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Convulsive

adjective

Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm. Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic. "His body made a spasmodic jerk" , "Spastic movements"

Resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent. "Convulsive laughter"

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"Convulsive" Quotes from Famous Books

... man's arm gave Fitzpiers a convulsive shake. "What are you doing?" continued the latter. "Keep still, please, or put me down. I was saying that I lost her by a mere little two months! There is no chance for me now in this world, and it makes ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... in her bosom—her quickened convulsive breathing almost beat on my face, as she held me back ...

— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins

... generation as well as the present, and still be left in a state even of pauperism. These victims perish in silence! No one has attempted to suggest even a palliative for this great evil; and when I asked the greatest genius of our age to propose some relief for this general suffering, a sad and convulsive nod, a shrug that sympathised with the misery of so many brothers, and an avowal that even he could not invent one, was all that genius had to alleviate the forlorn state of ...

— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli

... to terror experiences certain physical sensations: wildly beating heart, tensed and twitching muscles, and a frantic impulse to convulsive action. A man in whom those physical sensations are induced by other means will, ordinarily, find his ...

— This World Is Taboo • Murray Leinster

... man, one of the negligible millions, being "squeezed," in other words the operation in an ordinary case of the divine law of survival. Freke was to survive; Simonds was not. In what respects Simonds was inferior to Freke, the Divine Mind alone could say. When that convulsive face shot past Isabelle in Lane's office, it was merely the tragic moment when the conscious atom was realizing fully that he was not to be the one to survive! The moment when Suspense is converted ...

— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)

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