Its final spring must have been a purely convulsive act, for Rob's bullets had pierced its skull in three places.
Through the dark, low-lying mass that marked the feeding maverick herd, a sort of convulsive shudder suddenly ran.
Stretched out at full length, on the other side of the rocks, his pale flanks knotted up by convulsive spasms, El Mellen lay in anguish.
Another idea came to me, and a convulsive laugh bent me double.
McCarthy, proud as the Old Guard, sat smoking on; only one leg was drawn up under the other in a tense, convulsive way.
The next moment Hunter, white as a sheet, bumped at his side and passed, followed by Reynolds; down theconvulsive lane the crowd opened to him.
He departed hastily, to welcome new arrivals with convulsive grip and rolling urbanity, passing like a doctor on his hospital rounds.
Ten minutes of practise starts under his leash, and they ended, enveloped in steam, lungs shaken with quick, convulsive breaths.
After some of the convulsive struggles of our irritable nature, he submitted himself, and repented in dust and ashes.
If it had not been for Gothard's convulsive snifflings those present could have heard the flies fly.
She was seized with a convulsive tremor--the hour had come!
The poor animals could only get through the quagmire streets by fits and starts; it was first a stumble, then a convulsive jump, then another stumble and another jump, and so on.
Padre Salvi was in the grip of convulsive shivering; he worked his lips and with bulging eyes followed the gaze of the head as though fascinated.
He tried to appear calm and control the convulsive trembling in his limbs, endeavoring to divert his thoughts to other things.
He leaped quickly to one side; the blood spurted forth in a torrent, as when the plug is removed from a fountain, while the feet stirred feebly and convulsive movements ran along the skin, succeeding one another like waves of the sea.
Another received a bullet in his chest, and dragged himself over to the wall, where he lay gasping in protracted agony, while convulsive movements shook his frame at intervals.
There was a brief convulsive movement of the legs; the youthful, tranquil expression of the face remained, stamped there unalterably by the hand of death.
During the silent watches of the night she was visited by another convulsive attack of sobbing, and wept, wept as if her tears would never cease to flow, clasping her hands before her as if between them to strangle her bitter sorrow.
With this he stiffened, and gave a convulsive shudder.
Convulsive sobs shook her as she lay across the mound of uncaring earth.
He felt a convulsive shiver run through the delicate form he held.
Calm and clear, on the troubled wave of her tempest-tossed soul, the low words fell; but only her deep, convulsive sobs were his answer.
He thought of it now with a convulsive shudder; and the flickering light seemed like a finger of blood-red flame pointing up to heaven, and invoking its wrath upon him.
His chest heaved as he buried his face in his hands, and something like a convulsive sob shook his frame.
The consequence was, that before that repast was well down, she was seized with such convulsive cramps as only cholera patients ever know.
There is a struggle, a convulsive throe, another awful rattle in the throat, and then he sees the limbs relax, and the palpitating throat grow still.
Olive Henderson's hand had closed on the pasteboard with so convulsive a pressure, that the card was crushed into a shapeless mass.
Nina, while the convulsive working of his features showed that his habitual self–command was scarcely equal to support the present unexpected trial.
With one convulsive groan the dying Osage fell heavily to the earth; and ere the bystanders had recovered from their astonishment, his blood–stained scalp hung at the belt of the victorious Delaware.
As Reginald stood at a little distance gazing earnestly upon its changeful loveliness, he was startled by a suppressed ejaculation from some one at his side, at the same time that his arm was seized and pressed with almost convulsive force.
The convulsive symptoms present in Ballet's case were undoubtedly a characteristic result of a severe dose of acetate of morphia.
He explained his convulsiveseizure at the time of his arrest by his having taken a dose of strychnine, which he had carried in his pocket since the crime.
Leaning heavily against it, she made convulsive effort to keep back sound.
Quickly she dropped them and glanced around the room, as though looking for escape, and again her hands made convulsive pressure, again she started to get up.
I had a wild, almost convulsive sort of pleasure, such as I did not believe myself capable of enjoying.
My very name seems to me but an empty one and not my real name; and yet, no matter how low it may be uttered, amid the loudest noise, I turn suddenly with a convulsive and peevish eagerness which I have never been able to explain.
As I gazed upon the eddies of the whirlpool, I thought within myself how soon human life would become extinct there; a plunge, a convulsive flounder, and all would be over.
Istar gave a quick, convulsive shudder, but Ramua hardly noticed her.
The tears started to his eyes, and there was a convulsive working of the saliva glands in his mouth.
Tears ran down her furrowed cheeks, and the oak step, that had not these four generations yielded to the weight of Mays, creaked beneath this onslaught of convulsive avoirdupois.
There was a convulsive movement in all her limbs and her eyes were fired with a gloomy light through the long locks of white hair which hung in disorder round her face.
From time to time a convulsivesob heaved the sick man's heart, after which followed a succession of quick, short respirations.
While being borne insensible to the rear, he still clenched the hilt of his sword with a convulsive grasp, the blade thereof being broken off close at the hilt with grape-shot, and in a state of delirium and suffering he lived for a few days.
All at once they came in a flood, and her whole being gave up toconvulsive sobs.
She rushed with impetuous alacrity towards the palace, pressing with convulsive firmness the valuable pledge on which all her hopes depended.
Her abstracted senses awoke as if from a horrid dream, and with fearful and convulsive clasp she hung to Don Lope's neck.
She looks again upon the sleeper, and a deadly calm overspreads those features but lately fraught with convulsive passion.
Paul mixed his tears with theirs; and nature having thus found relief, a long stupor succeeded theconvulsive pangs they had suffered, and afforded them a lethargic repose, which was in truth, like that of death.
She was instantly seized with a convulsive stopping of the breath and agonizing pains, and her voice was only heard in sighs and groans.
He cast an inquisitive glance around his dwelling, and a convulsive shiver passed over his manly frame, as his eye again fell on the vacant chair, which no one had ventured to occupy.
The convulsive shuddering left her frame, which relaxed its terror-strained rigidity.
The sweet, sad face sank down upon his hands, which her own were grasping with an almost convulsive clutch, and a shiver like a great choking sob ran through her.
