How To Use Convulse In A Sentence
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He remembers his mother convulsed with laughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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He convulsed the audience with his funny acts.
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By 1983, protests against the dictatorship by social organizations and the banned political parties convulsed the country.
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There is the convulsed boy foaming at the mouth and the man emerging from the tombs with an unclean spirit.
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He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Étoiles 'magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
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Then what felt like a surge of electricity convulsed her body.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whole world was convulsed over the passing away of the great man.
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At one point the entire audience was so convulsed it looked like a Mexican wave.
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Even before the overture starts, there is a silent ballet, characterised by odd tics and jerks: the eight dancers appear to be convulsed by supernatural forces greater than themselves.
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In the early '90s, the country was really convulsed by the murder rate.
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The combination of Chase's bowling ball technique, his seriousness about the whole thing, and Aaron's outrageous snort convulsed everyone.
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His heart pounded, and his body was convulsed with pain: a residue of the terror of his nightmare.
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Surely his body is convulsed with pain as ours is.
Christianity Today
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Kristine tightened her muscles while her body convulsed.
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The whole world was convulsed over the passing away of the great man.
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Veins convulse everywhere in my arm, so shot full of liquid I am sure they will burst.
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Her body convulsed into spasms and the twitching got worse as the situation got worse.
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Don't be convulsed with laughter, which stultifies you.
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Please excuse the lack of in-depth analysis of this story, but it's hard to type when your entire body is convulsed with hysterical laughter.
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The whole world was convulsed over the passing away of the great man.
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Which wasn’t too bad until I noticed it was absolutely everywhere and started to convulse from the overdose.
Fashion rant « Dyepot, Teapot
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His finger convulsed on the trigger, even as he leveled the weapon for aim.
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And then Jimjim suddenly convulsed, straining against his chains.
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My whole body convulsed until I shrank against the wall.
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Thankfully, the lieutenant had slipped into unconsciousness, instead of continuing to squirm and convulse in obvious discomfort due to the attack on his nervous system.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
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No one but the most obdurate can fail to acknowledge that the main political problem that has convulsed this beautiful State is still a long way from being resolved.
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LONDON – Eat My Handbag, Bitch! is the name of a vintage clothing shop in London's newly trendified East End. English cheekiness of this genre would normally convulse me with mirth, but I find I am strangely unamused.
My Tour of London: Classic Drag, Chien , C-s
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He let out a cry that convulsed his bulky frame and jerked his arm.
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In September 1949, tens of millions hoped that the establishment of a Communist government in China would bring an end to the military and political turmoil that had convulsed the country for most of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Her standing out in the room was the signal for a convulsed titter from the other prisoners.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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As one ghastly fact after another comes out, it is for once no journalistic exaggeration to say that a whole country is convulsed by this tragedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created.
Chapter 4
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As they approach the wall, it is hard to witness their faces, convulsed in grief.
Times, Sunday Times
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Penn is convulsed with ostentatiously felt emotion.
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earthquakes convulsed the countryside
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Jessica reached for the button to summon the nurse even as Sam's body began to convulse.
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After King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the nation was convulsed by the worst riots in its history.
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Ethan's face was convulsed with unspeakable rage & confusion.
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She looked to the king and queen for support, but both were convulsed with laughter.
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Not only are the non-violent actions of one man and the people who are following him causing millions of people to convulse with political and civic activism, but agents of the state are involved in speech suppression using modern technology, while it is age-old social media that seems to be the primary driver.
Alan W. Silberberg: Oldest Tech, Newest Hero?
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No one but the most obdurate can fail to acknowledge that the main political problem that has convulsed this beautiful State is still a long way from being resolved.
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The vet told us that the cat would probably convulse, loose her bowels or pee on the blanket, and make one last breath-like movement but that she wouldn't be aware of it, because she was just going to fall asleep.
Dante Requiem
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The whole time, convulsed or fainting bodies are taken away by the ambulances.
Global Voices in English » Rwanda: Fifteen years after the genocide
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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter.
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When I released her, her body convulsed with spasms of pain.
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He pointed at the fat body, which had begun to twitch and convulse.
End of Time
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He called 911 after the girl began to convulse a couple of hours after he gave her the Suboxone, the papers say.
Alaska Teen Injected With Heroin Passes Away
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With the Arab world convulsed by the unrest in Tunisia and Egypt and with the acute danger that such instability will result in the region lurching even further into Islamic theocratic tyranny, the British Foreign Secretary's response is — to bash Israel.
Notable
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Olivia's face convulsed in a series of twitches.
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She hit with a thud and water spewed from her mouth as her body convulsed, racked with coughing.
Healing the Highlander
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The evil spirit convulsed the man and cried out with a loud voice as he came out of the man.
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It strikes me as a brilliant patch of spiritual light, against a backdrop of the escalating darkness of hate, vengeance, and communal frenzy that convulses our political culture today.
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The whole world was convulsed over the passing away of the great man.
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Its potential arrival on British TV screens, say some observers, could not be more timely: from Cheryl Cole's dramatic firing by The X Factor USA to allegations that this year's Britain's Got Talent had been "fixed" by Simon Cowell's production company, the talent show landscape has become convulsed with spats and rumours of skulduggery.
The Voice: a kinder, gentler talent show that's sending the BBC and ITV to war
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The country was convulsed by civil war at the time.
Times, Sunday Times
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[Gosse's "Natural History."] "And now conceive the massive frame of the megathere convulsed with the mighty wrestling, every vibrating fibre reacting upon its bony attachments with the force of a hundred giants.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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Inhale follows Paul into the dregs of drug and sex trafficking dens in the Baja borderlands where all things are possible to those who are tough enough, desperate enough, or rich enough to define a new asocial world in which saving one's own life, or the life of one's child, is seen by those convulsed with power, greed, grief, fear, or rage as the only thing that really matters.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Take a Deep Breath (Inhale): Organ Panics
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His face was convulsed with rage.
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Blood sprayed across the man and the woman collapsed at his feet, her whole body convulsed as blood drained from the gaping slash wound in her throat.
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They both scream then, arching and jittering as if convulsed by electric current.
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Zealous political pundit Pat Robertson observes, "The entire world is being convulsed by a religious struggle ... whether Hubal, the Moon God of Mecca, known as Allah, is supreme, or ... the Judeo-Christian Jehovah God of the Bible is Supreme.
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Davey the gagster collapsed on the table, convulsed with laughter.
The Big Nowhere
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A wave of nationalist demonstrations convulsed the country in 1919.
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I convulse for a second, then exhale sharply, slam the glass down and bring the beer to my lips.
Get Laid or Die Trying
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The implication is that he was not capable of being as convulsed by this horror as was everyone else and that he spiritually approved of and even created the atmosphere for this event.
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Then I watched him do it about a week later, and I was distorted and convulsed with hysteria.
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The Government knows that this would convulse the country in anger.
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I was too convulsed with fury to even look at him after what he did to me and Raj.
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This opposition was made manifest whenever there was any question of union with Rome from political motives, and it explains the attitude of the different factions in the last religious controversy of importance that convulsed the Byzantine world: the Hesychast movement.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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The coachman was fat and florid, the footman a particularly fine specimen of flunkeydom, and their faces, as the light of my lamps fell upon them -- they could not speak, for they were both gagged as well as bound -- were so convulsed with terror, that I could see they did not look upon me as a friend.
The Motor Pirate
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During the 1920s and 30s, fascism rose to power in a Europe convulsed by world war and civil war, revolution and counter-revolution, general strikes and mass street battles between right and left.
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A racking cough convulsed her whole body.
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The various shocks that have convulsed the Japanese economy in the past decade have tested traditional management shibboleths to destruction.
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Millennium People" presents a parallel-reality London convulsed by revolution and terrorism, but the novel is also about the sterility of modern comforts and the aphrodisiacal thrill of rebellion.
'The Bonfire Of the Volvos'
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He then seemed almost to be convulsed with delight at the success of his perilous adventure, and, turning his back, held up the handkerchief to discover the value of his prize, with intense glee evident in every feature.
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The whole world was convulsed over the passing away of the great man.
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By my cachuca di caballero (upon my honor as a gentleman)," shrieked out Ros d'Eroles, convulsed with laughter, "I will send it to the Bishop of Leon for a crozier.
Burlesques
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This alliance barely outlasted the bonfires lit to celebrate the proclamation of the Crown Colony of Victoria on 1 July 1851, for later that month the colony was convulsed by the discovery of gold.
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Those were written by the people, and were essentially autobiographical accounts of growing up in a country convulsed by revolution and change.
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Her body convulsed very slightly, but she was silent.
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He remembers his mother convulsed with laughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Olivia's face convulsed in a series of twitches.
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After China announced it would boost key interest rates by a quarter-point, global markets convulsed.
'QE2': How to Play the Fed's Next Big Move
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The flamelike dark cypresses, writhing olive trees, blaring oversize suns, convulsed mountains, and vortically churning stars of Van Gogh's visionary madness are not far off.
Determined Spirit
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He dropped down next to her, and watched in horrified stupefaction as the girl's body convulsed once, twice, then stayed still.
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During the 1920s and 30s, fascism rose to power in a Europe convulsed by world war and civil war, revolution and counter-revolution, general strikes and mass street battles between right and left.
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Her body convulsed as she tried to run, but couldn't.
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Today our nation is convulsed over the issue of children.
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The tree has a sharp kink in its trunk, as if it had been convulsed with pain.
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As one ghastly fact after another comes out, it is for once no journalistic exaggeration to say that a whole country is convulsed by this tragedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then what felt like a surge of electricity convulsed her body.
Times, Sunday Times
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The muscles in her face convulsed
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But there is a still greater fact to notice: as a movement which convulsed all Europe, the Reformation was the one sixteenth-century event which deeply and immediately affected all parts of the British Isles.
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Though the weather was cool and the night tempestuous, he had thrown aside his pea-jacket, with most of his disguise, and was sitting ruefully on his blanket, wiping, with one hand, the large drops of sweat from his forehead, and occasionally grasping his throat with the other, with a kind of convulsed mechanical movement.
The Pilot
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A racking cough convulsed her whole body.
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Within a week the world of hurling was convulsed with speculation about how long Carey had to live and just how big the tumour was.
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The whole world was convulsed over the passing away of the great man.
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He let out a cry that convulsed his bulky frame and jerked his arm.
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Nan, especially, was almost convulsed with laughter at the account Patty gave of the moonlight scene, and her tragic repetition in a stage whisper of "Sylvester, _Sylvester!
Patty's Friends
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Surely his body is convulsed with pain as ours is.
Christianity Today
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The spasm convulses her facial muscles
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He takes a tiny sniff of the weapons grade stink, and is convulsed with disgust.
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Her abdomen was a sea of agony, flames of red-hot pain searing out from the convulsed muscles.
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His danger sense went crazy; his entire body convulsed.
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Her body jerked and convulsed in pain and she fell backwards, dropping her sword with a clatter.
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convulsed with red rage
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One of the most remarkable features of the current presidential race is the absence of any discussion of the events that convulsed the entire political system the previous year.
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Of all the Arab nations convulsed by unrest, Tunisia may stand the best chance to become a democracy.
As Arab Spring Turns Violent, Democracy Advocates Face Big Challenges
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The country was convulsed by civil war at the time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your insides will convulse and your heart will twist.
Famous
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His grin mushroomed into laughter, and a moment later, he was convulsed with it.
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Where Hughes, convulsed with adoration, agonised over the "engineering problem" of simultaneously freeing and confining her breasts, she simply threw aside the seamless, aerodynamical "bullet" bra he made for her and covered her own with Kleenex to achieve the same effect.
The Economist: Daily news and views
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As they approach the wall, it is hard to witness their faces, convulsed in grief.
Times, Sunday Times
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The land was convulsed with industrial dissensions.
Chapter 10: The Vortex
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As Hap watched, with disgust percolating at the bottom of his throat, he saw the nearest fruit twitch and convulse.
End of Time
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While the latter convulsed the entire political system during 1998, it has now remarkably all but vanished from public discussion.
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The poll found that the embattled Tory leader's personal rating is on the slide as his party is convulsed by fresh in-fighting.
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Then she is once more convulsed with the hideous pain of digestion.
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The capacity of trivial events to convulse the media and political commentators never ceases to amaze.
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Some distinguished geologist has discovered, or thinks he has, some new law of creation by which he can trace the underground currents of water; or some noble noble lord has "patronized" into notice some caprice of an aspiring engineer, and straight-way the kingdom is convulsed with contests to set up or cast down these idols.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
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And not surprisingly it has convulsed British politics.
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The poll found that the embattled Tory leader's personal rating is on the slide as his party is convulsed by fresh in-fighting.
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He convulsed the audience with his funny acts.
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The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out.
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Presently the massive bony frame of the Father was convulsed with a fit of coughing.
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The comedian convulsed the crowd
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His throat worked spasmodically, but made no sound, while he struggled with all his body, convulsed with the effort to rid himself of the incommunicable something that strained for utterance.
The Call of Kind
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His words echoed in the emptiness of his mind as his frail, emaciated body began to convulse and was racked by involuntary spasms.
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Hap felt his stomach convulse as he looked at the translucent skin that barely concealed the bones and tendons of the fingers.
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