I long for the days of phrenetic brass sections and theremins and moogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Shuttle lift-off highlights] Reference

Then her father jerked in a phrenetic dance, until he stripped the suit and ran.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Feral Queen] Reference

This was very new; it was also very strange what a fascination he found in his phrenetic exercises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

Cases have been known of a native sentinel having been left at his post for a little over that regulation time, and to have become phrenetic, under the impression that the two hours had long since expired, and that he had been forgotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Swift thro the wild wood paths phrenetic springs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Columbiad] Reference

It was a gymnastic exercise rather than a dance, the delirium of an acrobat, a phrenetic movement like the war dances of African tribes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan] Reference

And while the night-life of the rich grew more and more phrenetic, retired barristers and ex-generals could have been found stone-breaking beside the Danube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mises Dailies] Reference

Weakly at first he fought off his captor; then, as fear overwhelmed him, he became possessed of a phrenetic energy and struggled with the strength of two men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Winds of Chance] Reference

Then the engine-driver would go on towards the sound of the guns till you wondered, made uneasy by the signs without, whether he was phrenetic and intended to run the enemy down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting for Daylight] Reference

Therefore, as soon as the symptoms discover themselves, a tarantula doctor is sent for, who, after viewing carefully the condition of the person, first tries one tune and then another, until he is so fortunate as to hit the phrenetic turn of the patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published] Reference

But there has been a superstition of very different fibre, of more intense and practical validity, the deformed child of faith, peopling the midnight of the mind with fearful shapes and phrenetic suggestions, a monstrous brood of its own begetting, and making even good men ferocious in imagined self-defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

Let us proclaim it to the world that we recognize that the measures to liberate the Third Estate from the slavery in which for centuries it has groaned find only obstacles in those orders whose phrenetic egotism sees in the tears and suffering of the unfortunate an odious tribute which they would pass on to their generations still unborn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scaramouche] Reference

… and the phrenetic schedule that seems to characters the last weekend in April through Memorial Day around here will ease.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedStateEclectic] Reference

Not so with the phrenetic horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight-Car 1898] Reference

What < i > oestrum, what phrenetic mood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudibras] Reference

Hence we have fantom phantom, fantasy/phantasy, fantastic/phantastic, fantast/phantast, frenzy I phremy, frenetic/phrenetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference