A morbid, excitable, spasmodic man; at best, intense rather than strong.
What should be done for a baby who has spasmodic croup?
The ordinary croup of infants is spasmodic croup, and is very rarely dangerous, although the symptoms seem very alarming.
In their frank and engaging depths of blue, as open as the sky, Victor McCalloway read the answer to his question, and something like a sigh of relief shook him; something spasmodic that clutched at his throat and his well-seasoned reserve.
He was licking his lips and his throat worked with somespasmodic reflex.
Every day from five all the way up to eleven columns of "live" advertisements were left out or crowded into spasmodic and irregular "supplements.
It was rather the spasmodic effort by a sharp, hard blow to loosen the tightening and death-dealing grip upon our throat, and give us time for one long, deep breath before the final tug for life.
He supposes that the primary mischief is in the nervous system, and that the spasmodic and permanent shortening of the muscles of the affected limb is altogether consecutive.
Swelling, with spasmodicof these symptoms may be wanting; there is little deformity, and no shortening, when one of two or more action of the muscles, soon takes place.
Either rigidity, or spasmodic action, or both, of the sterno-mastoid muscles, displaces the head and twists the neck.
Spasmodic stricture has been spoken of by some writers, but is most probably an imaginary disease.
The limb is always shortened to a certain extent, and the natural contour destroyed; the arm is useless, and bent towards the trunk, and the muscles are in a state of spasmodic contraction.
In spasmodic or painful affections arising from the latter cause, slight extension of the incision is recommended, so as to divide entirely the injured branch.
The cause of the spasmodic action in the muscle is sometimes apparent, sometimes very difficult to be detected.
A symptom of the most distressing nature is pain and spasmodic twitching of the diaphragm, impeding respiration, and imparting a shock to the whole system.
But strictures are often of temporary duration, and appear to depend on spasmodic contraction of the circular muscular fibres of the tube.
Spasmodic action of the muscles of the face, without pain, sometimes follows wounds and other injuries of the nerves which supply them; and sometimes no cause can be assigned for the occurrence.
Is there any country in the world equal to America in the irregularity and spasmodic nature of the demands which society makes upon its women?
Outside of actual uterine disease, the pain at this moment is most often dependent on uterine cramp, itself excited by a spasmodic contraction of blood-vessels that interfere with its circulation.
If the world, as a spasmodic poet tells us, were destroyed, a few atoms left of the wreck, with their internal forces of attraction and repulsion, would enable a philosopher to tell how it was made.
By the time his mother returned I had become quite clever in checking the spasmodic clutches which spilt the cold water into his neck.
Then I was puzzled by herspasmodic attentions when my father was in the room, and her rough repulses when I "bothered" her at less appropriate moments.
Then the spasmodic payment was, as tips are now, essential to the upper man's dignity, and very especially to the dignity of his visitor.
A few plundered farmhouses and a small list of killed and wounded horsemen on either side were the sole result of these spasmodic and half-hearted operations.
With the utmost effort of her will she could not repress these evidences of her disappointment, and with a spasmodicmotion she clutched the arm of the driver as if it were that of Destiny and she could hold it back.
Her wide nostrils opened and closed with spasmodic motions.
Again it took practically every ounce of strength they had in their muscular bodies, but they could move steadily now, instead of in straining, spasmodic jerks.
And the bull, when the first shock of surprise and distaste had passed, backed ominously, head lowered, tail switching in spasmodic jerks from side to side.
He felt as if a hand of ice had touched him, and his own closed upon hers with a spasmodic grip, as he looked sharply round and saw the photograph, the counterfeit presentment gazing sternly in his eyes.
Some atrocities there were, even then; but, compared with those of the present war, only the spasmodic outbursts of boyhood in a rage.
In all the town there was not a canteen or a foyer, not a hut nor a camp, not a place of amusement (except a spasmodic cinema), not a room set apart for their service.
But proportionably it roused and stung by misery his metaphysical instincts into more spasmodic life.
And his movements, every now and then, had in them something of the spasmodic movements of a chained wild beast.
A spasmodic bombardment had been maintained during the preceding weeks, and seaplanes had been busy, bombing and range-finding.
That is to say, it must not be merely spasmodic coping with the misery of to-day, but must go on dealing with the misery of to-morrow and the day after, so long as there is misery left in the world with which to grapple.
Is not this plan infinitely superior to the spasmodic Egyptian expedient of occasional public works, which cost the State enormous sums and only increase the local difficulty as soon as they are completed?
The intensity of the man, his electric activity, his spasmodic nervous power, quite dazzle and stun us.
From the first line to the last, there is never a sentence or a passage which strikes a discordant note; we are never worried by a spasmodic phrase, nor bored by fine writing that fails to "come off.
The Tennysonian modulation of phrase had not yet been popularised in prose, and spasmodic soliloquies and melodramatic eloquence did not offend men so cruelly as they offend us now.
Fast on the points of a spear the fish gives an occasional and violent spasmodic jerk, when the prettily tinted liquid is ejected from all the little cones.
The history of the subject, in fact, may be summed up briefly as a series of vain and spasmodic attempts to solve the problem of snakebite-poisoning and wring from nature the coveted antidote.
As the latter was reduced, they became at first deeper, but ere long shallower again, and were occasionally interrupted by spasmodic inspirations.
I have certainly seen several cases of asthma in which spasmodic pain of the heart has occurred on various occasions after or during a very severe asthmatic paroxysm.
And I have seen what I do not doubt to have been a spasmodic condition of the rectum induced by peri-uterine neuralgia.
A case of singularly prolonged and obstinate spasmodic hiccough which came under my notice was distinguished by the presence of a fixed tender spot over the third dorsal vertebra.
Even in the earlier stages of the disease there is usually some degree of the same thing, as, for instance, spasmodic winking.
In several cases of inveterate sciatica I have seen violent spasmodic flexures of the leg upon the thigh.
