'convulsionist' orgies which, under the Regency, desecrated the tomb of ❋ Keene [Translator] Wallace (1877)
Under desperate pressures the movement tended to change character, claimed to produce miracles, and had convulsionist manifestations. ❋ HERBERT BUTTERFIELD (1968)
The weight of the stone in falling was, therefore, arrested only by the point of this stake, the body of the convulsionist being between them, so that the entire force of the blow was concentrated opposite that point .... ❋ Various (N/A)
The convulsionist continued to complain that the blows I gave her were so feeble that they procured her no relief; and she caused me to put the andiron into the hands of a large and stout man who happened to be one of the spectators. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
And, in truth, the ribs of the convulsionist bent under the terrible shock, sinking under the weight till her stomach and bowels were so completely flattened that the stone seemed wholly to displace them. ❋ Various (N/A)
The same Advocate states, that sometimes the convulsionist threw the weight of her body on the swords, the hilts resting on the floor, and being secured from slipping. ❋ Various (N/A)
But, at the same time, the convulsionist receiving this vision believes it to apply to a certain person, whom he designates by name. ❋ Various (N/A)
The shoes caught fire, and the soles were reduced to ashes, but without the convulsionist experiencing pain in her feet, which she continued to keep for a considerable time in the fire. ❋ Various (N/A)
The convulsionist sometimes demanded enormous pressure instead of violent blows. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
But the convulsionist only laughs at his idle efforts. ❋ Various (N/A)
He tells us that a certain convulsionist long resisted the instinct which bade her demand the succor of a triangular-bladed sword against the left breast, fearing the result. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yet he gives no detailed proofs of prophecies touching temporal matters having been literally fulfilled, unless it be prophecies by convulsionist-patients in regard to the future crises of their diseases. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thus, twenty men at a time often stood upon the board, and were supported on the body of a young convulsionist. ❋ Various (N/A)
Let us even suppose the breast and stomach of a convulsionist protected by an artificial coating of actual gum-elastic, would it be a safe experiment to drop upon it, from a height of twelve feet, a flint stone weighing fifty pounds? ❋ Various (N/A)
One convulsionist descended the long stairs of an infirmary head-foremost, lying on her back; another caused herself to be attached, by a rope round her neck, to a hook in the wall. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yet, not only was the convulsionist not oppressed by it, but she often found the pressure insufficient to correct the swelling which distended her muscles. ❋ Various (N/A)
Peter had gained the confidence of the Rev. Gamaliel Lunk, and had been secretly employed by him to carry on a propaganda among the congregation to obtain a raise in salary for the underpaid convulsionist. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
