Edna bit her handkerchief convulsively, striving to hold back and to hide, even from herself as she would have hidden from another, the emotion which was troubling—tearing—her. Her eyes were ...

General SVR continued: "Putin convulsively arched while lying on the floor, rolling his eyes." Doctors later reportedly ...

At first I didn’t even know I was sick. I felt OK, just had a tickle in my throat, a sniffle or two, and felt a wee bit tired. That was Day One.

But Robert died convulsively a few days later. For months Estes mourned, brooding alone in his room through long, tortured hours. When he emerged, he was changed. Says Kefauver: “I became more ...

The 19th-century women warriors of the former West African kingdom of Dahomey moved “convulsively with the contorted faces of the damned” and uttered “the most savage cries,” singing songs ...

its doors hung convulsively to broken hinges and one of them, when opened, screeches like a ‘stirred up’ hyena.” It had no blackboard, which Perry said was, “an article as indispensable to ...

For him, warming his old broken bones and eating a nice, fat, juicy piece of meat were the purest bliss. He was the first to come to the table, and greedily watched every bite with unflinching eyes, ...

trembled convulsively and cried like a child". Unlike Debussy, Ravel was turned down several times for Prix de Rome, and the last time, in 1905, this denial - apparently justified, as in his ...

Poland’s answer to Batman, ‘Zły’ by Leopold Tyrmand, is far darker than anything dreamt up by the likes of Christopher Nolan. Translator Krzysztof Sokołowski reveals to Culture.pl’s readers the ...

to detailing the labyrinthine military and political conflicts that decimated the City of Light as France lurched convulsively from Second Empire to republic. Smee is especially good at depicting ...

A pair of surprising and even sensational headlines in two local newspapers lead to an unexpected discovery linking Napa ...