convulsionist

• Instructed by the trial he had seen me make that nothing could be too severe, he discharged such terrible blows, always on the pit of the stomach, as to shake the wall against which the convulsionist was leaning She caused him to give her one hundred such blows, not reckoning as anything the sixty I had just administered. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864
• It consisted in placing on the convulsionist, who was stretched on the ground, a board of sufficient size to cover her entirely; and as many men as could stand upon it mounted on the board. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864
• He confesses, also, that the body of the convulsionist was bent back so that the head and feet touched the floor, and was supported only on the sharp point of a stake right under her reins, and placed perpendicularly beneath the spot where the stone was to fall. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864
• There a priest, François Bonjour, reproduced the 'convulsionist' orgies which, under the Regency, desecrated the tomb of Deacon Paris. —  Là-bas
• "I had begun, as I usually do, by giving the convulsionist very moderate blows. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864

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