The current stopped, and she convulsed on the cold marble floor.
A cold feeling constricted her throat and she convulsed in a dry heave.
For the next two years all Hungary was convulsed by a horrible civil war, during which the unhappy young king, who fought for his heritage to the last with desperate valour, was driven from one end of his kingdom to the other like a hunted beast.
The whole social fabric had been convulsed and transformed.
The outburst of fanaticism which convulsed Arabia twenty years later had not then reached Yemen, and Europeans, as such, were not exposed to any special danger.