phrensy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
He looks until he is excited to phrensy, from which he very probably passes over to raving madness, or settles down into a state of gloomy despair.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur
Celsus informs us that Asclepiades by friction could calm a phrensy; and further states, that when these frictions were carried to too great an extent, they brought on a lethargic state.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
As he went on, he spoke more and more rapidly, and his eye rolled over the magistrates, as he lashed himself into phrensy, by a recapitulation of his sufferings and his wrongs.
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
First, let me bless the cunning of my sex, that happy counterfeited phrensy that has restored to my poor labouring breast the dearest, best beloved of men.
From The Inconstant by Farquhar, George
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