Both Uses
spasmodic
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone.†
Chpt 12 *
- By inserting the barrel of an arruginated male key in the hole of an unstable female lock, obtaining a purchase on the bow of the key and turning its wards from right to left, withdrawing a bolt from its staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and revealing an aperture for free egress and free ingress.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(spasmodic) happening for short periods and not in a regular pattern; or relating to muscle spasms
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)