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  • Then he gave Piper another spasmodic wink.†  (source)
  • She sits and her cane flexes against the gravel and the boy clicks his buttons in spasmodic flurries.†  (source)
  • As he reached inside the door and flipped the light switch, I managed with a complex but spasmodic movement to throw the towel over the picture so (I hoped) he couldn't see it.†  (source)
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  • She steps right up to it, flips her goggles down to protect her face from the heat The Rat Thing's legs stop their spasmodic movements, as though waiting for her.†  (source)
  • The lion's tail twitched spasmodically as he prepared to spring.†  (source)
  • In the meanwhile, as the thing is difficult to find in France, and your abbe is not probably disposed to make a journey to Paris on my account, I must continue to use Monsieur Planche's anti-spasmodics; and mint and Hoffman's drops are among my favorite remedies.†  (source)
  • —I wonder if your eyes and ears ever make anything save spasmodic contact with your brain.†  (source)
  • George's face at those moments would be flushed, his notes crumpled spasmodically in one hand.†  (source)
  • Spasmodic shivers knotted my empty stomach and I hoped a roaring fire would warm me and stop these scary contractions.†  (source)
  • Inside, spasmodically, the other pain, the pain of the child, heated her.†  (source)
  • When he was agitated, a tic came over him, a spasmodic smile of fright that went up his left cheek.†  (source)
  • But at other times, she would gyrate and make grunting sounds and spasmodically sweep her books and pens to the floor.†  (source)
  • The Commandant, who should have been in his attic office, had become briefly unpinned from his schedule, and the fear which his unexpected presence caused down below was transmitted instantly to Sophie, who thought that Wilhelmine's sudden spasmodic and agonizing clutch around her thighs might cause the two of them to topple and fall.†  (source)
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