23 Verbs to Use for the Word paroxysms

In persons habitually subject to headach, the arteries of the brain become so irritable, that the slightest cause of disturbance, either mental or bodily, will suffice to bring on a paroxysm.

Lenore, seeing clearly for the first time, suffered a strange, hot paroxysm of emotion never before experienced by her.

Then anger, and agony having reached paroxysm, his lips trembled, his mouth twitched, and brusquely throwing his arm around my neck, he buried his head on my shoulder and burst into tears.

It was, therefore, not a little surprising to behold this paroxysm of rage evaporate before the happy presence of mind displayed by Mr. Fitzmaurice, in immediately beginning to dance and shout, though in momentary expectation of being pierced by a dozen spears.

A small piece of camphor, however, retained in the mouth, is the most reliable and likely means of conquering the paroxysms of this dreaded enemy.

She was a woman who had no need to simulate passion in any shape, and it must have cost her a terrible effort to control the paroxysm of anger and shame and grief that had overcome her.

I have sometimes felt such paroxysms of rage and loathing, but never combined with fear; it was not so much fear of a living man as horror of the dead.

I could guess the paroxysm of rage into which it would throw him, and I would willingly have spared his niece the pain such an exhibition must cause her.

The one sense of infinite loss agitated him, and he indulged his paroxysms of emotion unrestrained, yet silently.

In the midst of that excited gaiety, to which, until lately, he had been so long a stranger, would sometimes intervene paroxysms of the blackest despair, all the ghastlier for the contrast, and with a suddenness so abrupt and overwhelming, that one might have fancied him crossed by the shadow of some terrific apparition.

Pope obeyed, spasmodically, an overmastering febrile paroxysm.

These last, however, as well as mental emotions, often relieve a paroxysm of headach, though they favour its return afterwards.

Yet even this was evidently bravado, for the water started to her eyes, and she could not restrain the paroxysm of coughing that followed.

And the doctor never tasted so great a joy as when he succeeded, with his hypodermic injections, in soothing a paroxysm of pain, in seeing the groaning patient grow tranquil and fall asleep.

L. D.-The bark of the branches of this tree manifests a considerable degree of bitterness to the taste, and is also astringent; hence it has been thought a good substitute for the Peruvian bark, and, upon trial, was found to stop the paroxysms of intermittents: it is likewise recommended in other cases requiring tonic or astringent remedies.

He knew well, by every change of her countenance, by her movements, by every varying curve of her graceful figure, the transitions from passion to repose, from fierce excitement to the dull languor which often succeeded her threatening paroxysms.

The cough becomes more severe, and often comes on in tearing paroxysms, causing sickness and vomiting.

Having shut the door, as we have said, Marston ran down to the edge of the lake and yelled with delightusually terminating each paroxysm with the Indian war-whoop, with which he was well acquainted.

They would foresee when it would seize upon them, and, if in the field, would hasten home to undergo the paroxysms there.

I do not admire its disorderly selfish paroxysms, so grossly short-lived.

Having thus vapoured away the paroxysm of his fury, he became tolerably composed.

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

Prayer had brought its blessed influence, but that calm was more the quiescence proceeding from over-excitement than natural feeling; she felt it so, and dreaded the return of mental agony, as bodily sufferers await the periodical paroxysms of pain.

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  paroxysms