Both Uses of
spasmodic
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Chapter IV A Vanishing Gleam Mr. Tulliver, even between the fits of spasmodic rigidity which had recurred at intervals ever since he had been found fallen from his horse, was usually in so apathetic a condition that the exits and entrances into his room were not felt to be of great importance.†
Chpt 3.4 *
- Mr. Tulliver, who had begun, in his intervals of consciousness, to manifest an irritability which often appeared to have as a direct effect the recurrence of spasmodic rigidity and insensibility, had lain in this living death throughout the critical hours when the noise of the sale came nearest to his chamber.†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
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(spasmodic) happening for short periods and not in a regular pattern; or relating to muscle spasms