1 I am seized with a terrible, perhaps mortal illness; I can feel that the paroxysm is fast approaching.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 2 And then, falling upon the chair nearest the door, she burst into a paroxysm of sobs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran. 3 Beauchamp, who had watched with sincere pity the young man's paroxysm of grief, approached him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 84. Beauchamp. 4 Villefort rose, half ashamed of being surprised in such a paroxysm of grief.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 103. Maximilian. 5 And, in her first paroxysm of terror, she had raised herself from the sofa, in the next, stronger very likely than the other, she fell down again on the cushions.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 108. The Judge. 6 Then suddenly he slapped his thigh in a paroxysm of amusement.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO 7 Hilda became more angry at every reply, angry as her mother used to be, in a kind of paroxysm.
8 In a paroxysm of fear, the boy closed the book, and thrust it from him.
9 To hear a hound upon the moor would not work a hard man like this convict into such a paroxysm of terror that he would risk recapture by screaming wildly for help.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor 10 All the demoniacal force of the man masked behind that listless manner burst out in a paroxysm of energy.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN 11 I never saw a lunatic in such a paroxysm of rage before; and I hope I shall not again.
12 The attendant tells me that his screams whilst in the paroxysm were really appalling; I found my hands full when I got in, attending to some of the other patients who were frightened by him.
13 The child, hearing its mother's voice, broke out into a paroxysm of sobbing.
14 He listened while the paroxysm of the child's sobbing grew less and less; and tears of remorse started to his eyes.
15 As soon as this volume began to circulate, Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt fell into a state of coma, arising either from sleep or a rheumatic paroxysm.