If you show such a contempt of death, in deference to a custom founded in mere caprice, can it be wondered that a woman should show it, in the first paroxysms of her grief for the loss of him to whom was devoted every thought, word, and action of her life, and who, next to her God, was the object of her idolatry?

This paroxysm at length exhausted itself.

The work came in paroxysms with intervals of almost complete stagnation.

Her caress and passionate forgiveness were always ready for the paroxysm in which she was violently pushed away and combated with struggling feet and hands, before came the period of exhaustion in which he nestled close, panting from weakness.

The West-country people are apt to attribute these paroxysms to the possession of a devil; and so did Grace that night.