The narrow chasm had evidently, at some remote period, been made by a convulsion of Nature, but Art had since been employed to widen, enlarge, and conceal it.
We may imagine that streams of white lava had flowed from many parts of the mountains into the lower country, and that when solidified they had been rent by some enormous convulsion into myriads of fragments.
I believe this convulsion has been more effectual in lessening the size of the island of Quiriquina, than the ordinary wear-and-tear of the sea and weather during the course of a whole century.
Or, with more probability, that there existed formerly a part of the same range more elevated than the point on which this monument of a great convulsion of nature now lies.
All three of them, the dead woman and the two demented men, retained upon their faces an expression of the utmost horror--a convulsion of terror which was dreadful to look upon.
Her dark, clear-cut face was handsome, even in death, but there still lingered upon it something of that convulsion of horror which had been her last human emotion.
The convulsion lasted five minutes, and was succeeded by coma.
The guns glanced off the mountainous body--and, with a lastconvulsion of the mighty legs, were swept underneath!
Corrupt and often cruel in his lust, like some noxious insect, Fyodor Pavlovitch was sometimes, in moments of drunkenness, overcome by superstitious terror and a moral convulsion which took an almost physical form.
That which will produce but a headache in an adult will often produce a convulsion in the child.
To adulterate it is a crime, an attempt to tax it would bring about a convulsion of the empire.
Comrade Meissner could not have foreseen how this particular news would affect Jimmie; Meissner knew nothing about the strange adventure which had befallen his friend, the amatory convulsion which had shaken his soul.
Jimmie could not scream, but his face turned purple and the cords stood out on his forehead and neck; he began to strangle, and this was worst of all; every convulsion of his body stabbed him with ten thousand knives.
A convulsion of despair crossed the love-beaming face of Adrian, while with set teeth he murmured, "Yet they shall be saved!
Death was the slower in coming for that, but no convulsion was to be seen, for the cords were strong and the body was utterly incapable of motion.
Its width was in no place more than ten yards across, and it had been formed by some convulsion of nature that had caused the surface to sink, and it looked as if it had been gouged out of the earth.
The Count laughed inwardly and silently, and two of the white mice in his waistcoat, alarmed by the internal convulsion going on beneath them, darted out in a violent hurry, and scrambled into their cage again.
Such is the title given by Mr. Gladstone to the most wanton political convulsion which has, in our time, afflicted our country.
They recalled the disasters and depression of their party in the past and the politicalconvulsion from which it had at length emerged.
Well, once more; it is self-government, so far as that is compatible with the interests of the Empire, to which Ireland belongs and must still belong unless a mighty convulsion of nature puts it elsewhere.
When the quantity which can enter is less than the quantity endeavouring to force a way, there is a fatal crush among the crowd, a fierceconvulsion on the water.
And when the terrible convulsion was over, and the {p.
The answer to this question is plain: The Drift marks probably the most awful convulsion and catastrophe that has ever fallen upon the globe.
He could not understand this moral convulsion that within the last few minutes, had dominated his nature.
With the fuller realization of the thought the sudden convulsion of his heart choked him, and while his blood buzzed the louder for the possibility, fate, chance, or what you will threw the cards in the game his way.
An infantile convulsion corresponds to a chill in an adult, and is the most common brain affection among children.
After the convulsion is over, give the child a few doses of potassic bromide, and an injection of castor oil if the abdomen is swollen.
The convulsion generally lasts two or three minutes; sometimes, however, as long as ten or fifteen minutes, but rarely.
Again the earth shook beneath their feet; they were forced to cling to each other; the convulsion ceased as suddenly as it came; they tarried no longer; Glaucus bore Ione lightly in his arms, and they fled from the unhallowed spot.
The ground shook beneath him with a convulsion that cast all around upon its surface.
