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Delirious in sentence

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Mrs. Thatcher was very ill, and a great part of the time delirious.
I was reduced very low indeed, and was often delirious and light-headed; but nothing lay so near me as the fear that, when I was light-headed, I should say something or other to his prejudice.
In the life of terror that he led, his mind had grown delirious, ascending to the ecstasy of genius.
Mr. Winkle did leave the box, and rushed with delirious haste to the George and Vulture, where he was discovered some hours after, by the waiter, groaning in a hollow and dismal manner, with his head buried beneath the sofa cushions.
I thought that he was delirious.
A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become delirious.
"He is getting delirious again," said Kate, under her breath.
Then, through the grating to which she had drawn near, Milady saw the young man make a sign with delirious fervor, and depart in an apparent transport of joy.
He stood like a man stupefied, but the stupefaction soon gave way to delirious rapture.
WATER DISCOVEREDFor a whole hour I was trying to work out in my delirious brain the reasons which might have influenced this seemingly tranquil huntsman.
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.
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. Mortimer.
Herbert was somewhat delirious, but the fever did not reappear in the night, and did not return either during the following day.
She was afraid of giving way to these delirious thoughts.
All day she was feverish, delirious, and unconscious.
'I am not delirious...Please arrange so that no one shall say that I shot myself on purpose.''But no one does say so.
Miss Temple was not to be seen: I knew afterwards that she had been called to a delirious patient in the fever-room.
She continued either delirious or lethargic; and the doctor forbade everything which could painfully excite her.
In a state between sleeping and waking, you noticed her entrance and her actions; but feverish, almost delirious as you were, you ascribed to her a goblin appearance different from her own: the long dishevelled hair, the swelled black face, the exaggerated stature, were figments of imagination; results of nightmare: the spiteful tearing of the veil was real: and it is like her.
I was weeping wildly as I walked along my solitary way: fast, fast I went like one delirious.
Meantime, let me ask myself one question--Which is better?--To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort--no struggle;--but to have sunk down in the silken snare; fallen asleep on the flowers covering it; wakened in a southern clime, amongst the luxuries of a pleasure villa: to have been now living in France, Mr. Rochester's mistress; delirious with his love half my time--for he would--oh, yes, he would have loved me well for a while.
Every night his delirious imagination represented la Esmeralda to him in all the attitudes which had caused his blood to boil most.
Meanwhile the hymn ceased, and above the assembly, in a niche formed by the removal of an immense stone, appeared Crispus, the acquaintance of Vinicius, with a face as it were half delirious, pale, stern, and fanatical.
Armand was flushed and delirious; he stammered out disconnected words, in which only the name of Marguerite could be distinctly heard.
All these words were said in such a strained voice, they seemed to hide so persistent and so sorrowful a thought, that I trembled every moment lest Marguerite should become delirious.
What remains of my poor existence is shared between being delirious and coughing.
She is almost always delirious; but delirious or lucid, it is always your name that she pronounces, when she can speak a word.
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