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For years after the War nothing escaped her epileptically clenched teeth but the mutter of revolutionary debate.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You're going to be in at the death," she answered, as the taxi jerked itself epileptically away from the kerb.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen

The trouble is that the weakling must be partial; the work of one proving dank and depressing; of another, cheap and vulgar; of a third, epileptically sensual; of a fourth, sourly ascetic.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The lessons of these teachers, fusing in the demented mind of the monster, produced transcendental depravity, the apogee of the abnormal and the epileptically obscene.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar

Page 429, line 14.–The literal meaning of this bold figure is, "It struck epileptically, till they bled, the limbs of the inner man."

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul