Meanings of spasmodic action in English

Shocked into spasmodic action, the American jumped from barrel to ratlines.

It is a richness, a fullness of being, not a wild, spasmodic action.

A violent spasmodic action contracted the muscles of his throat.

In exact contrast with the irregular and spasmodic action of the Excelsior, is the methodical, persevering action of Old Faithful.

A quantity of stimulus somewhat greater than natural excites the retina into spasmodic action, which ceases in a few seconds.

He spoke to her, but a quick spasmodic action of her throat and a quivering of her hands alone responded.

Johnson's sentences seem to be contorted, as his gigantic limbs used to twitch, by a kind of mechanical spasmodic action.

The retina, after having been excited into action by a stimulus somewhat greater them the last mentioned falls into opposite spasmodic action.

At the end of the month the burrowing had been succeeded by tunneling, and both sides prepared for a winter of spasmodic action.

I breathed, however, at every moment, with more and more difficulty, and each inhalation was attended with a troublesome spasmodic action of the chest.