In a paroxysmof fury, Lucien rushed to Frascati's, staked the proceeds of the sale, and lost every farthing.
He was shouting the reckless refrain when d'Arthez and Bianchon arrived, to find him in a paroxysm of despair and exhaustion, utterly unable to make a fair copy of his verses.
That evening, when the theatre was full, he experienced for the first time the paroxysm of nervous terror caused by a debut; terror aggravated in his case by all the strength of his love.
In Rhode Island the agitators obtained control of the government, and the result was a paroxysm of tyranny.
In Massachusetts the agitators failed to secure control of the government, and the result was a paroxysm of rebellion.
So she journeyed into the desert, while her father lay dead in the court of his palace, and her lover sought her wildly, hurrying to and fro in a paroxysm of grief and fear.
The lion's cub so far resembled his fierce old father, that his mood would change on occasion at a moment's notice from joyous good-humour and hilarity to a paroxysm of wrath, all the more dangerous that it was so sudden and unexpected.
At the same time an overpowering, strangling smell clutched his windpipe and seemed almost to close up his throat in a paroxysm of repulsion.
Lieutenant Feraud passed from one paroxysm of astonishment into another.
It had been merely a paroxysm of delirious conceit.
But at that moment the first paroxysm seized him so that his jaws closed and he could not say another word.
Sometimes the events of a somnambulic paroxysm are remembered during a subsequent attack, though they are forgotten during the interval, as in a case, reported by Macario, of a young girl who had been violated during somnambulic sleep.
The paroxysm begins with a deep inspiration, causing a peculiar laryngeal sound, followed sometimes by the appearance of a little foam on the lips.
But its anti-spasmodic effect upon the paroxysm of nervous asthma renders it indirectly hypnotic in that affection.
So far as the normal life of the subject is concerned, he is active, sensible, intelligent, but unconscious; and when the paroxysm is terminated memory contains no account of its events.
When the predisposing temperament exists, a great variety of excitations may serve to produce the phenomena, so that unless careful observation is employed, the truly somnambulic character of the paroxysm may easily be overlooked.
His condition closely resembles that of the victim of epileptic mania who delivers himself during a paroxysm to all degrees of furious and homicidal violence, without retaining the slightest recollection of the fact after its conclusion.
We must suppose that the molecules which were in a state of excitement during the first paroxysm are again aroused in a similar manner after a period of waking quiescence.
It may occur as a paroxysm without relation to other forms of the affection, or, according to my own observation, more frequently associated with other forms of somnambulism.
The asthmatic paroxysm may frequently be arrested by inhalations of the vapor of chloroform or ether; but, unfortunately, the lungs soon become tolerant of these agents, and they then cease to afford relief.
Such attacks are usually of shorter duration, and are more frequently associated with hysteria; bearing to the hysterical paroxysm the same relation which they share with the epileptic fit.
On awaking she had no idea of anything that had occurred, but during a subsequent paroxysm she told her mother all that had happened.
Thus, the dream with which I was on one occasion occupied became so amusing that I was awakened by a paroxysm of laughter that continued for some time after the termination of the dream.
The paroxysm may be terminated by almost any sudden and energetic appeal to the senses, like an electric shock, a sudden illumination of the eye with vivid light, or a sharp puff of air upon the face.
If the first paroxysm of his passion had passed, Lessingham was still sufficiently stern.
Such a paroxysm of fear came over me, that I was incapable of stirring from the spot on which I stood, and it was all I could do to prevent myself from collapsing in heap on the floor.
A momentary paroxysm seemed to shake the very foundations of his being.
His dream continues; but he is again but the muzzled miscreant who blasphemes and curses in the paroxysm of his impotent rage.
Harville was struggling in the paroxysm of this horrible attack.
Sloppy they left behind, relieving his overcharged breast with a paroxysm of mangling.
She afterwards went so far as to predict that it would end in a little man whose mind would be below the average, but that was in what I may denominate a paroxysmof maternal disappointment.
Mrs. Tate said nothing, and allowed the paroxysm to spend itself.
The rifle fell from his hands, and he smote his breast and forehead in a paroxysm of the wildest fury.
A cold paroxysm froze her whole body, and her sweet limbs writhed as if with unbearable agony.
Rosalind and Nurse Emilia invent a paroxysm of diabolical severity, partly for the establishment of a pinnacle for themselves to look down on Sally from, partly for her consolation.
I paused, almost out of breath from the rapidity with which I had spoken; and without giving him time to renew the conversation, I hastily quitted the room, leaving him in a paroxysm of rage and mortification.
He beat his knee, picked up his hat and bent the brim in an apparent paroxysm of humorous appreciation.
The young man went into a protracted paroxysm of coughing.
Tish put down her knitting and stared at Aggie fixedly until the paroxysm was over.
Aggie, however, absolutely refused to return, and said that by holding her nostrils closed and her mouth open she could, if she felt the paroxysm coming on, sneeze almost noiselessly.
In a paroxysm of despair I threw myself again upon the mattress, where, for about the period of a day and night, I lay in a kind of stupor, relieved only by momentary intervals of reason and recollection.
Stifling in a paroxysm of terror, I at last found myself partially awake.
Scarcely a day passes, I assure Mr. Traddles, on which some paroxysmdoes not take place.
Beauchamp, who had watched with sincere pity the young man's paroxysm of grief, approached him.
Villefort, in a paroxysm of grief, which was the more terrible from the novelty of the sensation in the iron heart of that man.
I am seized with a terrible, perhaps mortal illness; I can feel that the paroxysm is fast approaching.
Villefort rose, half ashamed of being surprised in such a paroxysm of grief.
And, in her first paroxysm of terror, she had raised herself from the sofa, in the next, stronger very likely than the other, she fell down again on the cushions.
And then, falling upon the chair nearest the door, she burst into a paroxysm of sobs.
There was both regret and repentance in him, as he thought of the deaf and dumb girl, and of the paroxysm of terror he had caused her.
The instant he blew her candle out, she dropped the china candlestick, in a paroxysm of terror.
Now the paroxysm of spending approached, and their voluptuous furor increased--it was simply maddening.
Ethel I found also (as soon as the paroxysm of spending had allayed my feelings a little, and I was allowed to look around) was sucking her father's prick, whilst he was frigging her.
