Voorbeelden van convulsed

• When she smiles or sings her mouth is drawn up to her ear, with a look of a person convulsed with pain.

• It is said that it is difficult to learn to bicycle on a plain constantly convulsed with earthquakes.

• It is impossible for trade and industry to continue if the medium in which they are conducting their negotiations is constantly convulsed by financial earthquakes.

• He may be convulsed with laughter because he has either been looking at the wrong accounts or making the wrong calculation on the capital assets.

• In tests, caged foxes convulsed, retched and showed obvious signs of distress before death occurred—but that is all right to those who want a ban.

• The county council's proposals have convulsed the local communities.

• A whole half of the world is convulsed by revolutionary change.

• I refer to the whole frenetic desire for constitutional and institutional reform which has convulsed the politics of this country for the past two years.

• We do not know what will be the state of the world, whether it will be convulsed or calm.

• Europe was convulsed for generations by the conflict of religion.

• Although his windpipe was torn and obstructed by his destroyed larynx, the condemned man continued with rasping breaths and convulsed on the rope.

• But this becoming, what labors will attend the change, how convulsed with birth-pangs!

• Five of the subjects convulsed, and the others recovered when returned to normal pressure following the appearance of acute symptoms.

• Occasionally, the victim had convulsed for an hour or two after the rope trick before dying.

• Simultaneously, the earth we embraced so dependently convulsed in violent paroxysm.