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paroxysm
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synonyms: ebullition ???
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Definition:a sudden outburst of violence, action or emotion
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speaking through his teeth, in a paroxysm of determined rage, “do you know I’ve made up my mind to KILL YOU?”
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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A paroxysm of coughing overcame him. The nurse once more had to cover his mouth and nose with a mask.
John Irving. A Widow for One Year, p.489 (1998)
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He was either angry with his young friends, and then he whipped them, or he was in a paroxysm of apology to them, and caressed their wounds.
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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"Hold me! I'm so frightened!" feigned to be in a paroxysm of terror and contrition, occasioned by the dignity of my appearance.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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my late anguish was swallowed in a paroxysm of despair.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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"Do not be uneasy," he said, touching his elbow; "I think the paroxysm is past." "Yes, she is resting a little now," answered Charles, watching her sleep. "Poor girl! poor girl! She had gone off now!"
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Unable to turn his back on the fanged danger and go on, the bull would be driven into paroxysms of rage.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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there was something decidedly strange in the paroxysm of emotion which had suddenly seized him
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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