The Dunciad, which, whatever its occasional merits, one cannot read without Spasms both of disgust and moral disapproval, is the literary outcome.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Selecting another tree to chop into firewood took the edge off the Spasms of rage that tended to come up if he started thinking too long about that association of jerks somewhere beyond the sun.
"Gone Fishing"
James H. Schmitz
That nite I thought the Kernel would go into Spasms, he was so nervous.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith