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Updated: May 11, 2025
And behold, the peace proves only to be the lull before the thunderstorm; and one electric shock sets free forces unsuspected, transcendental, supernatural in the deepest sense; forces which we can no more stop, by shrieks at their absurdity, from incarnating themselves in actual blood, and misery, and horror, than we can control the madman in his paroxysm by telling him that he is a madman.
On one occasion, some one came to him bewailing, and weeping, and embracing his knees in a paroxysm of grief, because of all his fortune little more than 50,000l. was left! "What did Epaphroditus do?" asks Epictetus; "did he laugh at the man as we did?
"There's one other I might consult," he admitted casually. "On my way here I saw one of Feisul's staff captains driving in a cab toward the Jaffa Gate." The instant effect of that remark was to throw the wounded man into a paroxysm of mingled rage and fear. He almost threw a fit.
At periods of forty-eight hours it ripened a crop of spores, and would burst out of the corpuscles, scattering throughout the blood and the tissues of the body, and producing the famous paroxysm.
He started at my sudden calmness of manner, but said that he thought it might be as well for my sake to name, what I had already stated to him, in regard to the obscurity of my birth, as a plea for his seceding from the connexion. When he had departed, I burst into a paroxysm of tears, but they were tears shed not for the loss of him I now despised, but of wild sorrow at my unmerited degradation.
'Curses on the old dotard! she cried, in a paroxysm of rage 'were it not for him, I might revel in the arms of my handsome Italian, whose unaccountable scruples will not permit him to enjoy the bliss of love with me, while I have a husband. Were that husband DEAD Then, like a Mighty Shadow, came that dark thought over her soul.
I hope he won't find out how silly I am. He called me his golden idol " Henrietta, with a scream of rage, tore the letter across, and stamped upon it. When the paroxysm subsided she picked up the pieces, held them together as accurately as her trembling hands could, and read on. " but he is not all honey, and will say the most severe things sometimes if he thinks he ought to.
And this is the place agreed upon, it is there that the comrades of the other country should be to receive them and to carry their boxes to the receiving house There is nobody there, however! Where are they? The first moments are passed in a sort of paroxysm of expectation and of watching, which doubles the power of hearing and of seeing.
"The crackers was moldly and the pork full o' maggots, and the Surgeon has warned us time and again against eatin' them greasy fried messes. All the doctors say that blackberries is very healthy, and they certainly taste nice." Shorty's paroxysm of rage expended itself, and he decided it wisest to accept Si's advice. "The berries is certainly fine, Si," he said with returning good humor.
Is pain and suffering not our lot from the cradle to the tomb? But I am not ill, I was never better in my life than I am at this moment." Here she was seized with a paroxysm of nervous tremors that convulsed her frame most fearfully, and completely belied her words. Becker rushed forward and held her firmly in his arms. "God give me strength!" he murmured.
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