Meanings of great convulsion in English

The hour is approaching when the most great convulsion will have appeared.

There was the stillness which goes before some great convulsion of nature.

And now, meditate upon this most great convulsion, this grievous test.

Signs of a great convulsion revealed themselves in his face.

So it is with the great convulsion of Nature which was known as Byronism.

At the same time a great convulsion took place in the constitution of the State.

There came another great convulsion of the stock market.

We have here the record of a great convulsion.

First of all, in the great convulsion of European thought, the ascendancy of Aristotle was shaken.

Where were you when the great convulsion came?

Tiananmen was the first great convulsion in what was to become a terminal year for Stalinist regimes in Europe.

The great convulsion of '48 flung wide the gates of Italy to the wanderer, and I returned to Turin.

He could remember a great convulsion of some sort, but just what it was he had no clear idea!

Soon the still surface was flecked with spots of foam; islets of froth floated by, tokens of some great convulsion.

So then he had a great convulsion, and struggled in it; and then turned violently in his bed and sat up.

Civilization, already advancing rapidly towards the great convulsion of the Revolution, was gradually stamping out the systematic extortions of these robbers.