All that he had done or suffered in his last moments was enacted before the eyes of his worshippers, who tore a live bull to pieces with their teeth and roamed the woods with frantic shouts.
As many living serpents as could be collected are now thrown into the column, which is set on fire at the base by means of torches, armed with which about fifty boys and men dance around with frantic gestures.
When they thought he had been driven out of every hole and corner, they thrust him down through the hole in the floor and chased him into the open air with loud cries and frantic gestures.
The barbarous and cruel character of the worship, with its frantic excesses, was doubtless repugnant to the good taste and humanity of the Greeks, who seem to have preferred the kindred but gentler rites of Adonis.
Upon this they fling themselves with almost frantic fury, straining every nerve, and raining blows on it till the word "Halt!
There was a step in the hall, and a voice that drove the blood from Norma's face, and made her heart begin the old frantic fluttering and thumping.
Poor Annie; she would be perfectly frantic if she knew how calmly I was saddling her with a--a terrible past!
Just picture the breaking up of the Congress, the frantic telegrams, the shrieking headlines, the general consternation, and the terrific results that might have followed!
It is unnecessary to add that he talked twenty to the dozen, with an immense amount of gesticulation, and that he could work himself into a frantic state of excitement over anything in two minutes.
The same winds that had wafted it hither had carried to those frantic sky-voyagers beating bayward the scent of the wild water-plant they loved, and with drooping wings and joyful, low-voiced quacks they curved downward.
Boy glanced up, then he stood erect in the boat and watched the detached flocks of frantic water-fowl swerve and pitch and at last mingle in the greater flocks, fading south.
The frantic thing crouched for a second, then sprang away and sought the sheltering branches of a nearby tree.
Poor Billy, he would be quite frantic over the strange disappearance of his chum!
In his frantic care for the master's peace of mind he ran away down the road, forgetting that he was abandoning the girl.
He gripped the woman's arm, and her frantic eyes were turned to him.
Give them a good start, or Buck will catch them," Peter said, his body swaying with the frantic jumping of the straining dog.
Chologaster, on the other hand, invariably darted about in a frantic manner.
And he heard her brother wish that violets might spring from her grave: and he saw him leap into the grave all frantic with grief, and bid the attendants pile mountains of earth upon him, that he might be buried with her.
Her face was drawn, and she enveloped the half-frantic young man in a hostile gaze.
The brief, dizzy syncope which ensues during the frantic bundling of the two sexes he had never experienced, though he yearned for it, during moments of weakness.
You may imagine the hurrahs which followed, the frantic emotion and applause whilst she called up and spoke to Lord Ampthill and one or two other boys whose parents had been especial friends.
Suddenly he saw that his host and hostess were both telegraphing franticsignals to him, and by a great effort he turned it off.
I will pass over the startling plunge which begins my descent, the franticsnatch for the banisters, and the strange, momentary doubt as to which foot must move first, like what a child may feel when learning to walk.
There we were, high and dry on a bank of mud, a scooped furrow on each side of us attesting the frantic efforts of our oarsmen to get a headway, and a long wake, ten feet in extent, marking our distance from the sea behind us.
Further and even more frantic scratchings followed, and anon the king's daughter, who certainly meant to die rather than be left alone in the hands of the foe, eclipsed the moon.
For Mrs. Grose I had an imperative, an almostfrantic "Go, go!
The cold brutality of this stranger's treatment of his mother shocked Jimmy Holden into frantic outrage.
What irony that we should be in deadly conflict with the Power which, as an ally, helped to destroy him and is now engaged in frantic efforts to destroy us!
He was driven frantic by the demands made for convoys by captains and merchants, and his appeals to the Admiralty for more cruisers were unheeded.
Dour evidently approved of their going thither, and presently, turning the corner of one of the most remote buildings, they found the object of their search, half-strangled in his frantic efforts to break the thong that held him fast.
Every submarine cable connecting the fortresses of this coast sounded alarm, particularly high-keyed the frantic signal from Helgoland, the fortress island, thirty-nine miles away.
He drew bead on the nearest hare, and with the puff of smoke from the revolver muzzle the little animal made a frantic leap, ending in a complete somersault and an inert heap of fur.
As he did so, he stepped off the platform, and with a wild shriek and a frantic effort to save himself, he went headfirst down the steps to the ground below.
At the first daub upon his naked body, Ben emitted a yell of despair and made a frantic effort to escape.
The very possibility that he might purchase a hold on her inspired a frantic feeling, like that of the ermine at pollution.
Over by the window a huge form was hurling itself to and fro, from wall to wall and back again, in the frantic endeavor to gain freedom.
