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Meanings of convulsive effort in English

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Usage of convulsive effort in English
1
She saw his throat working with the convulsive effort to produce sound.
Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
2
Leaning heavily against it, she made convulsive effort to keep back sound.
People Like That: A Novel
3
Wilmot shuddered and made a convulsive effort to break the handcuffs.
The Penalty
4
And then the body was shaken by one last convulsive effort.
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
5
One gasp, a convulsive effort, and there was silence,-shehad lost her voice.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 / A Magazine ...
6
With a final convulsive effort he tore the root free.
The talisman
7
She made a futile, convulsive effort to pray, and lost consciousness in the act.
The Swindler and Other Stories
8
It yields to the convulsive effort, leaving his hands released.
The Lone Ranche
9
At this the woman controlled herself with a convulsive effort.
One Man in His Time
10
She made a convulsive effort and looked up at him.
Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
11
By some nervous convulsive effort she lifted her arms up toward him beseeching, appealing.
And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy
12
Twitch!-andwith a quick convulsive effort she sheers aside, and her enemy sprawls on.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions; Or, Joints In Ou...
13
She stood waiting in a silence which Rosemary could break only by a convulsive effort.
Rainbow Valley
14
She made a convulsive effort to repress her sobs.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
15
He started to his feet with a convulsive effort.
Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession / A Novel
16
But, climbing a real ice-fall, you'd unleash the last convulsive effort because you had to.
A Matter of Proportion
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