phrensy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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How vicious hearts fume phrensy to the brain!
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
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
She did not carry her phrensy so far as the other, but her miracles and her sanctity made a great noise; she pretended that she was paralytic, and could not leave her bed.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio
But the stratagems of affection were equally matched by the sagacity of revolutionary phrensy, and the doomed were dragged to light.
From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
This play, translated from Æschylus, exhibited the phrensy of Orestes, and his final absolution from the vengeance of the Furies.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
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