Convulsively

His fingers clutched the coin convulsively, thankfully. ❋ Various (1902)

His squire or bodyguard clutched his sword convulsively in his right paw and tried to hide his nervousness. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1987)

She jerked convulsively, biting back a scream before she realized that it was only Zoe. ❋ Elizabeth Woods (2011)

Cooper grabbed my hips, forcing me to keep time with him as I tightened convulsively around him. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

Then it crashed over her in a giant wave that had her gasping and crying out and tightening her legs convulsively about his waist. ❋ Deborah Gonzales (2011)

Then, quickly, before either of their heads exploded or they convulsively spun themselves into butter, each shouted out the titles of two poems he thought should be excised to protect the public. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A firebolt erupted inside my brain, and I began to sneeze convulsively—ten, twelve, fourteen times in a row. ❋ Terri Cheney (2011)

He squeezed her hand back, almost convulsively, clutching at it as if it were a lifeline. ❋ Elizabeth Woods (2011)

I noticed Miss Brentwood's shoulders moving convulsively, and for the moment I was angry, for I thought that she was laughing at Ernest. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can see her now, as I write these lines, a leap in advance, her gray hair flying in thin tangled strings, the blood dripping down her forehead from some wound in the scalp, in her right hand a hatchet, her left hand, lean and wrinkled, a yellow talon, gripping the air convulsively. ❋ Unknown (2010)