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Meanings of sudden convulsion in English

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Usage of sudden convulsion in English
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He fell again upon his face, clutching the table in a sudden convulsion.
The Courage of Captain Plum
2
The doctor staggered back against the wall, his face working in a sudden convulsion.
The Light That Lures
3
The poor creature was shaken from head to foot with a sudden convulsion of fear.
Cord and Creese
4
He was almost suffocated by a sudden convulsion of the heart, half exultation, half terror.
Mary Wollaston
5
Bob felt a sudden convulsion in his uncle's figure.
Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83...
6
For the first time that night a sudden convulsion of madness and rage passed over his face.
Tales of Unrest
7
The young man turned away to hide the sudden convulsion that seemed coming to his own face.
The Witness
8
A sudden convulsion of rage shook me.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
9
I regret to inform your Majesty that a sudden convulsion last night deprived the Lady A-Kuei of life.
The ninth vibration and other stories
10
Doctor Gordon gathered up the reins, but Sam Tucker seemed to experience a sudden convulsion all over his lank body.
'Doc.' Gordon
11
I tightened my arms around him ferociously, in a sudden convulsion of fear that he, too, would be taken from me.
Dead until dark
12
A sudden convulsion passed through Enoch's body and the sheep heart started to beat, spraying out a fine mist of bloody pickling solution.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
13
For the life of him he could not fix his identity in the place where the sudden convulsion of events had cast them all.
Joyce of the North Woods
14
The lake surged and heaved with sudden convulsions, and its greenish waters turned dark and menacing.
Jarka Ruus
15
Yesterday Trask had gone into sudden convulsions.
The stand
16
And what vast changes of society and of nations had been wrought by sudden convulsions or by slow degrees since that era!
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair / Or, True Stories from...
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United Kingdom
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