Convulsed

Examples

• It sent her into a strange, convulsed anger, to be thwarted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Paler than marble, with white lips and convulsed features, Idris became aware of my situation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He who sat near Raymond was telling a story, which convulsed the rest with laughter. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At this facetious speech, the young boy, it is almost needless to say, was fairly convulsed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• As we dashed up to the door, my friend's face convulsed with grief, a gentleman in black emerged from it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In answer to our eager questions, one word alone fell, as it were involuntarily, from his convulsed lips: The Plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This is an age of the world when nations are trembling and convulsed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The Duke had dropped the last attempt at self-command, and was pacing the room with a convulsed face and with his clenched hands raving in the air. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then suddenly her fore feet struck out, as she convulsed herself utterly away from the horror. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If, by an effort, she attended for one moment, it seemed as though she were convulsed into double restlessness the next. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Some reflection seemed to sting him, and the spasm of pain that for a moment convulsed his countenance, checked my indignation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She had _known_ it before; but hitherto she had never realized it, till she saw the slender form of Rosa almost convulsed with distress. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And if anything should happen-- Here poor Mrs. Vincy's spirit quite broke down, and her Niobe throat and good-humored face were sadly convulsed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yes; there scarce stirred a breezeand that heavy tree was convulsed, whilst the feathery shrubs stood still. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He was convulsed in the clasp of this death of his father's, as in the coils of the great serpent of Laocoon. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were dreadfully convulsed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Snuffbox, said Jo, in a sepulchral tone, which convulsed the audience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Before calamity she is a tigress; she rends her woes, shivers them in convulsed abhorrence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She sat convulsed with fury and violation, speechless, like a stricken pythoness of the Greek oracle. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Typed by Alphonse