phrenetic
Example Sentences
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Weakly at first he fought off his captor; then, as fear overwhelmed him, he became possessed of a phrenetic energy and struggled with the strength of two men.
From The Winds of Chance by Rex Ellingwood Beach
It was a phrenetic indictment, but under the paltry rhetoric of the man there was genuine indignation and pain.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
They tell us that, as the disorder proceeds, it eats into the brain; either causing the dog to be destroyed, or driving it phrenetic.
From The Dog by Dinks
It was a gymnastic exercise rather than a dance, the delirium of an acrobat, a phrenetic movement like the war dances of African tribes.
From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Frances Douglas
And now, as might be expected, Jack's disorder, which had hitherto been comparatively of the calm and melancholy kind, broke out into the most violent and phrenetic exhibitions.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
