With the events of that day were linked, as cause and effect, many great political convulsions of Europe.
I know no other man who, loaded with honours, and almost escaping disgrace, has passed through so many eventful periods, and taken part in so many convulsions and revolutions.
In this fantastic shadowy struggle, we can distinguish nothing but the cries and the convulsions of the human animal, possessed by devils.
Franklin and the physical convulsionsof the earth, 421.
The physical convulsions to which the earth had been subject in the past were, however, in his opinion beneficent.
The convulsions of Rameses' time (the early years of the twelfth century) may therefore mark a stage in the movements which brought about its destruction.
Galvani had given the name of Animal Electricity to the power which caused spontaneous convulsions in the limbs of frogs when the divided nerves were connected by a metallic wire.
She grew wakefully glad: it was her nature, not her mind, that had twisted in the convulsions of last night's horror of shame.
All Europe is in convulsions in a few months: to-morrow it may be.
In forty minutes the inspirations were less deep, the convulsions had been unremitted, the strength failing.
In one minute the ears were in rapid convulsive motion, and, presently after, tremors and violent convulsions extended over the body and limbs.
Mr. Brodie applied one drop of the empyreumatic oil of tobacco to the tongue of a cat; it occasioned immediate convulsions and an accelerated breathing.
In three minutes the eyes rolled up, and convulsions continued.
One, two, three-" At the end of ninety seconds the convulsions ceased.
Cut clean, not a cry could be formed in the windpipe, and in his armchair Caffie shook with convulsions from head to foot.
The little man looks remarkably out of his element, and the uninitiated part of the throng are in positive convulsions of laughter.
The lady would certainly go into convulsions if the subject were mentioned.
Mr. Tupple, who laughs himself into convulsions at every fresh burst of facetiousness.
If a medium could simulate a materialized spirit, it is hardly likely that she would (or could) simulate convulsions with a medical man standing by her bedside.
At last our poor friend fell into convulsions which recurred with little intermission until his death, which took place the same evening.
He saw it writhe in greatconvulsions and as if in a nightmare, witnessed the awful spectacle of two of its enraged brethren wriggle toward him at lightning speed over the edge of the pit.
Billy asked in a trembling voice of Ben, as the earth fairly heaved under the convulsions that now seemed to be rending its very crust.
It was not worth their while to embark on the hazards and convulsions of a mighty war for either swamp or emissary.
Whence comes it that everywhere an immense multitude assembles to witness the agonies and the last convulsions of a criminal on the gibbet?
Sometimes it is the restlessness of a man in a fever; sometimes the frenzy of a madman; sometimes a dream, which ravishes the soul into regions of bliss; sometimes the anguish and the convulsions of agony.
It is not impossible that during one of the convulsions which disturb our unhappy country, men may arise amongst us blind enough to attempt to introduce the Protestant religion into Spain.
In the convulsions that followed the barbarian invasions, intellectual energy of a secular kind almost absolutely ceased.
It can hardly, I think, be questioned that in the great religious convulsions of the sixteenth century the feminine type followed Catholicism, while Protestantism inclined more to the masculine type.
Little did he dream that at that very moment she was rolling over on the floor of her room, in convulsions of laughter at the mistake Black Bart had made, and the consequent rage its discovery had thrown that worthy into.
Ray had turned to the window in convulsions of laughter.
Fits and convulsions set down to demons, 59 Flamen Dialis, taboos observed by the, 13 sq.
Fits and convulsions are generally set down by the Chinese to the agency of certain mischievous spirits who love to draw men's souls out of their bodies.
The Prophet Joseph Smith is credited with having said that our planet was made up of the fragments of a planet which previously existed; some mighty convulsions disrupted that creation and made it desolate.
Indeed, the occurrence of convulsions from this cause (diseased milk) has been mentioned by several of the best authors.
Was this then the limit of his journey and were all these convulsions of nature to end merely in the creation of a peninsula cut off in this meaningless fashion?
Such violent eddies followed and the sea, until then quite calm, was affected by such abnormal convulsions that the fishermen had to row their hardest to avoid being dragged into the whirlpool.
These, accordingly, are reserved for a final reckoning, in which the power of Jehovah will be displayed with the terrible physical convulsions which mark the great day of the Lord.
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