Her body convulses with pain and she senses that he is being swept overboard, directly off the stern.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
It touches your heart strings and the next moment convulses you with laughter.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
The spasm of mortal agony convulses his features; but I know them for the features of a swarthy man who twice frightened me by taking me up in his arms when I was a child at Wincot Abbey.
"The Queen of Hearts"
Wilkie Collins Last Updated: January 3, 2009