phrenetic

Example Sentences

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It was a phrenetic indictment, but under the paltry rhetoric of the man there was genuine indignation and pain.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

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 Beach, Rex Ellingwood

The native Irish, then, have a remarkable tradition, as old, at least, as the seventh or eighth century, that phrenetic madmen lose the corporeal quality of weight.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

Yet here I sit, as yet unimmolated on the altar of phrenetic vengeance.

From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles

But those are more bold than wise who deny their existence, and who profess to explain all occult phenomena and phrenetic moral aberrations by physical causes.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.