spasms

It had during its continuance brought on breathlessness on exertion, and what she called spasms or "grippings at the heart," no doubt the basis of her uneasy feelings in left hypochondrium.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia - spasms from the Pacific "Ring of Fire," which spawns disasters from deep within the Earth.

Indonesia Hit By Tsunami, Volcanic Eruption By SLAMET RIYADI 2010

You can be in spasms and the doctors can't tell you why.

USATODAY.com 2008

Blues D Bryce Salvador did not dress a day after leaving with back spasms from a first-period cross-check by Nashville's Jason Arnott, and Murray said Salvador was day to day. ...

USATODAY.com 2007

The smile grows and grows until the moment of triumph when they simply fall on the floor in spasms of laughter.

AKMA’s Random Thoughts 2006

I asked innocently, and of a sudden became aware that he was rocking to and fro in short spasms of inward laughter.

News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

His organ, deflating in short spasms like an old man coughing,

feminist blogs 2009

For the squeamish reader it will be enough to say that between midnight and three o'clock we experienced every known symptom of violent food-poisoning; sweated, shivered, writhed, retched and all the rest of it; clasped our stomachs in spasms of pain which, like those of childbirth, forced groans out of us against our will; thought, during brief limp intervals, of our home in England which we should never see again; wondered whether our bodies would be sent back there or buried beside the Ebro; and hoped the children would not miss us very much.

Try Anything Twice 1938

Frank and G. J.’s mom scream at each other in spasms of mutual distrust and miscomprehension, and she tries, within her limited emotional range, to explain why she was such a bad parent.

Quirked Around 2007

Frank and G. J.’s mom scream at each other in spasms of mutual distrust and miscomprehension, and she tries, within her limited emotional range, to explain why she was such a bad parent.

Quirked Around 2007