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Example sentences for "violent attack"

  • Again, on the 8th of May he saw her, when she was suffering under a violent attack of purging and vomiting, but, as regarded these effects, was convalescent by the 19th.

  • Last year he came to my office and told me he had had a violent attack of cholera, but I don’t know whether that was a year or two years ago.

  • However, the vomiting returned, and about midnight on the 8th she was seized with such a violent attack of cramp that, at her request, Dr.

  • The time at which a patient recovers his ease after a violent attack of convulsions varies very much.

  • Mrs. Ward's health definitely gave way about Christmas-time, 1919, the breakdown taking the form of a violent attack of neuritis in the shoulders and arms.

  • But the next day a violent attack of her old and still unexplained trouble declared itself.

  • She had hardly been in the new house a fortnight before she succumbed to a violent attack of internal pain, showing symptoms of gastric catarrh, but also affecting the nerves of the right leg.

  • But as I was suffering then from a violent attack of the gout, the sight of my agony convinced him that I was not in condition to stand up to him; so he granted me a respite.

  • He was forced, however, to conclude from the attendant circumstances that the Arabic planned a violent attack on the submarine.

  • On the British front west of the city the Germans made a violent attack, but were driven off with heavy losses.

  • South of the village the Germans made a violent attack on the British position at Hill 121, but owing to the concentrated fire of artillery which mowed them down they were unable to reach the British lines at any point.

  • The directors were heard by their counsel, one of whom, Erskine, afterwards lord chancellor, a strong whig, made a violent attack on Pitt.

  • Wedderburn, who spoke against the petition, made a violent attack on Franklin; he described him as a thief and accused him of acting from the meanest motives.

  • In moving an amendment to the address on the 14th Fox made a violent attack on the government.

  • Continuing my praise I became pressing, not using any force, but those gentle caresses which are so much harder for a woman to resist than a violent attack.

  • The abbe accompanied me to the seminary in a gondola, but at Saint-Michel he had to stop in consequence of a violent attack of vomiting which seized me suddenly; the apothecary cured me with some mint-water.

  • She came in directly after, and I had no sooner swallowed the chocolate than I was seized with a violent attack of sickness, the effect of anger, which at its height may kill the man who cannot satisfy it.

  • He went to an Ophthalmic Institution, and in two or three days he was seized with a violent attack of ophthalmia, which he attributed to the applications used for his recovery.

  • But a violent attack of gout obliged him to relinquish for a time all his occupations.

  • Violent attack of Lumbago, supposed to have been brought on by using the dumb-bells; the party being unaccustomed to their use.

  • After saying this she closed her eyes and was soon seized by a violent attack of fever.

  • Then he closed his eyes again, and a violent attack of fever came on.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always going; another girl; doubt not; during the last years; gills decurrent; greatly admired; help the; historical point; make entry; more usual; paper entitled; radio relay; shall hereafter; small people; that shall; trance state; violent action; violent attack; violent death; violent earthquake; violent effort; violent fever; violent hurry; violent pain; violent speech; violent storm