phrenetic

Example Sentences

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"How you must laugh, stranger, at seeing those miserable creatures who stupidly believe they are copying your country," the beggarly phrenetic continued shouting.

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente

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.

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

Indeed, this word phrenetic or maniac is no reproach; it is identical with mantic --prophetic.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

This was very new; it was also very strange what a fascination he found in his phrenetic exercises.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry