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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
phrensy .
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Examples
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I say it is granted on all hands (and what happens in dreams, phrensies, and the like, puts it beyond dispute) that it is possible we might be affected with all the ideas we have now, though there were no bodies existing without resembling them.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley 2006
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I say it is granted on all hands and what happens in dreams, phrensies, and the like, puts it beyond dispute that it is possible we might be affected with all the ideas we have now, though there were no bodies existing without resembling them.
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I say it is granted on all hands and what happens in dreams, phrensies, and the like, puts it beyond dispute that it is possible we might be affected with all the ideas we have now, though there were no bodies existing without resembling them.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey — why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness — why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
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Dealt gently with my phrensies, school'd my blood,
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Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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The prophetess of Delphi, and the priestess of Dodona, many are the benefits which in their phrensies (moments of inspiration) they have bestowed upon Greece; but in their hours of self-possession, few or none.
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Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
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I harbour no suspicion of its verity; for marvellous things have been told me, by my brother, of the whimsical phrensies of book-fanciers.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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