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The harridan believed he was making fun of her, and uttering energetical "Der Teufels!" fell upon our hero to bang him with the gingham.

From Tartarin of Tarascon by Daudet, Alphonse

Or they have seized only the musically fanciful and picturesquely sportive side of the Spanish dramas, without their thorough keeping, their energetical power, and their theatrical effect.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

But energetical passions electrify all the mental powers, and will consequently, in highly-favored natures, give utterance to themselves in ingenious and figurative expressions.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

The energetical conception admits of that definiteness of representation which the condition of science demands and renders possible.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

As he warmed with his subject he became more eloquent; his action became energetical without violence; and the pallid and modest youth gradually grew into the impassioned and inspired orator.

From The Pirate, and The Three Cutters by Sullivan, Edmund J. (Edmund Joseph)