Meanings of terrible convulsions in English

He fell back in terrible convulsions, and in a moment was dead.

After the terrible convulsions of the last years even this rest was a relief.

Four or five minutes later Auguste was seized with terrible convulsions, followed by unconsciousness.

Blackened in terrible convulsions, Wolfstein expired; over him had the power of hell no influence.

The poor man had been in convulsions, terrible convulsions!

A nation of thirty millions of people, had been for ten years agitated by the most terrible convulsions.

Ever since giving birth to her first child she had been subject to nervous fits which brought on terrible convulsions.

There are, I acknowledge, even in the happiest life, some terrible convulsions, heavy set-offs against the opposite page of the account.

What terrible convulsions of nature there must have been here ere these great boulders were displaced and rolled about like mere pebbles!

On a platform stood black, motionless men in awful contrast with a dangling object that doubled up and curled upon itself in terrible convulsions.

Afflicted with a disease of the heart, she is subject to terrible convulsions, which increase the tenderness of her protector for the doomed child.

But a sudden sound cut these investigations short, for Hortebise had fallen to the ground, and was struggling in a series of terrible convulsions.

It was often very effective, producing shouts and groans and genuflections among the audience at large, and terrible convulsions among the more nervous and excitable.

Terrible convulsions, in paroxysms, devilish grin, the body is curved backward, jaw set.

"The oldest of the young ladies, Miss Martha, was seized with terrible convulsions."

"So stupendous a change," said I, "did not, of course, take place without bloodshed and terrible convulsions?"