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She started convulsively when Linette moved after the burgher, but put a force upon herself when she perceived that it was in order to inquire how best to reach the Hotel de Terreforte.

He backed away, moving his stump of tail convulsively, and, as Comethup followed on hands and knees, backed away farther still out of reach.

” Comethup, watching her face, saw that it began to work convulsively in a most appalling manner; then she bent over her stick and began to shake; and finally her great face broke up altogether and she burst into hearty laughter, swaying and rocking herself in her chair and seeming as though she would never stop.

Upon recovering, I at once started to my feet, trembling convulsively in every fibre.

I shrunk convulsively at its every sweep.

I endeavored to shriek; and my lips and my parched tongue moved convulsively together in the attempt-but no voice issued from the cavernous lungs, which oppressed as if by the weight of some incumbent mountain, gasped and palpitated, with the heart, at every elaborate and struggling inspiration.

His eyes, wide and wet, at last flashed fiercely on her; his breast heaved convulsively.

Every one marvelled at the way in which these things had been done in gold, the dog looking at the fawn, and strangling it, while the fawn was struggling convulsively to escape.

178 Their feet moved convulsively for a while, but not for very long.

' With this irrepressible ebullition of mirth, Master Bates laid himself flat on the floor: and kicked convulsively for five minutes, in an ectasy of facetious joy.

Her hand had convulsively clutched her fan, and she held her breath.

We all remained silent, and occupied with our own reflections (my aunt drying her eyes, and now sobbing convulsively, and now laughing and calling herself a fool); until I spoke.

The Sphex’s abdomen is agitated convulsively; the sting penetrates the skin, piercing a ganglion situated just beneath this point; the venom spreads and acts on the nervous cells, which can no longer convey messages to the muscles.

The whole body will start convulsively at a sudden touch or a loud sound which would evoke no response from a more stolid infant.

Running into Sonya's room and not finding her there, Natasha ran to the nursery, but Sonya was not there either.


Natasha concluded that she must be on the chest in the passage.


The chest in the passage was the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostov household.


And there in fact was Sonya lying face downward on Nurse's dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook.


Natasha's face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint's day, suddenly changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad neck and the corners of her mouth drooped.


This battle, which consisted in the capture of a French squadron, was represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were retreating against their will.


A few minutes after the Emperor had passed, the Pavlograd division was ordered to advance.


In Wischau itself, a petty German town, Rostov saw the Emperor again.


In th ... was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head.


The wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity to the Emperor shocked Rostov.


Rostov saw how the Emperor's rather round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his left foot began convulsively tapping the horse's side with the spur, and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not stir.


An adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to place him on a stretcher that had been brought.


The soldier groaned.


"Ooh, ooh, ooh!" grunted the Tartar, and suddenly lifting up his swarthy snub-nosed face with its high cheekbones, and baring his white teeth, he began to wriggle and twitch his body and utter piercing, ringing, and prolonged yells.


On the other table, round which many people were crowding, a tall well-fed man lay on his back with his head thrown back.


His curly hair, its color, and the shape of his head seemed strangely familiar to Prince Andrew.


Several dressers were pressing on his chest to hold him down.


One large, white, plump leg twitched rapidly all the time with a feverish tremor.


The man was sobbing and choking convulsively.


Two doctors-one of whom was pale and trembling-were silently doing something to this man's other, gory leg.


When he had finished with the Tartar, whom they covered with an overcoat, the spectacled doctor came up to Prince Andrew, wiping his hands.


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