Spasms
['spæzm]
Examples
- I am in deadly peril always, for these spasms are sudden and irregular, and of course I cannot tell when to be getting out of the way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The spasms were very bad: no wonder they frightened your maid; but she'll rally this time. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Sometimes spasms of hatred came over him, against Birkin and Gudrun and that whole set. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Poor little thing, she's liable to spasms, and it's good for her to have her mind employed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There are two kinds of spasms, clonic and tonic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Uttering these words, the good lady pointed, distractedly, to the cupboard, and underwent a convulsion from internal spasms. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She has had spasms, as I anticipated, though I did not tell Miss Hale of my apprehensions. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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