What is "violently"

Usage examples of "violently".

Her heart pounding so violently she physically shook, Abigail clawed at his arm.

Such were the remonstrances made to his catholic majesty with respect to the illegality of the prize, which the French East India company asserted was taken within shot of a neutral port, that the Penthievre was first violently wrested out of the hands of the captors, then detained as a deposit, with sealed hatches, and a Spanish guard on board, till the claims of both parties could be examined, and at last adjudged to be an illegal capture, and consequently restored to the French, to the great disappointment of the owners of the privateer.

Why in space was the Adjutor reacting so violently to what was in reality a very minor situation?

And you wonder that the little nihilist groups and labor organizations and associations of agnostics, as you call them, meeting to study political economy and philosophy, say that the existing state of things has got to be overturned violently, if those who have the power and the money continue indifferent.

Just after midday he started so violently that Alec laid a hand on his arm.

The old theory was that oxytocin caused the uterus to contract so violently that the amniotic fluid was forced out of the water bag and into the veins of the womb.

His name was Argan, and he violently disagreed with his high priest on some obscure aspects of astrology.

He shook his head violently and turned to me, because Artel had kept looking at him deadpan.

He was, indeed, while President, violently denounced by the opposition as a tyrant and a usurper, for having gone beyond his constitutional powers in authorizing or permitting the temporary suppression of newspapers, and in wantonly suspending the writ of habeas corpus and resorting to arbitrary arrests.

All three turned to look for their axes, but the ground was heaving and buckling even more violently and their axes had completely disappeared underneath the loose covering of leaves and pines needles that littered the surface.

The old Englishwoman, who had seen something of the world, began to laugh so violently when the document was translated to her that I thought she would have choked.

Sidney Lorrey started violently, for the utterly pleasant voice of the fantastic Boke was in the room.

What Caamas is going to do is polarize good, honest people, all of whom genuinely want justice but differ violently as to what that justice should consist of.

As soon as he came I told him that I had coughed so violently as to break a blood-vessel, which had made me bring up all the blood he saw.

Stunned, the girls watched their father beat up his egg, violently whirling and clacketing the spoon around in the delicate Wedgwood egg cup.