St. Vitus dance
- a variation of St. Vitus's dance.
Example Sentences
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In a bit his head and legs begun to jerk like he had St. Vitus dance, and then he straightened out, stiff as a broomstick.
From Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent by Butler, Ellis Parker
She certainly did get about in a very queer manner— "just like a crab with the St. Vitus dance," so she herself said.
From Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret by Emerson, Alice B.
The shudders grew more pronounced till it seemed as though he were afflicted with a sort of horrible St. Vitus dance.
From The Red Hell of Jupiter by Ernst, Paul
Convulsed by hereditary neurosis, maddened by a moral St. Vitus dance, Poe's creatures lived only through their nerves; his women, the Morellas and Ligeias, possessed an immense erudition.
From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
The pursuit progresses without St. Vitus dance or hysteria to the end of the film.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel
