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spasmodically
1. Her head jerked around spasmodically as she sobbed, and her hair still wasn’t rinsed out
2. His very weakness and despair keep Duncan in control and, thus far, that despair is not enough to drive him to the reckless acts of courage he’d shown spasmodically throughout the wild journey to Gathandria
3. He swallowed spasmodically, his Adam's apple
4. loss that he swallowed spasmodically at the lump rising in his throat
5. Robert was rigid in the seat beside him, eyes staring ahead, right hand clawing spasmodically at Bart’s thigh
6. His jaws champed spasmodically, froth appeared on his blackened lips
7. But as Conan tugged vainly at his sword, wedged deep in the hairy body, the frothing jaws snapped spasmodically shut, an inch from the Cimmerian's face, and he was hurled to the sward by the dying convulsions of the monster
8. The red eyes glared up at him with awful life, then glazed and set; the great hands knotted spasmodically and stiffened
9. He licked his lips spasmodically
10. And as he watched, its struggles ceased and it lay jerking spasmodically, staring upward with its grisly dead eyes
11. Zorathus gulped spasmodically, the liquid slopping over on his heaving breast
12. jerked spasmodically then collapsed to the ground like a ragdoll, dead before his
13. value of equity may fluctuate spasmodically which directs strategic attention to the only
14. investors tend to buy spasmodically, increasing volume as a stock climbs higher
15. was still present, writhing spasmodically towards him, while the other owl stood
16. Their bodies twisted and turned, jumping spasmodically
17. spasmodically down the hill
18. The bitter winter wind took Aesa’s breath away and his chest gulped spasmodically
19. Mara's attention focused specifically on her screen lover and she lurched towards him with outstretched arms, fingers opening and closing spasmodically
20. It littered the corridor outside Spiro"s flat and they fell to their knees, stark naked as they were, spasmodically trying to collect the confetti
21. ' His face looked bloodless and his mouth opened and closed spasmodically, but no words came out
22. It was bad enough that I'd caused the accident which paralysed him, but when he discovered about Sir Anthony and me—' Her throat muscles worked up and down spasmodically and she gave a particularly joyless little laugh
23. his eyes were closed, his lips twitched spasmodically
24. He was waving his arms and writhing about like one in a fit, his goggle eyes bursting from their sockets, whilst his huge stomach quivering spasmodically, alternately contracted and expanded as if it were about to explode
25. Prissy picked lazily, spasmodically, complaining of her feet, her back, her internal miseries, her
26. was inhaling the smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes
27. The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously
28. Then spasmodically she thought of something to say which seemed more intimate
29. Now to this hand, now to that, he yawed in his faltering flight, and still at every billow that he broke, he spasmodically sank in the sea, or sideways rolled towards the sky his one beating fin
30. Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven
31. As both steel and curse sank to the socket, as if sucked into a morass, Moby Dick sideways writhed; spasmodically rolled his nigh flank against the bow, and, without staving a hole in it, so suddenly canted the boat over, that had it not been for the elevated part of the gunwale to which he then clung, Ahab would once more have been tossed into the sea
32. She was not weeping, but was spasmodically crying out some words which she could not utter properly, because she was shivering and shuddering all over
33. But on seeing that precious little face, which for the last three days she had only looked at from a distance, she trembled all over and her gray head began twitching spasmodically over the coffin
34. Even the slight shivers that spasmodically ran down his spine—such as always occur in particularly nervous people when they are feverish and have suddenly come into a warm room from the cold—became all at once strangely agreeable
35. Prince Hippolyte laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte whom he had promised to take home
36. He sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes
37. " Then, while he was still listening to the unfamiliar echo of his own voice, he heard just behind him a splash, splash, splash, and his left arm jerked itself spasmodically from beneath his breast, the hand simultaneously touching a substance that was hard, cold, and slimy
38. Fraser’s caring for him, made love to her spasmodically, just to convince himself, and then, convinced by something in her voice, fled to Lady Harden for protection, and was scolded by her
