paroxysm

This happens every few days, and is called a paroxysm.

So many dead, she thought, killed in one night's paroxysm of violence.

"Especially if he had a paroxysm the morning after and was last seen crying on the bed."

The same kinds of paroxysms have occurred on the left.

He was impatient with his wife, who came to him having paroxysms over one of the children.

The old man went off into a paroxysm of coughing.

She was clearly in a paroxysm of passion and did not seem to understand it.

An, more than that, the idea of it was sending her into paroxysms.

After the first paroxysm of grief was over, they began planning for the future.

She threw up her hands in a paroxysm of emotion.

His feet kicked on the floor, a paroxysm, a dance of death.

Surely one of them should have done something to ease her paroxysm.

My father by then was in a paroxysm of exasperation.

The women would experience paroxysm, which allowed them to relax and sleep at night.

In the paroxysm that followed, Jim did not become unconscious.

Three or four people doubled over in paroxysms of coughing.

In a paroxysm of fear, the boy closed the book, and thrust it from him.

Just look at her," and Jack went off into another paroxysm.

Critics have been driving themselves into paroxysms over this for decades.

At this point the guy with the free ticket goes into paroxysms of excitement.

The name seemed to throw her into fresh paroxysms of alarm.

The doctor's face distorted itself in a paroxysm of fury.

Once a large catlike thing came too near and they went into paroxysms.

Paroxysm was regarded as a medical treatment, and not a sexual release.

To be sure, his capture could loose new paroxysms of terror.