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  • "Convulsion," was a word that held a terror for Kate above any other in the medical books.

    A Daughter of the Land Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • He would sign the Constitution despite his misgivings, Hamilton said, because the alternatives were “anarchy and Convulsion on the one side,” and, on the other, a remote chance that the Constitution would do some good.14

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Convulsion in browser share stats: Safari plunges by Stephen Shankland, Cnet Aug 5

    Internet News: Browsers Archives 2010

  • If, after consulting each other, they agreed on “a few necessary amendments” while “determining to join heartily in the System so amended, they might, without Danger of public Convulsion or Confusion, procure a general Adoption of the new Government.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • If, after consulting each other, they agreed on “a few necessary amendments” while “determining to join heartily in the System so amended, they might, without Danger of public Convulsion or Confusion, procure a general Adoption of the new Government.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • He would sign the Constitution despite his misgivings, Hamilton said, because the alternatives were “anarchy and Convulsion on the one side,” and, on the other, a remote chance that the Constitution would do some good.14

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • If, after consulting each other, they agreed on “a few necessary amendments” while “determining to join heartily in the System so amended, they might, without Danger of public Convulsion or Confusion, procure a general Adoption of the new Government.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • He would sign the Constitution despite his misgivings, Hamilton said, because the alternatives were “anarchy and Convulsion on the one side,” and, on the other, a remote chance that the Constitution would do some good.14

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Convulsion in browser share stats: Safari plunges by Stephen Shankland, Cnet Aug 5

    Internet News: August 2009 Archives 2009

  • Convulsion in browser share stats: Safari plunges by Stephen Shankland, Cnet Aug 5

    Internet News: Browser Stats 2009

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