phrenetic

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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 Douglas, Frances

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

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

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

As the recitation of the prayers proceeds, you see the Boktè trembling in every limb, and gradually working himself up into phrenetic convulsions. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis