convulsiveness

When she got back to her seat, Lisa's head went down on her arm on the desk, and presently even her yellow plaits shook with the convulsiveness of her sobs.

Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart George Madden Martin 1901

The war itself, with the temper of society preceding it, can indeed be best described by that very word convulsiveness.

“Convulsiveness.” Specimen Days 1892

His emotion had not the convulsiveness which, with men of his age, is apt to accompany the exhibition of much feeling.

Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890

The problems he sets on the stage are all concerned with hysteria; the convulsiveness of his emotions, his over-excited sensitiveness, his taste which demands ever sharper condimentation, his erraticness which he togged out to look like principles, and, last but not least, his choice of heroes and heroines, considered as physiological types (— a hospital ward! —): the whole represents a morbid picture; of this there can be no doubt.

The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

He could stand now with one support, and this was his young godfather's right arm, to which he held tightly, but without any nervous convulsiveness -- he was too happy for that now -- during the prayers that entreated for his being safely gathered into the Ark, and the

The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The war itself, with the temper of society preceding it, can indeed be best described by that very word convulsiveness.

Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

Maybe you could get some data on the effect of "asshole" on convulsiveness, Dr. McClung!

In my time of dying Elizabeth McClung 2008

The abounding presence of numerous experimental motors to-day is so stimulating to the imagination, there are so many stimulated persons at work upon them, that it is difficult to believe the obvious impossibility of most of them -- their convulsiveness, clumsiness, and, in many cases, exasperating trail of stench will not be rapidly fined away. [

Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906