Paroxysms
[pærək,sɪzəmz]
Examples
- And so, when the paroxysms came on, each more severe than the last, they were fresh agonies, and greater disappointments to him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And in the midst of their paroxysms, they glanced with deference at the four English strangers, the elect. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At the close of one of these paroxysms, when I had with great difficulty held him down in his bed, he sank into what appeared to be a slumber. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- These paroxysms pass from him like a cloud from before the sun, though his dejection never leaves him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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