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Convulsive

adjective

Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm. Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic. "His body made a spasmodic jerk" , "Spastic movements"

Resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent. "Convulsive laughter"

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"Convulsive" Quotes from Famous Books

... convulsive leap to one side, staggered a little, and fell behind, but was soon in the lead ...

— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton

... covered with a large plaister. My eye was black, and swelled up, and my forehead too was plaistered above the eye-brow. My body he had been told was covered with bruises, tears bathed my cheeks, and my face was agitated with something like convulsive emotions. This strange figure was suddenly changed into his grandson! It was an apparition he knew not how to endure. To be claimed by such a wretched creature, to have been himself the author of his wretchedness, ...

— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

... the kingdom as mountebanks do their patients, with violent remedies which put strength into it; but it was only a convulsive strength, which exhausted its vital organs. Cardinal Mazarin, like a very unskilful physician, did not observe that the vital organs were decayed, nor had he the skill to support them by the chemical preparations ...

— The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Complete • Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

... brushes. The little old man turned up his cuffs with convulsive haste, slipped his thumb through the palette charged with prismatic colors, and snatched, rather than took, the handful of brushes which Porbus held out to him. As he did so his beard, cut to a point, seemed to quiver with the eagerness ...

— The Hidden Masterpiece • Honore de Balzac

... play he was trapped on the roof of a country home. Suddenly Fairbanks, disregarding the plan of retreat indicated by the author, gave a wild leap into a near-by maple, managed to catch a bough, and proceeded to the ground in a series of convulsive falls that gave the ...

— Laugh and Live • Douglas Fairbanks

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