convulsed

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 James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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 Matt Bradley 2011

She hit with a thud and water spewed from her mouth as her body convulsed, racked with coughing.

Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

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 Ben Levisohn 2010

The whole time, convulsed or fainting bodies are taken away by the ambulances.

Global Voices in English » Rwanda: Fifteen years after the genocide 2009

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 2011

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 2011

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."

Ben DeVan: Evangelicals And Muslims Loving God, Each Other, And The World Together? Ben DeVan 2011

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 2010

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."

Ben DeVan: Evangelicals And Muslims Loving God, Each Other, And The World Together? Ben DeVan 2011