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Example sentences for "delirious"

Lexicographically close words:
delinquencies; delinquency; delinquent; delinquents; deliquescent; deliriously; delirium; deliriums; delite; delited
  1. Six bulls were slaughtered at once, and distributed to the men according to their companies, who became nearly delirious with happiness.

  2. They probably stumbled across our sick men, and the ease with which a delirious and unarmed person fell a sacrifice to their spears would inspire them with a desire to try again.

  3. Seated on the floor of his cell, he rapidly fell into a state of semi-stupor as these sombre imaginings coursed through his brain, sometimes slowly and with saddest procession, at other times with almost delirious haste.

  4. The evidence being conclusive that he was an affectionate father and kindly gentleman, the notion that he was capable of any such atrocity can have been nothing more than one of the sick boy's delirious fancies.

  5. A reasonable view of these facts is that during his delirious sickness the patient expressed a strong desire to see Dr.

  6. Lind, may have been mere fancies of the delirious brain.

  7. Even when she denied her love for him, assured herself it was impossible she could care for so shameful a villain, even then it was a sweet torture to allow herself the luxury of recalling his broken delirious phrases.

  8. When you were delirious you sometimes begged some one you called Ned not to break his mother's heart.

  9. When simple nervous excitement had for two days alternated with the already mentioned intervals of delirious slumber, a dull, aching sensation began manifesting itself between his shoulders and in the region of the loins.

  10. Delirious attacks became more frequent, and her thin, languid voice became once more rough and hoarse.

  11. And there was to be no delirious enthusiasm --which they would regret when they woke up next morning.

  12. Our delirious fancies are like our dreams, and have very little connection with the sorrows or joys which make up the sum of our lives.

  13. Talbot, the splitter of metaphysical straws and chopper of logic, talking of building hopes on shadows, with a lover's delirious stupidity.

  14. Josephine was at times almost delirious in apprehension of the awful calamity which threatened her.

  15. A foolish vow exacted by a delirious and dying woman had become the important thing in Lynn Thayer's life, the keeping of it a sacred duty.

  16. She found her mother delirious and very weak.

  17. Poor people often do so; just as Ugolino dreamt of imperial feasts, and Bruce, in his delirious thirst on the Sahara, could not banish from his mind the cool fountains of Shiraz, and the luxurious waters of old Nile.

  18. Numerical imagination in the sciences does not take on these delirious forms; it has the advantage of resting on an objective basis: it is the substitute of an unrepresentable reality.

  19. In spite of this parallel the distinguishing criterion between the two is very vague, because from the sane to the delirious idea the transitions are very numerous.

  20. The youth and the dotard have alike succeeded in passing out of themselves, and their very souls will not return to the body until the delirious spell has ceased to act.

  21. My wife has been seized with a violent fever; she is quite delirious now, and that is why I told the porter to let no one come up.

  22. I am afraid he is delirious again; I will prepare a draught, which will give him a little rest and sleep.

  23. But the shock of the night's adventures had shattered his nerves, and before morning he lay delirious in a high fever, under the care of Dr.

  24. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

  25. He himself had placed that weapon in their hands when he took her to the Sawtooth delirious and told of wilder words and actions.

  26. Delirious young women of the silk-stocking class did not arrive at the Sawtooth every morning, and it was rumored already amongst the men that she was some looker, which naturally whetted their interest in her.

  27. Not of the howling dervishes of song, Who craze the brain with their delirious dance, Art thou, O sweet historian of the heart!

  28. Urquiza was received by the inhabitants of Buenos Aires with delirious joy as the deliverer of the Republic.

  29. The inhabitants kneeled as the picture passed, and when it had been placed in the cathedral, salvos of artillery sounded, and the people shouted in delirious joy.

  30. There was a slight, fitful scream, and I heard the delirious fellow rushing towards her; and feeling her peril, I jumped to the sliding doors, pushed them apart just as the drunken wretch had wrapped his arms about the girl.

  31. I was, I suppose, by this time, a little delirious with my adventure.

  32. At the threat of every shrapnel I bent my head and shrugged my shoulders, at every cry of the wounded men--one man was delirious and sang a little song--a shudder trembled all down my body.

  33. For five days longer Ethel lingered in the burning fever, sometimes conscious for a minute or two, but for the most part delirious or drowsy all the time.

  34. The inebriety produced by alcoholic preparations, moreover, is attended with a delirious state, furious and uncontrollable, or followed by congestion and torpor.

  35. For eleven days she passed from one delirious attack to another, and as many times she was bled.

  36. And we know, too, the outburst of almost delirious delight that swept from end to end of England at the virtual acquittal of the persecuted Caroline.

  37. I'm delirious myself, Jim, fur it's my wedding-night.

  38. Before Vesta could turn from the window this singular object had darted up the dark stairs of the old storehouse and thrown herself on the delirious man's bed: "Uncle, Uncle Meshach!

  39. In the rest between the attacks of fever and chill, he wants calomel and Peruvian bark, and if these delirious spells go on, he may want both bleeding and opium.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delirious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; ablaze; afire; amok; ardent; babbling; bellowing; berserk; breathless; burning; cordial; delirious; demented; demoniacal; distracted; distraught; dizzy; drunk; ecstatic; enraptured; enthusiastic; excited; exuberant; fanatical; febrile; feral; ferocious; fervent; fervid; feverish; fierce; fiery; flaming; flushed; frantic; frenzied; furious; giddy; glowing; haggard; hearty; heated; hectic; hot; howling; hysterical; impassioned; incoherent; infatuated; inflamed; insane; intense; intoxicated; keen; lively; mad; maniac; maniacal; off; orgiastic; overzealous; passionate; perfervid; possessed; rabid; raging; rambling; ranting; raving; ravished; roaring; steaming; steamy; storming; transported; uncontrollable; unrestrained; vehement; vigorous; violent; wandering; warm; wild; zealous