apoplexies

I hope that you can accept our deepest apoplexies.

We Regress the Error : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2008

Either the Lib Dems very cleverly sock puppeting to wind up the Thatcher-lovers to apoplexies, to detract from Ming's uselessness, and to enable them to point out what a nasty party we are at the grassroots...

Ming Fails to Impress 5 Live Listeners 2007

That thence comes then this malady, madness, apoplexies, lethargies, &c. it may not be denied.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Chris is currently having apoplexies over what we've spent...

Keep short fiction alive 2007

For amongst the diseases of the body those are the worst which are accompanied by stupor, as lethargies, headaches, epilepsies, apoplexies, and those fevers which raise inflammation to the pitch of madness, and disturb the brain as in the case of a musical instrument,

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Phrensies, deliriums, vigilation, idiotism, apoplexies, and other disorders of the brain, are all produced by the nerves being thus disarranged and debilitated.

A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves Hugh Smith

But, perhaps, if the matter were truly stated, a great many of the dropsies, apoplexies, and palsies ought to have been placed under that head.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829 Various

This rudeness of mine occasioned a profound silence for some minutes, and they fell into a good-natured discourse of the ill consequences of too much application, and remembered how many apoplexies, gouts, and dropsies had happened amongst the hard students of their acquaintance.

Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925

They have but one notion, which is to play out all the best cards as fast as they can, and then appeal to their partner to score as many tricks as they have -- an inhuman performance, which I have no doubt has cost many apoplexies.

Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839

Mortification! terrible word; how many apoplexies have arisen from its source!

Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838