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These things are not miraculous, being duplicated in experiments on involuntary cataleptics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gradually life wrestled again out of winter, and the Knight, as cataleptics must, finished the address which he had begun with the word "Unlucky--" "woman, of whom art thou mother?"

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

Can you wonder that the country is being hypnotized by the sight of so many cantankerous cataleptics?

From Psycho-Phone Messages by Grierson, Francis

This would account for the fact that places where cataleptics and idiots have died are often haunted by semi and by wholly animal types of phantasms.

From Werwolves by O'Donnell, Elliott

Suppose they were in the condition of cataleptics, sensible of what passed around them, but paralyzed to the motionlessness and seeming insensibility of death?

From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)