Whirling about, Burt stared over the body of the lion and then went into a spasm of mirth.
When Burt shook his head and repeated the sacred word a spasm of anger flashed across the pigmy's face and he motioned them to rise.
Burt's first spasm of wild, uncontrolled fear gave way to courage born of desperation.
He perceived the line tighten immediately, when a terrible gasping for air seized him and shook him; he tore at his diving suit with his hands, a spasm of agony making him reckless whether he let in the water or not.
Gazing malevolently at the broad back of the retreating mate, the one-eyed seaman whipped out his sheath knife, a wild spasm of fury contracting his wrinkled face.
For a moment he gave way completely to a wild spasm of mirth, laughing as Mart had never seen him laugh before, while the two boys began to feel sheepish and uncomfortable.
The spasm of reform is over, leaving the permanent vis inertiae of ministers and departments once more in undisturbed possession.
Nothing more was the matter than the doctor could have told Mrs. Kingsward’s family long ago--a spasm of the heart.
Bee’s heart seemed to contract with a speechless spasm of anguish and rage.
A great spasm shook the body and soul of Amyas Leigh; he sat quite silent for a minute, and then said solemnly: "And is this still possible?
Her hands dropped on her knees: a strong spasmran through her throat and bosom, and she fell on her knees before him, and looked up imploringly in his face.
He looked so like her mother, that he gave her a spasm of anguish which she tried to forget, as they were whirled down the road with its fringe of straight-limbed trees.
Six years ago, when you and I were sub-freshmen, and unable to take an active part, there was a brief spasm of reform.
At the same time with the lesser spasm there would be a less extensive sinking of intracranial pressure with less consecutive collateral hyperaemia of the lower centres and therefore no convulsion.
And then, at that moment, with a spasm of fear freezing his hot blood, he saw once more the face of his enemy.
At the moment he was threatened with a spasm of pain, and man-like preferred to be alone.
Ringfield impatiently, concealing the spasm of tortured pride that passed over him as he heard Poussette's tactics defined.
What spasmof reform had animated this fallen, worthless creature to create an impression which could not, in the nature of things, lead to systematic rehabilitation?
Tilly went off into a spasm of hysterical giggles and denials, and the shoulders of the two old men beside the stove began to heave with suppressed laughter.
Tilly leaned against the counter and went off into a spasm of giggles, while the car stormed past the store in a cloud of reproving dust.
The spasm continues for only a few minutes, when it relaxes and another occurs in a short time.
In spasm of the neck of the bladder the male animal may stand with the tail slightly raised and making rhythmical contractions of the muscle beneath the anus (accelerator urinæ) (see Pl.
So long as spasmodic colic is unrelieved, retention of water from spasm of the neck of the bladder usually persists.
Large doses of laudanum (2 ounces) or of solid extract of belladonna (2 drams) will not only soothe the pain but relax the spasm and favor the onward passage of the calculus.
Among the causes of spasm of the neck of the bladder may be named the lodgment of small stones or gravel, the feeding on irritant diuretics (see "Bloody urine," p.
The spasm may be relaxed by injecting one-half ounce of solid extract of belladonna in water into the rectum or by a solution of tobacco.
A slight but definite spasm of jealousy afflicted Sam.
In a spasm of compunction and foreboding, he resolved to pay a visit to his wife to strengthen himself against temptation.
In a spasm of acuter disgust, and in a confidence of higher destinies, he threw up his berth.
The poor children dependent upon him came up to memory, and he wondered at his spasm of selfish despair.
Matthew had a spasm of despair--a momentary sense of being an outsider.
I had a spasm of pain, to which I am subject at times, but it has passed off.
As for myself, I have no kith or kin--" His voice suddenly dwindled to a whisper, and a spasm shook him from head to foot.
Had he been seized by another spasm of pain, I wondered, or was there a deeper cause for his agitation?
At the sight, a sudden spasm of remorse seized Hector; tears were a rare occurrence with Lucy.
His father's face, dusky red, twitching as if he were going to cry, and words breaking out that seemed rent from him by some spasm in his soul.
Soames; and a spasmthat for his life he could not control constricted his face.
If we analyze the sneeze, we find that it simply consists of a spasm of the pharynx, larynx and diaphragm through the reflex action of this membrane.
The vocal muscles are contracted to an unnatural degree, and every vocal tone is accompanied by an audible shock or spasm of the glottis.
A spasm of inward laughter shook Toby like an aspen leaf as this incomparable lady gave him this wonderful example of the widening effects of foreign travel.
But, you see, he did not write any of those novels," said Lily, with a sudden little spasm of laughter.
But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he has not.
In politics, the sons of democrats will be whigs; whilst red republicanism, in the father, is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.
So in human action, against thespasm of energy, we offset the continuity of drill.
As he went up to his own room, a momentary spasm of doubt came upon the new convert--whether, perhaps, he was making a sacrifice of his life for a mistake.
Either a passing spasm of compunction passed over him as he said the word, or it was the moon, which had just flung aside the last fold of cloud and burst out upon them as they turned back facing her.
But Officer Donahue permitted the left corner of his mouth to twitch slightly, and a momentary muscular spasm disturbed the calm of Officer Cassidy's granite features, as a passing breeze ruffles the surface of some bottomless lake.
A sort of spasmhad passed across his companion's features.
There was a Moffam in the Middle Ages who had a sudden spasm of energy and set out to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, dressed as a wandering friar.
She halted in the deserted hall and gave way to a spasm of dry sobbing--an overflow of all the emotions that had been accumulating within her.
After several minutes of coughing and gagging, gasping and groaning and spitting, he was relieved by the spasm and lay down again.
