... It appeared that he had suffered some convulsion, some delirium, and that he had fallen; that the fall had accelerated his end, according to the prognosis of Frere Sylvain...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...For several minutes the two lay thus, and then a sudden convulsion ofthe giant carcass at the man's side, a tremor, and a stiffening broughtTarzan to his knees beside the crocodile...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...The white man does notlynch or maltreat the Negro; indeed I have never heard of a lynchinganywhere in South America except occasionally as part of apolitical convulsion...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
...Here is something more brutal, producing more convulsion in the sufferer...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...And if nature may be disturbedby the slightest involuntary act of the king, it is easy toconceive the convulsion which his death might provoke...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The earth below looked as if it had beentorn to shreds in some titanic convulsion of ages past...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930」
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