Among the rest she was seized with what we men call a cacoethes of the needle: "a raging desire" for work.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Lies] Reference

Boredom, a cluttered mind, and a terminal case of cacoethes scribendi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tracking Route 128….D.C. Churbuck Reports] Reference

Trimalchionian episode, and the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes emendandi.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Satyricon] Reference

The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes emendandi.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit of the times, and write up to it too, if that cacoethes be upon us, or else we are nought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barchester Towers] Reference

Juvenal wrote that an incurable itch for scribbling cacoethes scribendi takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tracking Route 128….D.C. Churbuck Reports] Reference

Shall I this cacoethes of my brain Unpurged, in suffering silence still sustain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hypocrisy. A satire, in three books. Book the first] Reference

This cacoethes scribendi is the pest of every local curiosity or public watering-place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers]

If you possess a concern of your own, then you staleness undergo you hit the most prized cacoethes with you.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

Lastly, inveterate bloggers might like to think about "cacoethes scribendi", a mania for writing or getting things into print.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephems of BLB] Reference

And this result of her contacts with Courtier, this 'cacoethes volandi', and feeling of clipped wings, hurt her -- as being forbidden hurts a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patrician] Reference

It was during this session, "he was in the vein," and was seized with the cacoethes loquendi, during which he occupied so disproportionate a term of the session.    From Wordnik.com.  [A biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke] Reference

But in his old age he had fallen a prey to the cacoethes scribendi; he insisted upon having his say about everything, yet his stock of ideas had long since run out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller]

Heaven knows! we have more authors now than ever: if a father writes, the son is straightway attacked with the cacoethes scribendi, and thinks to become — a greater man than his father! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel] Reference

There are many respectable men here who, though a little touched, as is only natural after all, by a little cacoethes of self-interest, yet, never suffer it to interfere with the steadiness and propriety of their conduct, or the love of peace and good will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference

I have no letters of yours, or Mr. Harte’s to acknowledge; so that this letter is the effect of that scribendi cacoethes, which my fears, my hopes, and my doubts, concerning you give me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Scribendi cacoethes! odious passion!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lake of Geneva] Reference

Tenet insanabile multo scribendi cacoethes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disaster?] Reference

The cacoethes accrescendi became epidemic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference

Note: Related to cacoethes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double-Tongued Dictionary] Reference

(cacoethes scribendi) Tj.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel] Reference

“cacoethes scribendi.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life as an Author]

cacoethes. co.uk.    From Wordnik.com.  [dzone.com: latest front page] Reference