus was just for starters – Ireland could provide the main course 2013-04-17T12:20:01Z The poison, Ms Blum said, disrupts the ability of cells to transport oxygen around the body, causing a convulsive, violent death. Lottery winner 'slain by cyanide' 2013-01-08T03:52:58Z In both countries, changes came from within the leadership and thus were much more gradual than the convulsive uprisings seen, for example, during the Arab Spring. Obama Visit Underscores Lack of Change for Myanmar’s Poor 2012-11-16T22:41:51Z Adjustment through domestic contraction is hugely painful, socially devastating and often politically convulsive. The eurozone can learn from financial crises in the developing world 2012-07-29T21:00:01Z Nowadays the widespread impression of the Cultural Revolution is a convulsive revolt against all authority. Insight: Children of Mao's wrath vie for power in China 2012-06-22T03:32:30Z Over one-half and perhaps two-thirds of all feeble-minded are subject to convulsive seizures at some period of their lives, and we are never surprised at the appearance of epilepsy in any feeble-minded person. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z It grew greater every moment, and at last a kind of convulsive motion was observed in the hands and feet of the corpse. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Still cursing and struggling, the wretch was hoisted, and five minutes elapsed ere his last convulsive motions ceased. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z No wonder that he seized with such convulsive grasp the hand of the dear youth. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z With his forty cases of concremation in fifteen years, Bernard Gui managed to crush the last convulsive struggle of Catharism, to keep the Waldenses in check, and repress the zealous ardor of the Spiritual Franciscans. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Louise shrunk aghast from her frantic mother, who, with convulsive eagerness, attempted to tear the bandages from her arm. The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes 2012-04-13T02:00:20.243Z I opened it with a convulsive movement, and slammed it after me. Annouchka A Tale 2012-04-13T02:00:19.120Z At that instant he would have given rank, and station, and all his wide domains, to have felt her clasp him with that convulsive grasp which sometimes proves fatal to both under such circumstances. Henry of Guise; (Vol. I of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:31.930Z "But I believe I could bear anything but this," said he, in a voice shaken by convulsive throes. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z When Mrs. Cobbold entered the cell, Margaret rose and curtsied respectfully, and the next moment the big tears rolled down her cheeks, and her chest heaved with convulsive emotion, as if her heart would break. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z In the convulsive struggles of the condemned with the evil demons, the most passionate energy displays itself, and the extraordinary skill of the artist here finds its most appropriate exercise. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z He stretched himself out and turned with a convulsive movement on his face. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z At the moment of the production of the phenomenon a convulsive trembling shook her whole body, and the pressure of her head on my temples was so intense that it hurt me. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z This adds a convulsive grasp of whatever is, a sense of a fallacious hollowness in all we see. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z Then he gradually slumped down on the reddened deck, and finally lay still, with once or twice a convulsive shiver running over him. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z Then with a convulsive shudder he fell forward on his face. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z In the course of a minute I observed several convulsive shivers pass through his frame, his eyes closed, and his head sunk back upon the cushions, apparently in sleep. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z This distance of space was purposely arranged in order that the hands of the neighboring persons might, in addition, readily hold those of the medium during the convulsive movements which usually agitate her. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z His hands were shaking, his lips moving with strange, convulsive jerks. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z As the men step to the deck of the Fearless the wreck, with one more convulsive shiver, plunges to her last resting place, but, thank God, with not one soul left upon her. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z A Lion, worn out with old age, lay fetching his last gasp, and agonizing in the convulsive struggles of death. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z His eyes sought in space for a time and with a convulsive movement he recognised a distant acquaintance and raised his hat. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z During this time her legs and her arms are in a state of marked tension, almost rigid, or even undergo convulsive contractions. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z They started back in affright when it made a last convulsive effort to rise. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z On June 29th the pulse was 96, temperature 100.5°; occasional convulsive attacks occurred, which were readily controlled by enemata of hydrate of chloral. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z He gave a convulsive leap into the air, and then as he fell I pushed him so that he rolled to one side. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z She falls on her knees, turned toward the grating of the prison; then she arises with a convulsive effort and disappears through the great door after Laffemas. The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z Thanks to the Surgeon's skill, Ropars' wife at length regained her senses; but it was to fall into convulsive spasms, followed by the annihilation of all her faculties. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z The man stood awhile contemplating her in silence, his gloomy eyes watching the pitiful movement of her shoulders, the convulsive heaving of her figure. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The same remedies are required to control the convulsive movements as when they occur under other circumstances. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The men were still between drunk and sober; and in the rebound of their relief staggered and clung to one another, and bent this way and that in a paroxysm of convulsive mirth. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z The sick Person seems to labour under great Anguish: he has sometimes slight convulsive Motions and Twitchings in his Face and his Hands, as well as in his Arms and Legs. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z Women, especially when educated in boarding-schools, essentially belong to this class, and are subject to hysterical and convulsive affections that render them a plague to others and a nuisance to themselves. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Withal he uttered for a time no word, though I saw his hand grip the riding-whip he held in a convulsive grasp, as though his thought were ''Tis mine! Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Of non-medicinal therapeutic measures the following are among the most promising: Perfect seclusion, quiet, and darkness serve to abate the hyper�sthesia, the painful acuteness of the senses, and the convulsive and delirious paroxysms. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z But presently, in the midst of my bewailing myself, and when the first convulsive fit of rage was abating, a new thought brought me to my feet in a panic. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z To mention the principal Indications for them in convulsive Cases, they are proper, 1, When the Convulsions still continue, after the original Cause of them is removed. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z It generally causes acceleration of the pulse and respiration, slight convulsive movements, somnolency, and, in a few cases, somnambulism. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z A slight convulsive shiver shook the boy's frame as the whip fell, but he clenched his teeth and no sound escaped him. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z Death, attended by convulsive rigors, generally closes the scene within seventy-two hours from the moment of seizure. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z In severe cases, however, a convulsive state of intense irritability develops in which the slightest sound or effort brings on a series of spasmodic seizures. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z In 1929, Hollywood was undergoing its most convulsive change, junking the silent movies that had made it a world-dominant industry and making the chaotic transition to talking pictures. Win Your Oscar Pool! TIME's Richard Corliss Gives Us His Picks in 14 Categories 2012-02-24T22:05:39Z They first reeled as if under the influence of liquor, and then fell dead with a slight convulsive struggle. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z With a convulsive wriggle the serval made a last attempt to bury its fangs in its victim's neck. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z I consider that convulsive seizures occurring in connection with marked catarrhal affection of the mucous membranes are very important aids in forecasting a probable attack of rubeola. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z With the expectant treatment, in convulsive cases, about 28 per centum of the women die, although a use of aconite in these cases may better the prognosis. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z A gasp and a convulsive spring forward brought the Colonel's open mouth suddenly against my face. Four Years A Scout and Spy 2012-02-23T03:00:37.640Z One grain and a half inoculated in a young dog killed it in four minutes, only producing one convulsive fit. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The hand of death arrested his progress, and he fell on his back, heaved a convulsive sigh and instantly expired without a groan. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z The old man seized the paper with a convulsive clutch. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z There are a series of attacks that occur in which there are some almost typical convulsive movements followed by loss of consciousness that simulate epilepsy very closely, yet are not true epilepsy. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Now and again a convulsive trembling passed over her; but except for that she lay there quite motionless and insensible—cholera! Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z The veil could not hide the agitation, could not hide the strained rigidity of her pose, or the convulsive force with which one hand gripped the other in her lap. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z In another minute he heard a rattle in his throat, and a18 convulsive struggle,—flew to the bed, and called to one of the servants to fetch Mrs. Arnold. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z A series of convulsive and unnatural bodily distortions establish their claim. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z The intruder's voice sent a convulsive shiver through Rachel. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Their hair stood out from their bodies like bristles, and they threw their heads up and down with a regular, convulsive, and apparently perfectly involuntary motion, while their eyes were fixed and staring. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z And yet,' she continued, falling back upon her pillow, and clutching the bed-clothes in her convulsive grasp, 'he spurned me from him—me, his wife—the mother of his child. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z Its outer form is often hard and defective, and its movements irregular and convulsive, but its inner spirit is ever generous and free. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Mr. Pang said the arrest of Mr. Gambira could help give outsiders some sense of the limits of tolerance amid the convulsive changes. Myanmar Arrests Monk Freed From Prison in January 2012-02-10T10:59:43Z Perhaps it was the result of a convulsive spasm as Mother Earth took a new wrinkle on her face. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z He burst into a fit of convulsive sobbing as he found himself among friends. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z Her hands opened and shut with a convulsive motion, as if they retained something in their grasp with which she was unwilling to part. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z All hope seemed dead, when the accession of a hero to the throne roused the harried and exhausted nation into one last convulsive effort for freedom. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Her hand, however, still grasped the snake where she had first seized upon it, and with such a convulsive force that the creature was rendered powerless. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z The latter could not repress a convulsive shiver as he felt the touch of his fingers. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z The tears started to his eyes, and there was a convulsive working of the saliva glands in his mouth. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z She was aware of a convulsive movement above her, and a suppressed cough. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z When persistent it is tonic spasm or cramp, catalepsy, tetanus; when the relaxations alternate with the contractions, it is clonic spasm, as in epilepsy, convulsive hysteria, chorea, &c.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z There was a moment's convulsive flapping of the mottled brown wings beneath the overshadowing gray ones. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z Bentham could do no more than vainly writhe in convulsive movements of his limbs. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z He said nothing, however, till Charmides, with a convulsive breath, opened his lips and began, very quietly: "My Lord Ribâta—" "Knave!" thundered my lord, finding his voice. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z But both transformations are creating intense political and social pressures, partly because change is always hard, and partly because the rewards of this sort of convulsive shift are so unequal. Some See Two New Gilded Ages, Raising Global Tensions 2012-01-22T23:35:03Z A little convulsive movement showed that it was not yet quite dead, but it no longer made any resistance. Bert Wilson at the Wheel 2012-01-14T03:00:19.827Z The amazed panther let out a screech of protest which ended in a convulsive sneeze. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z The bear gave a convulsive jump, and staggered back, clawing the air with his forepaws, and growling. The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys 2012-01-13T03:00:11.507Z He was seized with a convulsive trembling, caused by the rage that he felt at not being able to avenge there and then the outrageous conduct of General Sabaroff towards his wife. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z But, at the indignity of plebeian coercion, my rage was so nearly convulsive, that, in terror, she consented to let me remain, upon condition of quietness. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z I perceived those convulsive Motions that threaten'd me if I drank any more, therefore I sneak'd off and made the best of my way down from the Platform. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-06T03:00:25.023Z But when an epileptic discharge of nervous energy has exhausted the highest-level centres, we see the middle-level centres operating unchecked, and producing the convulsive movements of arms and legs in the "fit." Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z The eyes are wide open, with a deep and awful gaze; the mouth slightly distorted with what the doctors call “a convulsive smile,” which shows the teeth a little, and has an odd, wincing look. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Magnetic sleep is frequently preceded by slight feverishness, convulsive trembling and fainting. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z He did not stir; there was no convulsive death struggle. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z For some minutes he was shaken by that convulsive cough. Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best 2011-12-30T03:00:28.567Z There are sometimes convulsive accesses and there is sometimes the milder phenomenon of a deep restorative sleep. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z After swimming more rapidly for a few moments they gave a convulsive wriggle and broke into half-a-dozen pieces each, which wriggled about near the surface, squirting out their contents. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z One convulsive wriggle it gave with its whole body, and fell back, a black heap, on the snow. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z The Adagio lengthens in the minor the expression of the keenest pain, and becomes even a convulsive wail. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z And all this interpolated with convulsive laughter, showing that joy would come into him were it even by the path of hysteria and disease. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z Manolita, especially, laughed till she was quite limp; the more she tried to suppress her laughter the more convulsive she became. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Then with convulsive hands he took up the paper he had let fall and reread the article for the second, third, and fourth time. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z If the venerable Marcones had been at that moment in full possession of his faculties of observation, he might have detected a decided tendency to a convulsive movement in the hand of his chief. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z With a few convulsive wriggles she succeeded in getting her lips to the horse-whistle which hung round her neck. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z After a time Shaughnessy withdrew his gaze, and, with a convulsive movement, snapped the watch shut. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Through the convulsive smiles which now and then lighted up her face, and her brief enigmatical phrases, it was easy to see her uneasiness, and even a spice of hatred. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z I thought that he had an attack of hysteria; but, as I saw Madame Dauberny enter the salon at that moment, I understood what had caused his convulsive movement. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z Rising, he went to her, put a hand on her shoulder, and, at the convulsive movements he felt, made deeper the contrition for his careless act that her distress now caused him. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Two minutes after, the soles of the young lady's shoes removed themselves from Philip's shoulder-blades with a convulsive spring, and followed their owner in a harlequin dive through the open window. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Then, with a convulsive shudder, he sat erect, one hand instinctively pressed against his left side. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z The doctor, shrugging his shoulders, turned with a look that could not express itself in words, and Morris, burying his face in his hands, knelt by the bed, shaken with convulsive sobbing. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Then he hugged her and fell back in an attack of convulsive laughing. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z His arms about her, and his loving pleadings, his earnest promises to withdraw what he had said, joined with the sheer weariness of her convulsive distress at last to relieve her. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z I'm sure I wished she would, for she went on in the same strain, making convulsive little clutches at my fingers to emphasise her speech, until both she and I began to shiver. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z The sound of the rifle rings out on the silent air, the bear quits his victim, springs upwards with a convulsive start, then falls dead beside the man he would have slain. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z There was a convulsive wriggle of the body, the head dropped loosely forward, no cry was audible. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Bart had pumped another cartridge into place, but before he could pull the trigger the bear staggered a few paces toward him, and then fell in a convulsive heap. Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp 2011-12-11T03:00:12.153Z The goat gave a convulsive leap, and then shot straight out over the brink of the cliff. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z But before the expiring animal gave a last convulsive shudder, Miles had sprung to his feet and was looking dazedly towards his pursuers, now but a mile behind. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z All this really is not what we might expect of a compulsion-driven, irresistible, convulsive defense against a stimulus. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z If, when the symptoms are very unpromising, convulsive movements should occur, they may be taken as a favourable sign, as they indicate a diminution of the pressure on the brain. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z Nothing could save the unfortunate animal, the blood streamed from its open throat, and, after a convulsive kick or two, it stretched itself out and lay there dead. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z Instantly the captain stood up straight, holding Bertie in his arms, staggering beneath his weight, for the convulsive clutch of the lad's arms about his neck encumbered him. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z With her two hands she caught his arm in a convulsive grip. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z "Oh, come, my child, come!" murmured Marie, embracing her son in a last embrace with convulsive joy, "now it is for ever!" The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z As the brain, in severe cases, exhibits symptoms of oppression, so on dissection it will be found red and turgid, enabling us to account for the convulsive movements during the termination of the malady. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z He looked about him at a world gone mad with greed and hate, and he made convulsive efforts to reform his own spirit and escape the power of evil. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z A convulsive effort of mental arithmetic assured me that this was more than tenpence a pound, but it was not the moment for stiffness. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z He was not only shrinking as close to her as he could get, he was gripping her arm with convulsive fingers, which she could feel were trembling. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Imagine his agony at the sight of his mother,—pale, inanimate, and from time to time writhing under a convulsive chill. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z By the sick man’s convulsive movements I could see that he was in great pain, perhaps in his death throes; hence the great haste. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z A thrust of a dagger ends the convulsive kicking of the dying horse. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z The fair widow drew herself up with an almost convulsive movement. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z He began to choke; his unwieldy frame was shaken by convulsive efforts to breathe; stertorous gasps proceeded from the region of his chest. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Unable to bear this horrid silence, with a convulsive effort she exclaimed— “Is there no hope?” The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z I will send for Dr Norberry; you shall be moved to my house, and all will be well—all our past grief be forgotten,' returned Mrs Mowbray with almost convulsive eagerness. Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter 2011-11-04T02:00:17.120Z The others were as though paralysed; and the missionary, bewildered and unstrung, stood helpless, his arms clasped by Mary in a convulsive grip. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z With a convulsive effort he opened his eyes, and saw La Felina within a few feet of his bed. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Without heeding the involuntary, frightful, and convulsive heavings--the death-throes of his wretched victim--the Marquis exclaimed, in a calm, firm voice,-- 'How beautifully that picture is finished! The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z It is not a palpitation, but a stringimento which is quite convulsive, and, did I not struggle greatly, would cause violent hysterics. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Suddenly a convulsive fit came on, and in a moment she was gone. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:26.667Z She had laid convulsive hold on the red-padded arms of the great rocking-chair, and the purple veins started up on the long hands. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Two arms stole about his neck, and Brent's heart pounded wildly as he felt them tighten in a convulsive embrace. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z She saw the last tear dry on his cheek, the convulsive movements of his chubby hands, and the twitching of the thin skin of his head. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z She was evidently at the last stage of some long and terrific illness, and her hold on life seemed as powerless and as convulsive as that of her hands upon the quilt. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Then Brooke, who made a convulsive flounder, lost the grip he had, and the arm Jimmy clung to was torn away from him. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Then her strength failed her--she collapsed, her eyes closed, white foam appeared on her lips; unconscious, with convulsive shudders, she fell back on the cushions. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:49.420Z A convulsive tremor shook him from head to foot, and he gasped for breath. A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest 2011-10-12T02:00:51.367Z I curb'd the notes, convulsive, to a sigh, And, when they falter'd most, I made them leap Fierce from my bow, as from a summer sleep A young she-devil. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z There was nothing noble in his features, and his face, which was commonplace, was only remarkable for the quick, convulsive changes it underwent. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z Her arm appeared paralyzed and her legs sank under her; a froth came from her mouth, and with a convulsive laugh and piercing cries she fell senseless. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z In severe sciatica it has several times happened to me to see convulsive action of the flexors, bending the leg spasmodically upon the thigh. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z Then he raised himself by a convulsive effort, and fell back again, insensible as before. A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest 2011-10-12T02:00:51.367Z And he remembered now how Doris had at that moment thrown herself into his arms, and strained him to her breast in a fit of convulsive weeping. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z She started violently; she felt his convulsive tremors against her heart. The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z The rigor of death was already settling upon those convulsive heaps. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Among the convulsive affections must be reckoned convulsive movements and tonic spasms of various portions of the alimentary canal. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z By a kind of convulsive pressure of his hand, he perceived she noticed his silent agitations, and it acted with the rapidity of electricity on feelings which he found could no longer be restrained. Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z It is the convulsive manifestation of his personality, an instinctive melancholia, an uncontrollable desire for self-assertion, all of which obscures his reason. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z This flower is by no means unsightly, but only spectral: its aspect fills our souls with a dread pleasure, like those convulsive, sweet emotions that arise from grief. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z He shuddered with a violence that seemed to snap his breath; even his eyebrows gave a convulsive twitch, as if he felt something crawling over his face. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z From her own and her mother's account, it seemed she had long suffered from convulsive attacks that did not appear to have been truly epileptic. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z The young lie on their sides making violent convulsive respiratory movements. Aspects of Reproduction and Development in the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) 2011-09-19T02:00:13.453Z Monseigneur," said the barber, whose face had become livid, while a convulsive trembling seized his limbs; "monseigneur, what do you say? The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z But he was offended at their contempt of the sacraments, and at the convulsive character of their utterances. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z He gave a convulsive start and sprang through their hands like an uncoiled whiplash. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Almost immediately after she was seized with convulsive retchings and had fallen into a swoon. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Then the rattling and gurgling ceased by degrees; finally air was wheezing in the severed throat, and the feet of the dying man dug the floor in convulsive quivers. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z As he stooped to free his sword the serpent gave a convulsive struggle and died. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z Uneducated laymen, and more particularly women and even children, after convulsive fits broke out into deep mutterings of repentance and prophesyings of approaching judgment. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z She had shut her eyes, and was twisting her face in strange, convulsive contortions, her hands hanging stiffly clenched at her sides. A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time 2011-09-09T02:01:08.700Z I did not, however, use the ceremony of a formal recognition; but, rushing on his person, I clung to it with all the convulsive desperation of a person drowning. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z A convulsive shudder passed over Mr. Hearty's frame. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z They are of various kinds—fainting fits, delirious fits, and convulsive fits. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z “She uttered a piercing shriek, & clasped her child with convulsive strength to her bosom imploring the tyrant not to tear him from her widowed arms.” Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z The bad effects of cramming on the physical constitution of children are pointed out in “the convulsive grasping of their foreheads” by the two boys engaged in solving mathematical problems. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z But fate is in all his operations, and his last convulsive effort makes the sand and the water commingle at the landing-place. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z The stench of the vile, infecting mist oppressed the lungs and provoked convulsive coughing fits; it was a burden to draw the breath of life. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z An emetic—if the cat is not insensible—will, in all probability, do good, as, both in the delirious and convulsive fits, the stomach and bowels are generally out of order. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z Mahaash swayed to one side, and, I suppose, gave a convulsive grip with the armoured heel. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z Suddenly I burst into a convulsive laugh, so strange in sound that it should surely have betrayed me. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z The country took on a bleached, tortured, convulsive aspect. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z He sighed a quick convulsive sigh, and then in mercy averted his eyes. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z Convulsive Fits.—The cat emits a cry as of pain and terror, and falls down on her side, foaming at the mouth, and with convulsive motions of all the limbs, accompanied with cries and moans. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z You threw a coin—Brazil’s nickel muck, a handful worth nothing—and it went below oscillating, as though sentiently dodging the contorted and convulsive figure of the boy diving after it. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z There was a groan—a smothered cry—a wild and convulsive movement among the sleeping Indians; and all again was silent. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z They were convulsive somersaults; stiff hands clutched at earth and grass. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z She could still feel the clinging, the convulsive, grasp of Lingard's hand. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z Here she stopped, for Greenwood broke out into convulsive crying. Salome 2011-08-20T02:00:12.970Z Nothing happened, except a little blood and some convulsive movements. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z "I knows him!" and, after a few convulsive efforts, the red legs took the shape of a pair of compasses, and the intelligent pupil triumphantly shouted, "It's a We, dranpa, it's a We!" Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z The greatest peril for dogs is at the moment when the bear is shot, for they are apt to attack it as it falls, and get crushed in its last convulsive throes. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z His arms and limbs were pinioned, but his body shook with a trembling convulsive movement. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z A ball is in de cuppa,” and then dropped his book, gave his tongue a convulsive jerk and spluttered, “Srow de cuppa to me.” The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z I flinched as each new hand poked my bare flesh, and embarrassed, tried desperately to control my convulsive muscles and fits of laughter. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z Crowds poured from the square, burst on to the bridge, stuck in the swamp; the drowning seized one another with convulsive embraces, and crying to heaven for mercy, sank in the cold moving swamp. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z I fired again and noticed a quick convulsive movement on the part of the foe, but only at the moment of firing. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z I wished thereupon to start up from my couch, but a shuddering coldness had fettered every limb, and every attempted movement produced only a convulsive inward struggle. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z Kingsnorth, however, pulled himself together after a convulsive movement or two of his chest. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z Forests full of dead trees are prone to catastrophic fires, a convulsive agent of change. The Real Story of Globalization 2011-08-05T23:59:24Z The multitude struggled around them with that terrible convulsive motion of furious masses. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z A few seconds' inaction was followed by convulsive shivering; the pain of stopping was more excruciating than that of climbing. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Alas, how often before was my laughter only the convulsive vibration of that internal torment which preyed upon my heart! The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z She allowed herself no luxury of grief, and after a few convulsive efforts got control of herself. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z A hare carries his head much higher than might be thought; and he is very strong, so that the plug which holds the wire must be driven in firmly to withstand his first convulsive struggle. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Then Berger felt this convulsive body suddenly grow stiff and heavy--he was holding an unconscious burden in his arms. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z With a convulsive jerk Lucy suddenly sat upright. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z You see his jaw work, you see the goat give a great convulsive struggle, there is a sudden rush of blood from the torn arteries pouring over the priest in a great red stream. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z With one convulsive effort the rail was broken asunder, and the whole party pitched in a heap over the low embankment. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z Enjoyment—no fitful pleasure crossing a dull life, nor any vacant convulsive mirth—but a rich deep-toned chuckling enjoyment circulates continually through all his being. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z He thrust in the tearing torments with a ferocious delight, not a little enhanced by the physical convulsive movements of his victim at every new insertion. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z With one convulsive effort, the woman shot out a fat hand, and rang the little silver bell upon the table. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z And between her convulsive fingers she heard the old servant babbling on.... Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z "Why—Mrs. Longbow!" cracked Mrs. Bird's voice at the same time, jumping from her chair with a convulsive jerk, and grasping her hand, and imprinting a kiss upon her. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z There was a convulsive effort for speech, a passionate return of her sister's embrace, and she fainted. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z I brought my rifle to my shoulder with a convulsive jerk, pointed it at him and fired without thinking of the sights, and of course scored an ignominious miss. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z Instantly we writhed and strained, and finally, after a convulsive effort, both were landed in the bottom of the boat. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z "Oh yes—quick! quick!" he heard her reply, in a convulsive, frightened voice. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z He, at length, made a motion with his head, which was understood to be a nod, but which more resembled an involuntary convulsive contraction of the muscles. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z The convulsive shuddering left her frame, which relaxed its terror-strained rigidity. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z There are other psychical births that are forced, convulsive, agonizing in their suddenness. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z There is a writhing, convulsive, retreating misery; part of which I saw I had inflicted upon this gentle being. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z He read through the letter without speaking another word, though there were occasional convulsive twitches of his face which showed how his heart was stirred to indignation by the perusal. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z He paused, and a convulsive motion of the muscles around his mouth betrayed feelings for which he instantly seemed to blush, as he strove to control them. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Helena drew the blind, frightened face down upon her generous breast, whilst Gertrude softly stroked the rigid hand which had seized one of hers with such a convulsive grasp as caused her acute pain. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z She made a convulsive clutch at her throat, gasping as if to speak. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z For a few moments this horrible jarring vibration continued, then the whole fabric gave a convulsive kind of heave, and the tremor ceased. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z In a moment two more tulwars swung through the air, and the sufferings of the murdered man—literally cut to pieces—were over, though his limbs still beat the ground in convulsive struggles. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z A hoarse rattle, smothered by the precautionary gag, burst from their tortured throats, and their convulsive struggles were frightful to behold. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z “Blind!” she murmured, “blind!” and sinking beside him, she caught his hands in a convulsive grasp, and looked into his drawn and bandaged face. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z I seized the wooden grating of the arbor with my hands, and feared lest I might crush it into bits with that convulsive pressure. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z A convulsive whistle began to escape from the breast of the Lieutenant, his eyes rolled in his head, and his sight began to grow dim. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Her convulsive jerk of the reins stopped the horse, and Baird came to her, looking directly into her eyes. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z Every now and again a convulsive shudder would heave through the bodies of the miserable animals, whose glazing eyes rolled piteously as they writhed their necks and bared their jaws in their terrible agony. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z “What do you mean?” asked Frank hoarsely, while his hand tightened in a convulsive grasp on Laura’s fingers. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z Her lifeless countenance displayed the marks of convulsive anger; and she left an ample fortune behind her to those who did not regret her loss. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z Then, with a convulsive effort, she flung her stern high out of the water and slid rapidly to her ocean grave. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z When the respiratory apparatus concentrates upon it the febrile congestion, the breathing becomes painful, accelerated, embarrassed, sometimes convulsive, and a deep, oppressive cough is heard from time to time. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z The blood spurted freely, and he ground his teeth in the convulsive anguish caused by the venomous brute’s sting, which seemed to go through his whole frame. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z She took his arm with almost a convulsive grasp, and for a moment she bent her head; then with a soft and womanly look she asked him to talk and not to heed her silence. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z P——, aged thirty-five, has suffered from epileptic attacks of a severe convulsive character for eighteen years, having had one about once a month. A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy 2011-06-21T02:00:28.890Z Occasionally even slight convulsive seizures may follow such recurrent dreads. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z With a convulsive movement, the lowermost man had just succeeded in swinging himself a foot or two up the mast when the gaping jaws of a shark passed immediately beneath him. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z The advancing mass halts a moment like a wave suddenly stopped by a breakwater, fairly impeded by the fallen bodies of its slain and the frantic convulsive throes of the stricken. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z After a few convulsive struggles the limbs loosened; then the great helpless creature rolled over on its side and lay still. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z During this period not only were the frequency and severity of the convulsive attacks beneficially modified, but there was no evidence to show that the physical or mental condition had been in any way impaired. A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy 2011-06-21T02:00:28.890Z Practically all of the convulsive or quasi-convulsive movements associated with respiration are likely to become the subject of tics. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z They cleared the intervening space that lay between them and the fat boy's pony in a series of convulsive leaps that the bronchos took under the urgent pressure of the rowels of their riders' spurs. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z Some had managed to crawl a few yards, and lay with their fingers dug deep into the hard earth, which they had clutched in their convulsive agony. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Now look upon me, I draw off my mask, I have convulsive movements on my face, like people who live after drinking sweet poison. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Clinical observation has determined that the larger the number of convulsive seizures the greater is the tendency to the production of others, and the more readily are they caused. A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy 2011-06-21T02:00:28.890Z This is only a trifle, but it will often save children severe convulsive efforts. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z It was only the convulsive grip of legs to the broncho's side that saved him from a bad spill. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z Her nervous finger-tips suffice to grasp him tightly, and to produce convulsive tremblings along his sides. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z The old bridegroom diffused over his face that convulsive smile which, with some men, resembles the convulsive quiver of the cork when it announces the bite of the fish. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Then the rescued ex-convict made a sudden convulsive movement, gathered himself for a mighty effort, broke from the supporting grasp of the detective, and fled away down the dark street. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z Then on this embrace came another, a convulsive frantic clinging of the lips, a kiss which conquered them both, flinging a mist across their eyes, stopping their ears, stilling their reason. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Dr. Gay answered nothing; but the vampire Death, fanning the sinking mortal into immortality, answered, by her convulsive face and twitching hands. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z The victim of this singular experiment now became rigid, and made a convulsive sound as if in a severe spasm. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z But suddenly a lad in the ranks behind Frank and Ned gave a convulsive cry and fell to the ground. Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam 2011-06-07T02:00:13.313Z A convulsive shudder ran through his big body. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z A cry from Betty, and a convulsive closing of arms about the protector. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z The boat was shaken as a leaf in the wind, then with a convulsive shiver lay still in the water, like a creature stricken to death. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z Our earth and all who are born upon it receive or earn many of their greatest blessings through the sweats of convulsive throes or severe toil. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z In the convulsive administration of a youthful prince, 162 they who oppose the court are not necessarily opposing the sovereign. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The policeman unbent the convulsive fingers, and examined this with careful eyes. Nearly Bedtime Five Short Stories for the Little Ones 2011-06-02T02:00:26.960Z "Yes, yes," said Ingeborg, blushing a vivid red and going a convulsive step nearer. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z With a convulsive movement she drew his head closer to her shoulder. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Again came that crazy desire of hers to laugh, and although she kept silent, it was a convulsive silence—one of heaving bosom and quivering shoulders. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z He brought them up, even for the first two or three times, with a quick convulsive movement, and I could almost have made oath that I heard the beat before the wings fell. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z Hers shrunk away in convulsive loathing from touching those which had been in contact with a skull. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z It seemed as if the girl must almost strangle in her convulsive oppression of breath. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z But when she laid her hand on his arm, a slight convulsive motion showed her that he still lived. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z When she had closed her door she stood still and re-read the telegram upon which her hand had retained a convulsive clutch. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z Men had swung there at the end of a rope—yes, he had once seen a convulsive, struggling figure black against the sky. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z The convulsive rise and fall of his breast as he panted for breath told how desperately and savagely he had fought. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z Woman, in Strindberg's works, is a bogy, constructed out of the vilest ingredients that enter into the composition of human nature, with a kind of convulsive life infused by a remnant of great artistic power. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Lancelot did not answer save by a little convulsive gasp. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z Indian had broken loose, and it was then that the look was on his face, a look of the wildest fury of convulsive rage. On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration 2011-05-15T02:00:09.877Z But the convulsive, prostrate, moaning heart on the gravestone does not call after these, "Dreams of spring-time, when will ye return?" Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z "Be it so!" said he, and bit the convulsive lip with which he said it. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z From between the convulsive hands the guns went off at random. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z A few convulsive jerks, and the murderer of an innocent fellow being and the despoiler of virtue had gone to his reward. Overshadowed A Novel 2011-05-07T02:00:24.483Z She flung a shawl about her shoulders, seized Mark by the arm in a convulsive grip, and together they hurried through the woods. On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration 2011-05-15T02:00:09.877Z With a convulsive shudder the mother shrunk from his gaze and flew to the bed, on the foot of which slept the two infants. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z Naturally enough, any muscle or any group of muscles may be affected, and the manifestations may present all the varieties of convulsive movements to which muscles are liable. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The moment he touched the stones, Bob sank to the ground, drew up his legs with a convulsive effort, and then shot his feet upward with a tremendous thrust. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z She took Nettie in her arms, but instead of the required kiss, there came a burst of passion that bowed her head in convulsive grief against her child's breast. Little Nettie or, Home Sunshine 2011-04-29T02:00:07.153Z Dennis submitted his stout frame to a convulsive laugh, which for an instant gave him some resemblance to a dog shaking himself on emerging from the water, "Drownded in half a fathom," he exclaimed, hilariously. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z But he was a brave man and the descendant of a fearless race; and except for one convulsive throe that shook him from head to foot, nothing told his horror of his sudden fate. Sir Noel's Heir A Novel 2011-04-24T02:00:07.013Z True epilepsy presents an enormous number of sub-groups, exhibiting every variety of deviation from the ideal convulsive form, and the existence of these forms tends to demonstrate the views just expressed. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Stewart felt himself shaken by a sudden convulsive trembling. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z The young girl’s bosom rose and fell in convulsive undulations, while big tear-drops ran coursing down her cheeks, like a spring shower from the blue canopy of heaven. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z It was a mere convulsive effort, caused by the horror of his situation. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Lie still, my heart, lest these convulsive throbbings Mar my last wish. Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts 2011-04-14T02:00:57.593Z He clung to the stone wall with convulsive fingers. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z But it was no longer Fernande that Stewart heard—it was another voice, subtle, delicate, out of the unknown—— His bosom lifted with a deep, convulsive breath. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z One convulsive shudder ran through his frame, as the high clear voice of Aurelia pronounced, in trembling agony, the name of “Luigino!” Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z Then he took a convulsive hold of the stranger's coat, shrieked, and fell back on to the pillow. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z His breathing was short and irregular, and in the convulsive movement of his fingers might be seen the evidence of acute suffering. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Judge her not harshly, if in the midst of her convulsive grief, there were moments when her mind dwelt upon the other and older sorrow. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Then the boat, with convulsive lurches and dippings and bobbings, plunges through the rough waters, and finally you reach your original point of embarkation. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z When Elizabeth Ryan saw them her burning eyes dilated, and her long nervous fingers closed with another convulsive grasp upon the folds of her skirt. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z The man, released from Wolfenden’s grasp by his convulsive start, went staggering back into the roadway. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z A few convulsive struggles followed, and then the generous and noble spirit of the Cavalier deserted its prison house. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z The attempt to turn the eye outwards is accompanied by short convulsive movements, and followed by an immediate rebound to the convergent position. Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger 2011-03-22T02:00:22.370Z One had suffered a paralytic attack, and every word and motion was accompanied with a convulsive gasp and jerk. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z With a bound Victoria flung herself on her brother's neck, wrapped him in a convulsive embrace, and, suffocated with emotion, broke into tears, unable to utter a word. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Something gave way, and in another moment the car crashed against the masonry wall, the engine made a few convulsive revolutions, and then lay inert and helpless. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z His huge frame shuddered with convulsive emotion as he paused and seemed to view from beneath his mask his astounded and breathless auditors. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z Then Mrs. Deacon, extricating her foot from Sam’s convulsive grip, rose up. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z The first hardly hoped to pluck the head, and after his hasty, convulsive grasp his frightened horse carried him on almost over the bluff. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z She staggers back, remains speechless for a moment, and then bursts into not convulsive, not hysterical, no, only indescribably mocking laughter. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z At the same moment Peggy feels a convulsive pressure on her arm, and hears Prue's passionately excited voice: 'There he is! at the far end of the room; he is looking for us! Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Thus was terminated this sanguinary conflict, the last convulsive throe of the Independent faction in the British dominions of North America. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z In an undertone Stella prayed 'Our Father;' but in the midst of it she burst into a convulsive fit of sobbing: she stroked and caressed the cold cheeks, the thin gray hair, of the dead. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z All the echoes clamoured mockingly with the convulsive sound, and thus multiplied they gave a ludicrous suggestion of the whooping cough. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z With haggard eyes Stephen watched them, then, with a convulsive movement, he took up his hat. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z How fully, dear mother, I can enter into your sorrow, when I remember the convulsive embrace with which you held me to your heart on the event of my leaving home. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z |
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