At other times, when the raving fit had passed away, and he lay panting in the darkest corner of the interior of the temple, his insanity assumed another and a mournful form.
The raving fit was nearly possessing him again, as the thought of the sacrifice flashed over his darkened mind; but once more its approach was delayed.
Part of the time she lay in a raving delirium; part of the time in helpless exhaustion; but she never forgot, whatever the form assumed by her disease, the desperate purpose in the pursuit of which she had first incurred it.
It is the demoniac element, the raving of some particular demon, that creates greatness either in men or nations.
But her first state was worse than death; she lying for many days in a kind of trance or lethargy, and then waking up to raving madness.
To my mind Aunt Alma has many more whims and fancies, and yet Uncle Franz has never gone raving mad.
She writes that this has made her so nervous she feels like crying orraving all day long, in fact she can't stand so dismal a life any longer.
He has spinal disease and is quite off his head and often has attacks of raving madness.
In your raving you were very strong, mistaking me for the poor Spanish lady.
And such rest I've enjoyed from his raving since then That I've made up my mind he shall wear it again.
Oft by that yew, on the blasted field, Demons dance to the red moon's light; While the damp boughs creak, and the swinging shield Sings to the raving spirit of night!
William's gone raving mad in the dining-room," he said pleasantly, as he sat down.
It discovered only the sea, raving and stormy, and afar to the west a misty, vacant, lifeless line of shore.
Except for the raving of the tempest there was no sound in Israel.
I was hard on his heels as he scrambled up the quarter-ladder and within a yard of him as he gained the deck, while behind us in the waist were men who ran pell-mell, filling the night with raving clamour and drunken halloo.
And presently the moon was casting her placid beam upon this hell of destruction and death, whereas I lay, famished with hunger and thirst, staring up at her pale serenity with weary, swooning eyes, scarce heeding the raving tumult about me.
Then up rose Sir Richard, letting slip the dog and we were upon them, all three of us, our roars and shouts mingled with the fierce raving of the great hound.
His keen eyes lost their fire, his head drooped, and looking down on him as he lay huddled against the rock, I did not doubt but that much of this was no more than the raving of his disordered fancy.
You may see how she has fascinated me, for I could go on raving about her for hours.
But still the scourge continued to resound, and still the raving of the spaniel excited Tom's hot ire.
In another second the bushes crashed to his left hand, and behind him, while the dogs were raving scarcely a pistol-shot off, in the tangled swamp.
Bonny Belle and Blossom are raving half a mile this side of him already.
Claude has been raving about you these two years; you already seem to me the oldest friend in the world.
Besides, he would come raving and imploring--and I'm not quite a woman of stone.
I met old Oldfield the other day, and he wasraving about your case.
He was wounded in the head, and had gone raving mad--was singing and laughing when they came upon hint-- that is why they did not kill him.
In changing moods and tenses that varied from raving delirium to a painful clarity of thought their cry was unanimous and unchanging: "Sick of it!
They knew the Emir El Farish, Janet, although you think that it's raving I am.
Ingoldsby has been simply raving about you, and--I was so anxious, don't you know.
He's been simply ravingabout you," the duchess declared again, in a laughing whisper.
John Bull was in his very worst of moods, Raving of sterile farms and unsold goods; His sugar-loaves and bales about he threw, And on his counter beat the devil's tattoo.
He then carefully lifted up the body of my sister, replaced it in the grave, and covered it over as before, having struck the head of the dead animal with the heel of his boot, and raving like a madman.
Jeanie passed slightly over her journey in company with Madge, having no inclination to repeat what might be the effect of mere raving on the part of her companion, and therefore her tale was now closed.
This raving terminates by Lear falling asleep and Gloucester persuading Kent, still without recognizing him, to carry Lear to Dover, and Kent and the fool carry off the King.
This true feeling, expressed in simple words, might elicit sympathy, but amidst the incessant, pompous raving it escapes one and loses its significance.
They had not long to wait; in a few hours Ishmael was burning with fever and raving with delirium.
And the children will perish horribly in the fire and their mother will go raving mad; for I know I should in her place!
I am no raving priestess to utter words that walk two ways at once.
As he sat looking forth on the sunrise and singing as he touched his lyre, the raving band came up behind him, full of madness and of wine.
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