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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If one trespasses beyond the limits, he quietly corrects the fault in a plea, never a paroxysm .
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Or had she cut her wrists in a paroxysm of guilt?
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The house of his father contained all the acquisitiveness and greed that promised the paroxysm of class war.
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Then she burst into a paroxysm of croaking laughter, spluttering wildly, her emaciated limbs rolling about under the covers.
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There had been no mad paroxysm of love, with the inevitable bathos.
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We disappear into the darkness, where nobody can see that we're not rolling around the floor in paroxysms of ecstasy.
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With Omar gone, the house seemed to coil up in a paroxysm of eerie energy.