phrenetic
Example Sentences
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Yet here I sit, as yet unimmolated on the altar of phrenetic vengeance.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
I swore it in a mighty frenzy of repentance, in a very lust to do battle with Satan and with my own flesh and a phrenetic joy to engage in the awful combat.
From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini
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 G. G. Findlay
This was very new; it was also very strange what a fascination he found in his phrenetic exercises.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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 Evariste Regis Huc
