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  • That DJ Phrenzy mix is fantastic, thanks for playing it …

    Show 32: Beach Clash Mash Bash! 2005

  • But if, despite such a generous and humane offer, there still remained those who were caught in "the Phrenzy of Hostilitiy...the Messengers of Justice and of Wrath await them in the Field, and Devastation, Famine, and every concomitant Horror...will bar the Way."

    Gentleman Johnny 2004

  • But if, despite such a generous and humane offer, there still remained those who were caught in "the Phrenzy of Hostilitiy...the Messengers of Justice and of Wrath await them in the Field, and Devastation, Famine, and every concomitant Horror...will bar the Way."

    Lance Mannion: 2004

  • Poor "Phrenzy!" round she spun in the giddy vortex; nearer and nearer she approached the verge -- her struggles were unavailing -- over she went, and was of course never heard of afterward.

    Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

  • To my surprise and delight, only one was absent; this was poor "Phrenzy."

    Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

  • Phrenzy, are translated in honour of some modern Beauty; and

    Spectator, April 4, 1711 1711

  • Warrior, they do not observe, that to turn all the Reading of the best and wisest Writings into Rhapsodies of Love, is a Phrenzy no less diverting than that of the aforesaid accomplish'd

    Spectator, April 4, 1711 1711

  • The Fever might have marched before her, Pain might have stood at her right Hand, Phrenzy on her Left, and Death in her Rear.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • Writings into Rhapsodies of Love, is a Phrenzy no less diverting than that of the aforesaid accomplish'd _Spaniard_.

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • The Thoughts of the ancient Poets on this agreeable Phrenzy, are translated in honour of some modern

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

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