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    paroxysm


    1. One of the prisoners found this to be so amusing that he collapsed on the floor in a paroxysm of laughter


    2. He wriggled his fingers until he got a firm hold and pulled on the horse’s head till it pointed uphill, closely followed by another paroxysm of flailing legs


    3. A paroxysm of coughing wracked Moshe’s body


    4. head till it pointed uphill, closely followed by another paroxysm of flailing legs


    5. stories to those little girls, excited almost to paroxysm at the


    6. Suddenly, during the paroxysm of the celebration, someone broke the delicate balance


    7. Richard broke out in a paroxysm of coughing


    8. For a moment, a paroxysm of laughter penetrated the walls


    9. Surprised, Joe turned, still in a paroxysm of desire, his penis erect, his face a fiery blotch of lust


    10. Raskolnikov, bewildered, suddenly fell into actual frenzy, but, strange to say, he again obeyed the command to speak quietly, though he was in a perfect paroxysm of fury

    11. "Do not be uneasy," he said, touching his elbow; "I think the paroxysm is past


    12. And, without listening to the chemist, who was still venturing the hypothesis, "It is perhaps a salutary paroxysm," Canivet was about to administer some theriac, when they heard the cracking of a whip; all the windows rattled, and a post-chaise drawn by three horses abreast, up to their ears in mud, drove at a gallop round the corner of the market


    13. Claudia recovered from her fainting fit, but not so Don Vicente from the paroxysm that had overtaken him, for his life had come to an end


    14. I was laid alone, for the first time; and, rousing from a dismal doze after a night of weeping, I lifted my hand to push the panels aside: it struck the table-top! I swept it along the carpet, and then memory burst in: my late anguish was swallowed in a paroxysm of despair


    15. She said nothing further till the paroxysm was over; then she continued, more kindly---


    16. "May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion


    17. Linton had sunk prostrate again in another paroxysm of helpless fear, caused by his father's glance towards him, I suppose: there was nothing else to produce such humiliation


    18. Then fearing that his paroxysm might get the better of him, he clutched with one hand the branch of a tree against which he was leaning, and with the other convulsively grasped the dagger with a carved handle which was in his belt, and which, unwittingly, he drew from the scabbard from time to time


    19. The paroxysm over, the apostle of self-denial continued:


    20. Wopsle's great-aunt fell into a state of coma, arising either from sleep or a rheumatic paroxysm

    21. The child, hearing its mother's voice, broke out into a paroxysm of


    22. He listened while the paroxysm of the child's sobbing grew less and less; and tears of remorse started to his


    23. Deeming that a serene and unconscious contemplation of him would best beseem me, and would be most likely to quell his evil mind, I advanced with that expression of countenance, and was rather congratulating myself on my success, when suddenly the knees of Trabb's boy smote together, his hair uprose, his cap fell off, he trembled violently in every limb, staggered out into the road, and crying to the populace, "Hold me! I'm so frightened!" feigned to be in a paroxysm of terror and contrition, occasioned by the dignity of my appearance


    24. Hubble; the last-named in a decent speechless paroxysm in a corner


    25. It then almost invariably appeared that they were subject to the most extraordinary hallucinations and extravagant delusions, the commonest being that the best thing that the working people could do to bring about an improvement in their condition, was to continue to elect their Liberal and Tory employers to make laws for and to rule over them! At such times, if anyone ventured to point out to them that that was what they had been doing all their lives, and referred them to the manifold evidences that met them wherever they turned their eyes of its folly and futility, they were generally immediately seized with a paroxysm of the most furious mania, and were with difficulty prevented from savagely assaulting those who differed from them


    26. And then, falling upon the chair nearest the door, she burst into a paroxysm of sobs


    27. The doctor left him in this paroxysm, knowing that he could do nothing to alleviate it, and, going up to Noirtier, said abruptly, "How do you find yourself?—well?"


    28. Beauchamp, who had watched with sincere pity the young man's paroxysm of grief, approached him


    29. THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS: (Stamps her jingling spurs in a sudden paroxysm of fury) I will, by the God above me


    30. "Dead,—dead!" groaned forth Villefort, in a paroxysm of grief, which was the more

    31. Villefort rose, half ashamed of being surprised in such a paroxysm of grief


    32. " And, in her first paroxysm of terror, she had raised herself from the sofa, in the next, stronger very likely than the other, she fell down again on the cushions


    33. Standing above her, Nostromo did not see the distorted features of her face, distorted by a paroxysm of pain and anger


    34. It was not in Dorothea's nature, for longer than the duration of a paroxysm, to sit in the narrow cell of her calamity, in the besotted misery of a consciousness that only sees another's lot as an accident of its own


    35. I never saw a lunatic in such a paroxysm of rage before, and I hope I shall not again


    36. The attendant tells me that his screams whilst in the paroxysm were really appalling


    37. In Smolensk, at the Malakhov Gate, he had hardly dozed off in a paroxysm of fever before he was awakened by the bombardment of the town- and Smolensk held out all day long


    38. She said nothing further till the paroxysm was over; then she continued, more kindly—


    39. Linton had sunk prostrate again in another paroxysm of helpless fear, caused by his father’s glance towards him, I suppose: there was nothing else to produce such humiliation


    40. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and this infectious virtue is

    41. The cloud of spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight


    42. What did that relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of jealousy


    43. The barricade Saint Antoine converted everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; the carbines which defended this redoubt, among which there were some blunderbusses, sent bits of earthenware bones, coat-buttons, even the casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the brass


    44. Then she slumped against the door in a paroxysm of tears


    45. As he had said, there was probably nothing at all extraordinary in the substance of the narrative itself: a wealthy Englishman’s passion for a French dancer, and her treachery to him, were every-day matters enough, no doubt, in society; but there was something decidedly strange in the paroxysm of emotion which had suddenly seized him when he was in the act of expressing the present contentment of his mood, and his newly revived pleasure in the old hall and its environs


    46. ” And while I smothered the paroxysm with all haste, he sat calm and patient, leaning on his desk, and looking like a physician watching with the eye of science an expected and fully understood crisis in a patient’s malady


    47. He had succeeded in catching the dog, and in a paroxysm of self-preservation had squeezed its throat


    48. He jumped up from his seat exactly as his mother was said to have done, wrung his hands, hid his face in them, and fell back in his chair, shaking all over in an hysterical paroxysm of sudden violent, silent weeping


    49. Ivan, in a sudden paroxysm, bit his lip, clenched his fists, and, in another minute, would have flung himself on Smerdyakov


    50. A sort of paroxysm of indignation seized on Mitya's soul










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    Synonyms for "paroxysm"

    convulsion fit paroxysm frenzy furor excitement outburst rage outbreak spasm attack seizure epilepsy tremor

    "paroxysm" definitions

    a sudden uncontrollable attack