He threatened the Mob with the vengeance of the Inquisition: But in this moment of popular phrenzy even this dreadful name had lost its effect.
Worked up to phrenzy by the urgent danger, shrinking from the approach of death, terrified by the Daemon's threats, and seeing no other means to escape destruction, the wretched Monk complied.
I am aware that in one of their most ruinous vagaries, the people were themselves betrayed into the same phrenzy with their Representatives.
Mr. Brown gives me the following specimen of the phrenzy which prevailed at New York on the opening of the new government.
At once she seized it with a degree of phrenzy not to be described; and subsequently, with a bit of sharp shell, disfigured her person in so shocking a manner that in a few minutes not a vestige of her former beauty remained.
For only so may we hope to save ourselves from the madness of his phrenzy when he shall awake.
So they all took great pity for Sir Launcelot, but yet they feared his phrenzy when he should awake.
The Fever might have marched before her, Pain might have stood at her right Hand, Phrenzyon her Left, and Death in her Rear.
What Phrenzy in my Bosom rag'd, And by what Care to be asswag'd?
In the very phrenzy of grief, that succeeded these words, he flung himself upon the floor, dashing his head and hands against it, and rolling and writhing like one in mortal pain.
This added fuel to the fire; and the irritation of the public mind was roused into phrenzy by the impression that perjured witnesses were suborned from foreign countries to immolate the Queen upon the altar of vengeance.
The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings, and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them.
The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings, and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them.
He bitterly reflected on his past conduct: reason, probity, honour, all whose laws he had violated in the phrenzy of his passion, now regained their empire in his breast.
The desperate fanatic Venner, in the reign of Charles the second, was not more transported with religious phrenzy and madness, than an unfortunate family in Carolina at this time happened to be.
At last the popular phrenzybegan to subside, and gave way to painful remorse.
No age nor sex were secure from such suspicions, when ignorance, malice and phrenzy joined in framing accusations, and selecting victims at pleasure.
Indulgence and lenity might perhaps prove more efficacious, as the swellings of phrenzy would in time subside, in proportion as they exceed the bounds of nature.
When committed under a phrenzy from despair, can it be more offensive in the sight of God, than under a phrenzy from a fever, or in lunacy?
He is fearful that Mr Faulkland's phrenzy is not to be calmed, but by consenting to marry him, and circumstanced as he now is, that thought is terrible.
The phrenzy which is charged upon my brother, must belong to myself.
The phrenzy that lately prompted me to blood was gone; my state was desperate; my rescue was impossible.
My heart was visited and rent by his pangs--Oh that thy phrenzy had never been cured!
With regard to myself, I had acted with a phrenzy that surpassed belief.
My repugnance to move gave birth to ferociousness andphrenzy when force was employed, and they were obliged to consent to my return.
Self-violence, or a phrenzy far more savage and destructive than this, may be expected to succeed.
I had mistaken the heroism of friendship for the phrenzy of love.
But she was inexorable; and proof against his phrenzy as well as his persuasion.
It was with great difficulty that even with the assistance of his English servants I could prevent his destroying himself in the phrenzy of his grief.
So, sir, your late phrenzy was nothing more than the unbridled haste and inconsiderate volition of youthful folly?
Phrenzy footed it; troop followed troop, broke and dissolved in flashes of white limbs when Dionysus of the sly smile and rosy cheeks bewitched thousands with his strange madness.
She was never a maid for a kissing-gate at long shadow time, but when she saw Phyllida's heart flutter with quick emotion before the approach of Mr. Vernon, a primitive phrenzy set her cheeks aglow and fired her eyes to a livelier blue.
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