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When Anne left, I'd wake up in the morning, and my eyes would just immediately fill up with tears, and I would start convulsively crying.
My scream flew up, bounced off my palate, and was swallowed convulsively, never quite managing to escape.
I can still see how it looked in the rear view mirror with its tail convulsively thrashing around.
War irrupts convulsively into the history of civilizations as a loss of control, partially managed by competing political interests.
His fingers convulsively clenched into fists for an instant before he forced his tense muscles to relax.
My hands convulsively clenched, my teeth clamped together, my nostrils flared, my lips curled, and a red mist descended in front of my eyes.
Big business, as highly charged as the matter in hand, is lobbying convulsively.
I hide my face on his knee, and all my tears so long kept back come convulsively.
I felt so cold that I was shaking convulsively under three layers of blankets.
Separated from the outside world, Lyosha convulsively turned over in his mind the people he knew ten or even twenty years ago.
They thrash around convulsively during this phase and often afterwards until they have their throats cut.
So we went to an osteopath since he kept his arms convulsively next to his body, with his hands under his chin.
Its left hind leg remained aloft, jerking convulsively, its thick chops were hanging down, extended by trickling slobber, and on each side of the horrible mouth, two fangs were sticking up to murder innocent people.
Then the Prophetess Cassandra, possessed by the Divine Spirit, convulsively agitated, with hair in disorder, opened her lips to foretell their tremendous doom.
It interested me, even at that moment, to see that whilst the face of white set passion worked convulsively over the bowed head, the hands tenderly and lovingly stroked the ruffled hair.
Despite the convulsively jittery address to the role, he is never in the smallest degree engaging in the way director Jon Favreau appears to think.
Examples from Classical Literature
The sack rose and fell as if something under it was squirming about convulsively.
They did eventually, convulsively and exhaustingly, till she dropped into a death-like sleep far into the next morning.
And the Waler's rider, as if startled by the cry, suddenly and convulsively slashed the animal's withers.
The axe descended, sheering his haunches across, and he stretched out, working his great jaws convulsively.
She could not finish the sentence for the squatter had pressed her to him convulsively.
Still there are some left who recalcitrate pertinaciously, clinging convulsively with hands and feet to their old ignorance.
Soames convulsively clenched his jaws, for his teeth were beginning to chatter.
He thrust the paper into his bosom, and then abruptly, convulsively, held out his hand.
The dropping of a charred ember from andiron to hearth made the panic-stricken man jump convulsively.
Force of police arriving, he recognized in them the conspirators, and laid about him hoarsely, fiercely, staringly, convulsively, foamingly.
She walked to the window, convulsively grasping her pocket-handkerchief.
Nan suddenly threw her arms around his neck and held him convulsively.
He pressed her to him convulsively, then gently released her.
The cowpuncher's fingers were opening and closing convulsively.
The Twins convulsively gripped each other's hands under the table.
Louise pulled Maxwell convulsively to a halt, for the man was Godolphin.
She managed to catch one of his hands and gripped it convulsively, drawing it to her face, and bathing it in her tears.
When I began calling myself a scoundrel and a blackguard and my tears flowed her whole face worked convulsively.
Villefort ran to her and seized her hand, which convulsively clasped a crystal bottle with a golden stopper.
Again Raoul's hand tightened convulsively on the pistol grip.
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Said Chinaman convulsively wrestles with one of his many Gods or Devils, perhaps, and snarls horribly.
It was very black, and Weena clung to me convulsively, but there was still, as my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, sufficient light for me to avoid the stems.
Hepzibah, her hands convulsively clasped, stood gazing at the entrance.
And the poor creature threw herself into a chair, and sobbed convulsively.
With a cry he turned and ran off through the woods weeping convulsively.
There did Meriones transfix him, and he writhed convulsively about the spear as some bull whom mountain herdsmen have bound with ropes of withes and are taking away perforce.
Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted.
