What is "convulsively"

Usage examples of "convulsively".

I thought I saw Troop Guide Bikaner swallow convulsively when I saluted them, and Lance Karjan seemed to have acquired a cold, because he kept blowing his nose as the last of Cheetah Troop went slowly out of the gate.

Colton bent near solicitously, but when she shuddered convulsively after casting another distressed glance beyond him, he looked around in curiosity to see what had provoked this reaction from her and mentally cursed when he espied Alice Cobble, not only present against his wishes, but in the same slovenly condition she had been in when he had first brought her from London.

The arms were closed around him in a powerful grip, the savage face within a few inches of his own was working convulsively with hate and rage, and the Kachin now was blind to everything save the desire of destroying the white man.

It was a simple, tender caress, expressive and renunciatory and it must have touched her for she shuddered and then, twisting round violently she threw her arms around his neck and crushed her cheek to his, holding him awkwardly and convulsively, less like a woman demanding a lover than a child frightened of the dark.

They refrained convulsively and shambled on to the gangway, looking sideways, like fowls, and holding their rugs awkwardly to their breasts with their dirty, red hands.

And then the prince rushes convulsively to that house, and what if he actually does meet Rogozhin there?

Harskari was blown out like a candle flame and Aleytys was shivering convulsively with a weakness that left her with no grip in her arms or legs, with a mind that flittered about like the bits of light from a glitter ball turning in some cheap and gaudy palace of the dance.

When the noise came at last, her body twitched convulsively, and the towels skidded over an inch closer to the edge of the shelf.

He climaxed convulsively, grinding down on her for long seconds before collapsing, shaking, on top of her.

I found the bar, had both hands on it, swung my body convulsively to the right till my sound foot caught the coaming, reached up to the next bar, reached the teak rail, half dragged, half slid my body over the top, and fell heavily on the deck on the other side.

The Cimmerian started convulsively, wheeled, crouching like a wild thing at bay, lips asnarl, shaking the sweat from his face.

His shoulders shook convulsively in their thin covering of begrimed, pink material.

She sat down, took Edward on her knees, and from time to time pressed this child, on whom her affections appeared centred, almost convulsively to her bosom.

There was another head-to-head conference, with eight long tail sections sticking out and wobbling, the gauntleted claspers working convulsively.

One of them, face congesting with blood, moved convulsively and attempted to rise.