Inglethorp was lying on the bed, her whole form agitated by violent
convulsions, in one of which she must have overturned the table beside her.
Groans, and
convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.
We need only confess that we do not know the purpose of the European
convulsions and that we know only the facts- that is, the murders, first in France, then in Italy, in Africa, in Prussia, in Austria, in Spain, and in Russia- and that the movements from the west to the east and from the east to the west form the essence and purpose of these events, and not only shall we have no need to see exceptional ability and genius in Napoleon and Alexander, but we shall be unable to consider them to be anything but like other men, and we shall not be obliged to have recourse to chance for an explanation of those small events which made these people what they were, but it will be clear that all those small events were inevitable.
The globe of the lamp appeared of a reddish hue, and the flame, brightening before it expired, threw out the last flickerings which in an inanimate object have been so often compared with the
convulsions of a human creature in its final agonies.
Instantly she went into fearful
convulsions, and it was with the greatest difficulty that six strong men could hold her.
They tormented me till I was ashamed: they drove me to
convulsions and--sickened me, at last, how they sickened me!
And what vast changes of society and of nations had been wrought by sudden
convulsions or by slow degrees since that era!
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and
convulsions within.
It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong
convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.
This slight wound I took little notice of, till my arm grew inflamed all over; in a short time the poison infected my blood, and I felt the most terrible
convulsions, which were interpreted as certain signs that my death was near and inevitable.
This unhappy people seem to be now suffering from popular
convulsions, from dissensions among the states, and from the actual invasion of foreign arms, the crisis of their distiny.
"In the very heart of an extinct volcano, the interior of which has been invaded by the sea, after some great
convulsion of the earth.