Vocabulary Word
Word: convulsion
Definition: violent uncontrollable shaking movement (caused by illness); V. convulse; ADJ. convulsive
Definition: violent uncontrollable shaking movement (caused by illness); V. convulse; ADJ. convulsive
Sentences Containing 'convulsion'
Not only no great convulsion, but no sensible disorder, arose from so great a change in the situation of more than 100,000 men, all accustomed to the use of arms, and many of them to rapine and plunder.
So for coitus, it is but the attrition of an ordinary base entrail, and the excretion of a little vile snivel, with a certain kind of convulsion: according to Hippocrates his opinion.
It was such an early day that it came soon, even to me, who was in a fever of expectation, and half afraid that an earthquake or a fiery mountain, or some other great convulsion of nature, might interpose to stop the expedition.
There was something else which she would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion seized her and choked her words.
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