delirious

• “I am delirious from a hard day's travel, and the thought that I, a Cimmerian born born in battle under the indifferent eyes of Crom, who mocks the Northern tribes as they wage war among themselves, I, who am a creature of rolling hills and mountains, could be your neighbor, here, in this swamp --" Conan paused and took in the withered creature before him, and for a moment his face was solemn.”

  Archive 2009-12-01

• “I want this town to melt in delirious euphoria over a World Championship, and celebrate it every day for a year -- New Orleans style.”

  Archive 2007-10-01

• “His biggest worry was Specialist Moreland, who was delirious from a dangerous head wound.”

  Moreland, James L.

• “Their responses to the examiner or staff are perfunctory and vague, and they may appear to be in an excited delirium, which Kraepelin termed delirious mania.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

• “After a while we shall have a letter, which once upon a time we'd have called delirious -- don't know that we could read such a thing now, for the first time, without incredulous laughter -- which Mr. Proctor permitted to be published in”

  The Book of the Damned

• “Before long a carnival of color began which I can only describe as delirious, intoxicating, a hardly bearable joy, a tender anguish, an indescribable yearning, an unearthly music, rich in love and worship.”

  A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

• “And when I say "delirious," I sometimes mean it literally.”

  Rose red city, half as old as time

• “We have to fight this state of existence where people live as though they are 'prisoned in the bars of a single jail', where our people seem to be 'delirious' from malaria, TB, AIDS and many preventable and curable diseases.”

  Address at the University of The State of Bahia Brazil

• “They made love in the willow grove, questions of honor put aside, promises broken without so much as a look back, and at the end of it Susan discovered there was more than sweetness; there was a kind of delirious clinching of the nerves that began in the part of her that had opened before him like a flower; it began there and then filled her entire body.”

  Wizard and Glass

• “Now she saw the surface of milk and honey, where newly married couples lolled in a reasonable approximation of the kind of delirious happiness she routinely provided for Veleno.”

  Roc and a Hard Place

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