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Definition of Convulsed
1. convulse [v] - See also: convulse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convulsed
Literary usage of Convulsed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"... life lies in the part he took in the dissensions which convulsed the island
at the time of the great civil troubles in England, his quarrel with the ..."
2. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"The process was carried on during that stormy and convulsed period of society
which succeeded the breaking up of the Roman empire. ..."
3. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: With a Selection from Her by Fanny Burney (1889)
"... and then change from finger to finger, while his left hand kept on the subject,
he was really almost convulsed. And when it was over, rising from his ..."
4. Pilgrimage in Europe and America, Leading to the Discovery of the Sources of by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1828)
"... contributed not a little to the revolutions which have convulsed and still
convulse France, Spain, and Naples. It is idle to talk of philosophes. ..."
5. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"... that he was king of England, having been so honoured by so many obsequious kings.
In the same year a great earthquake convulsed the whole of England. ..."
6. Colonel Alexander K. McClure's Recollections of Half a Century by Alexander Kelly McClure (1902)
"... was quickly followed by the military-court murder of Mrs. Sur- ratt, and a
flood tide of hate that convulsed the country from centre to circumference, ..."
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