Raving

Examples

• When I returned to the bedside of the young woman, I found her raving in precisely the same order of continuity. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The latter had been raving against America, as traitorous, rebellious, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The instinctive c raving for power, the will to dominate, of which Nietzsche was the lyricist, was in these men subdued to patience, industry, and philanthropy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I left him raving. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Dobbin was not a little affected by the sight of this once kind old friend, crazed almost with misfortune and raving with senile anger. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This produced a settled gloom, which in time developed a morbid insanity, and finally terminated in raving madness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The Duke had dropped the last attempt at self-command, and was pacing the room with a convulsed face and with his clenched hands raving in the air. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Julia was raving about Sir Henry Mildmay, by whom she professed to be pregnant. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Fancy us holding him tight down in the carriage, and he raving between usfit to drive everybody delirious. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The undertaker offered no reply to this raving; but producing a tape from his pocket, knelt down for a moment by the side of the body. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Do you truly expect that you will be seized with hydrophobia, and die raving mad? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In short, Cotton was raving mad for Julia, and Julia was wild for Cotton--_le moyen de les séparer? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Here I have lain, Mr. Holmes, for over nine weeks, unconscious, and raving with brain-fever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is said, that a fair lady once sat by the Apollo, whom she could not warm, till she went raving mad, and in that state died. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I treated them as the ravings of a maniac. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At first his mother treated his theories as the wild ravings of inexperience. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There is a wild interest in his ravings. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Hardly less disturbed than the tempestuous world of waters was the assembly of human beings, that from the cliff fearfully watched its ravings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I well knew that if any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Thou canst not fly, said the Preceptor; thy ravings have excited suspicion, and thou wilt not be permitted to leave the Preceptory. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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