Sentence Examples

1. All around him were lying the Palikares, writhing in convulsive agonies, while two or three who were only slightly wounded were trying to escape by springing from the windows.
2. A convulsive movement again brought him to the surface.
3. Danil violently swatted him aside while entering a convulsive spasm.
4. He twitched all over with the same convulsive shudder as someone being electrocuted.
5. La Fontaine buried his face in his handkerchief, and the only signs of life he gave were the convulsive motions of his shoulders, raised by his sobs.
6. Albert seized them with a convulsive hand, tore them in pieces, and trembling lest the least vestige should escape and one day appear to confront him, he approached the wax-light, always kept burning for cigars, and burned every fragment.
7. The rigors which had attacked Barrois gradually increased, the features of the face became quite altered, and the convulsive movement of the muscles appeared to indicate the approach of a most serious nervous disorder.
8. Danton made a convulsive movement that he quelled at its inception.
9. Another convulsive kick in the ribs, and old Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge he thundered over the resounding planks he gained the opposite side and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone.
10. Mercédès looked pleased and gratified, while Fernand grasped the handle of his knife with a convulsive clutch.