Condescended to notice the ravings of Mr. Robert Ingersoll, at Boston College Hall, on the evening of the 11th of November.
But the object of his ravings died on the scaffold, while he himself passed away, leaving behind him little more for history to record than that he was the brilliant young soldier--the Hero of Lepanto.
Surely her ravings were taking a strange freak," he thought to himself; "yet he would be patient with her and humor her strange fancy.
You must not mind the strange ravings of a person in delirium," said the doctor, curtly; "they are liable to imagine and say all sorts of nonsense.
Some took it for the casual ravings of an occasional enthusiast.
The one prevailing thought in all the sick boy's ravings was Jacob Dobbin's rose bush.
I refer you to yesterday's papers," it said icily, "for my answer to your ravings about that absurd newspaper story.
The following ravings of epilepsy, or of whatever was the disorder of the girl, are part of the evidence of Dr.
There were other days and nights through which she lay in a sleep, which seemed-no more like real sleep than the shrill voice of her ravings had seemed like her real voice.
His ravings have been mostly about your honour's house in Soho Square.
And this loquacious wife of his will repeat his ravings to all her gossips.
Justice--as represented by a Bow Street magistrate--would want a great deal more evidence than the incoherent ravings of a drunkard, repeated at second hand.
The hysterical ravings of a drunken valet are about as trustworthy as the libels of electioneering pamphleteers; and I am surprised that a man of the world like your lordship should concern himself with such folly," said Topsparkle.
The door was not opened; probably those within feared to excite the king; and the chamberlain whispered to Edmund: "He is in delirium, his ravings are very painful.
In his ravings he was incessantly acting over the scenes through which he had passed during the dreadful night which followed St. Brice's Day.
In the original text he was absorbed by his unpleasant position; when he prays for refreshing slumber, and the music represents his repeated starting up from rest, the altered version puts love-ravings for Zaide into his mouth.
Shylock was almost out of his mind with rage and grief, and from his frenzied ravings it was difficult to say which loss he felt the most--that of his ducats or his daughter.
Errington listened to theseravings with an air of patience and pitying gentleness, then he said with perfect coolness-- "You are quite right, Sigurd!
The bonde had listened to her ravings with something of horror, his ruddy cheeks growing paler.
We are trying to find out about these personalities so we can judge these things in the light of what they did, what they said, and whether these are fulminations and ravings and rantings and nonsense.
He never got real mad where he'd show any ravings of any sort, you know.
These my interpretations of the shloka are like the ravings of a mad man.
I do not remember what ravings I uttered in his house.
He would sit for hours at a time, his finger on Stewart’s pulse; quieting his ravings and forcing back the fever by the might of his own will.
The incoherent ravings became a piteous and conscious cry for water.
He certainly did not know her, and he did not know the padre, and she felt a hesitation in telling him that the only one whose voice or hand quieted the occasional ravings of the American was that of his own wife.
I really thought for a few days of your ravings that we were going to have a nun in the family; and now it's a new girl!
Subsequent to this we see the light vanishing and earnestness giving place to triviality of thought, to the ravings of superstition, to the inanities of ceremonialism and to the laws of social and religious bondage.
Those sweet ravings are well remembered, and can now be trusted as truth.
The absurdities of Rousseau can be detected in the ravings of the ultra Transcendentalists, in the extravagance of Fourierism, in the mock philanthropy of such apostles of light as Eugene Sue and Louis Blanc.
The unhappy ravings of O'Hana flashed to his mind.
Hence they would change the mad nightlyravings to the subdued groans of the punished.
He had wholly forgotten the nurse who had listened to the wild ravingsof O'Hana in her illness, broken sentences bearing so heavily and dove-tailing so nicely into the completed case.
And Lamentations is simply a continuance of the ravings of the same insane pessimist; nothing but dust and sackcloth and ashes, tears and howls, railings and revilings.
It was at once determined that we should each watch six hours at a time by the couch of the sick man, whose ravings were certainly of a nature to be kept secret as far as possible.
Superstition mistook insanity for inspiration and the ravings of maniacs for prophesy, for the wisdom of God.
They have wrestled with rhapsody and prophecy, with visions and dreams, with illusions and delusions, with myths and miracles, with the blunders of ignorance, the ravings of insanity and the ecstasy of hysterics.
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