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noun

Convulsion n.

(Med.) An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.

Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion. "Those two massy pillars, With horrible convulsion, to and fro He tugged, he shook, till down they came." "Times of violence and convulsion."

Synonyms: Agitation; commotion; tumult; disturbance.

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"Convulsion" Quotes from Famous Books

... lay thus, and then a sudden convulsion of the giant carcass at the man's side, a tremor, and a stiffening brought Tarzan to his knees beside the crocodile. To his utter amazement he found that the beast was dead. The slim knife had found a vulnerable spot in the ...

— The Beasts of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... was volcanic (indeed the whole island had undoubtedly been thrown up from the floor of the sea by some subterranean convulsion in ages past), the coral insects had been at work adding to the strength of the lagoon's barriers. The recent quake that had lifted the reef had ground much of this coral-work to dust. Drew found himself wading ankle deep in it ...

— Doubloons--and the Girl • John Maxwell Forbes

... sealed by illusions at last had been opened to the truth." It required a European War on the vastest scale that the world had ever known to shake him out of his fallacies and illusions, and many of us felt that it would have been better if a less terrible convulsion had sufficed to awaken him, but still, now he was awakened, he was prompt in owning he had been in the wrong and therefore no more was to be said. The subsequent stages of this Representation of the People Bill were a ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various

... stimulus had a most favorable effect on the slaves, and gave promise of complete success. But the judicious agent died in consequence of the climate, and the French Revolution threw every thing into a state of convulsion at home and abroad. The new republic of France bestowed unconditional emancipation upon the slaves in her colonies; and had she persevered in her promises with good faith and discretion, the horrors of St. ...

— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child

... faculties of the greatest and wisest of our race; but I thank Heaven I have never been subjected to its singular fascination. For, oh, Phantis! there is that within me that tells me that when my time does come, the convulsion will be tremendous! When I love, it will be with the accumulated fervor of sixty-six years! But I have an ideal—a semi-transparent Being, filled with an inorganic pink jelly—and I have never yet seen the woman who approaches within measurable ...

— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

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