Pete's wife, Kathleen, a producer at CBS, took a look at the spasmodic motion and said, "It looks like the film from the bank when they tape bank robbers."

There followed a few spasmodic muscular motions, and then an audible breathing and visible motion of the chest.

Under the influence of it Cowles made one or two spasmodic motions of his hands, as if to grasp the sides of his seat, and then half rose, but only to sink down again, though with an evident effort.

Blood swirled out to darken the pond; the woman made spasmodic motion and died.

For a moment or two, there was spasmodic motion among the survivors, drawing away from the invaders, as people thrown into raw panic might pull back from machinery run amok, and also from the remains of their victims.

The sun, jerking in small spasmodic motions, slowed, lost its glare, became oblate.

Then, at the drop of a coin or bill in his tip bucket, Simon, with a sound like the whirring of gears, jolts into spasmodic, stiff-jointed motion - without his feet ever leaving their plinth.

Doug saw it raising its blade-like forelegs up and pausing, and, before he could react, it brought them down in sharp, spasmodic motions.

When William Swain, as Herr Dorn, was forced to dance, his spasmodic motions, signaling futile resistance to the triumph of the magician's will, had a tragic pathos.

When we want something very badly, we convince ourselves-" The fingers moved in hers, spasmodic motion, death throes.