So what if I am quite a spectacular energumen, at least I'm full of surprises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News] Reference

On the left is a prostrate energumen striking his forehead against the ground, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

Nevertheless, they did not make him out to be an energumen for all that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

His verses I detest, but I love to hear him recite them -- he has the air of an energumen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.] Reference

In the first place, it is my duty to acknowledge that but for your interference yesterday the gigantic energumen by whom I was unexpectedly beset would have slain me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference

A few hours had sufficed to break the spirit of the energumen, who now declared that he recognized the authority of the magistrates and begged forgiveness for having insulted them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Là-bas] Reference

And if a fellow elects to let the whole thing pass him by, some socially conscious energumen is bound to sweat him with a lecture on civic duty, like the citizeness who came at me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference

If my son had not forsaken me, deluded by debasing fanatical dreams, worthy only of an energumen whose dwelling is among tombs, I might have gone on and seen my path broadening to the end of my life; for he was a youth of great promise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romola] Reference

At any rate, in Oxford the young energumen found himself happy and merry beyond words: he worked brilliantly, was a notable figure in the Union debates, argued passionately against every conventional English tradition, and attacked authority, complacence, and fetichism of every kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shandygaff] Reference

I left him dancing and raving like an energumen. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of George Borrow]

Sounds like someone seized by an energumen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

"violent energumen.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference

"But what is an energumen?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference