phrensy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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This threw him into the most raging phrensy, and inspired the genius of cruelty with new life and energy.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John N.
Your remedy, most barbarous man, will prove the greatest poison to my health; for, though my former phrensy was but counterfeit, I now shall run into a real madness.
From The Inconstant by Farquhar, George
The "berserk-gang," or fighting phrensy, was, it has been supposed, produced by eating of some intoxicating herb.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
What house, what family could e'er know peace, If such enthusiast's ravings were believ'd, And phrensy deem'd an insight of the future?
From The Count of Narbonne A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Jephson, Robert
Furious from disappointment, exasperated with the unforseen yet fatal result, they pressed to the assault with the blindness of phrensy.
From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
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