I still her dying conflict view, And the sad sight does all my grief renew; Rack'd by convulsive pains, she meekly lies, And gazes on me with imploring eyes; With eyes which beg relief, but all in vain, I see but cannot, cannot ease her pain.

It loves, it storms; with it, everything is convulsive.

spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating &c v.; volcanic, meteoric; stormy &c (wind) 349.

shaking &c v.; agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory^; saltatoric^; quasative^; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory^, convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter.

We gave two convulsive jerks.

My own more commonplace conjecture is that the sounds are produced by snappings and gratings of the big mandibles ("He is gritting his teeth," said a shrewd unornithological Yankee, whose opinion I had solicited), and that the wing movements may be nothing but involuntary accompaniments of this almost convulsive action of the beak.

The creature made a convulsive leap into the air, and dropped to the grounddead; and Iwell, I believe I started for camp to tell Nat.

The handsome young tiger gave one convulsive leap into the air and fell on his side stone dead.

Stifled sobs and convulsive movements occasionally escaped this little group of acutely feeling and warm-hearted beings, betraying the strength of the emotions they would fain conceal.

And he burst into convulsive weeping.

She half expected that Bosio would rise, and come to her and comfort her, perhaps, as she hid her face in her hands, shivering in fear of herself and shaking a little with the convulsive sob that was so near.

And, dash'd upon the cliff's hard surface die; High o'er their rocky bounds the billows swell, Then to their deep abyss affrighted fell; Earth groaning heaves with dire convulsive throws, While yawning gulphs her central caves disclose: 90 Now rush'd a frighted throng with trembling pace Along the vale, and sought the mountain's base; Purpos'd its perilous ascent to gain, And shun the ruin low'ring o'er the plain.

Guided by the convulsive efforts of the sufferer, Bloundel tore off his clothes, and after a moment's search, perceived under the left arm a livid pustule.

It does not seem strange that strong men should have died by a single ecstasy of emotion too convulsive, when we bear within us this tremendous engine whose slightest pulsation so throbs in every fibre of our frame.

Onward in his fiery travel Abdel-Hassan held his way, Yielding to the camel's instinct, halting not, by night or day, 'Till the faithful beast, exhausted in her fearful journey, fell, With her eye upon the palm-trees rising o'er the lonely well: With a faint, convulsive struggle, and a feeble moan, she died, While her still surviving master lay unconscious by her side.

His mother had just died, and his little sister, Suzanne, just seven years old, clung to him with convulsive tenderness.

Rudolf breathed a few words of an almost forgotten prayer, when the animal, uttering a dreadful yell, gave a convulsive spring into the air, and fell lifeless, half smothering the Baron with its gore.

He no sooner saw his followers within the door, than he exclaimed, with convulsive eagerness, "There, there, that is your man!

The convulsive efforts of the truant steam, echoing across the harbour, told me I had little time to lose: so, bidding farewell to friends, I hurried down to the quay, and was soon bowling over a lake as smooth and polished as the bald head of age.

" She ceased to speak: the breath became shorter and shorter, till it only came with convulsive gasps.

I mis-remember exactly who fired itwos it you, Meetuck?" Meetuck, being deeply engaged with a junk of fat meat at that moment, expressed all he had to say in a convulsive gasp without interrupting his supper.

All the rest was convulsive despair and darkness.

He was motionless, excepting a sort of convulsive movement, between sprawling and clutching of the fingers of the right hand, which was extended on his knee.

His right arm trembled, made several convulsive twitches, finally succeeded in lifting his right hand the few inches to the arm of the chair.

Their hands twitched and their muscles gave convulsive jerks, as they worked themselves into a fever of blood- lust.