How To Use Delirious In A Sentence
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A whirling flash of sapphire suddenly rotated --- in a delirious foxtrot --- with Doc's own dizzy nimbus of gilded amber.
BEHINDLINGS
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Anyone who has seen a revue of their sketches in Germany knows how deliriously funny their work can be.
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If we feel uncomfortable, achy, or even delirious during the course of a fever, these sensations are due to the toxicity that the fever is working to rid us of.
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Vivid hallucinations and delirious illusions may also occur.
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I became delirious, and quitting that staircase, which methought it was impossible for me to reascend, I sprung forth into the void with an execration.
The Paris Sketch Book
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I want this town to melt in delirious euphoria over a World Championship, and celebrate it every day for a year -- New Orleans style.
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Tell your doctor if you had a seizure or got delirious when you tried to stop drinking before.
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The dogs delirious with freedom romped and chased tight figure eights in water chest deep on little corgi legs.
A Day At The Beach
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he was talking deliriously
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THE noise was deafening as a delirious Manchester crowd rose to applaud a stunning home win.
The Sun
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My mind, firing on all cylinders, entertained these notions and more, delirious as I was with cabin fever, lack of social interaction, and those strange pointy champignons I had consumed earlier.
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The infectious glam stomp of the closer Retreat explodes in delirious joy, a fitting high note on which to end.
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Low doses of neuroleptics may be helpful in managing the agitation of a delirious patient temporarily.
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Thus, the two sides to Neptune are rapture or despair, delirious happiness versus pain and confusion.
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If left untreated, the patient may be highly agitated, develop insomnia, become delirious or go into a coma.
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The Rat Pack fanbase loves Some Came Running, from the James Jones potboiler, not just for its Sinatra-Dino-MacLaine dream cast, but for its delirious expressionism, especially in the hallucinatory final fairground sequence.
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He was clearly frightened, perhaps delirious and possibly even unaware of what was happening to him.
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Before long a carnival of color began which I can only describe as delirious, intoxicating, a hardly bearable joy, a tender anguish, an indescribable yearning, an unearthly music, rich in love and worship.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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A delirious convention was taking place, a deranged banquet of the fathoms.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Sing, delirious beauty honey sweet your luscious cries.
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Attention is impaired, and a delirious person is difficult to engage in conversation and easily distracted by irrelevant stimuli.
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What a sad opinion one forms of men, what bitterness grips one's heart when one sees such delirious asininity on display.
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The goals sparked delirious celebrations from 30,000 England fans packing the stadium.
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His comments to the opposition are more like the delirious rantings of a homicidal maniac.
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A whirling flash of sapphire suddenly rotated --- in a delirious foxtrot --- with Doc's own dizzy nimbus of gilded amber.
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This extraordinary film is celluloid incendiarism, rabble-rousing cinema with a delirious, delicious edge of black comedy which I estimate to be about 90-95% intentional.
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But let's be honest, when you spend 16 hours a day in a delirious state of prandial deprivation, your cravings rival those of a pregnant woman.
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The patient affected with phrenitis, having taken to bed on the first day, vomited largely of verdigris-green and thin matters; fever, accompanied with rigors, copious and continued sweats all over; heaviness of the head and neck, with pain; urine thin, substances floating in the urine small, scattered, did not subside; had copious dejections from the bowels; very delirious; no sleep.
Of The Epidemics
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The delirious aspect of these imaginings is caused by the fasting he undergoes in the hope of avoiding conscription.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The legendary frontiersman is seldom sober, and by the time of the siege he is too sick and delirious with typhoid to hold his eponymous knife.
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A whirling flash of sapphire suddenly rotated --- in a delirious foxtrot --- with Doc's own dizzy nimbus of gilded amber.
BEHINDLINGS
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She had lived in the city too long, Emma thought, and open windows and wild, chirping night songs had made her delirious.
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On this basis there develop conditions of pseudologia-phantastica, systematized delusional formations of all sorts, delirious psychoses, etc.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
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Her smiles as we shyly greeted each other stunned me into delirious, weak-kneed awe.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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THE noise was deafening as a delirious Manchester crowd rose to applaud a stunning home win.
The Sun
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And when I say "delirious," I sometimes mean it literally.
Rose red city, half as old as time
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In fact, when I am near him I cannot focus at all, so deliriously in love am I. And this is not a passing fancy.
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Foxy Shazam's vampy, glammy rhapsody is a delirious, nearly hyperventilating affair.
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When delirious crowds tore down the Berlin Wall in 1989 many hallucinated that a millennium of borderless freedom was at hand.
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He suffered an attack of malaria and was delirious.
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He was feeling the most delirious thrill of joy, mixed with an agony of anticipation, and spiked with that most potent spice: fear.
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After a while we shall have a letter, which once upon a time we'd have called delirious -- don't know that we could read such a thing now, for the first time, without incredulous laughter -- which Mr. Proctor permitted to be published in
The Book of the Damned
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But Roger felt far otherwise; and this sudden qualm of conscience once quelled (I will say there seemed much of palliation in the matter), a kind of inebriate feeling of delight filled his mind, and Steady Acton plodded on to the meadow yonder, half a mile a-head, in a species of delirious complacency.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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The crowd went delirious and pointed with glee as the windscreen wiper machines bumped repeatedly into his contorted form and grew all the more confused.
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Frankenstein lapsed into a delirious fever for several months, ranting and raving about killing the monster.
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Vivid hallucinations and delirious illusions may also occur.
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On Sunday evening as the mist fell on Hyde Park, delirious supporters gave vent to their emotions as they cheered the new kings of Roscommon football.
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The figures ache with yearning yet wear expressions of thrilled surrender and delirious abandon.
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Felt almost delirious from the lack of sleep - but pleasantly so.
The Sun
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She had a high temperature and was delirious.
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It's also one of the most deliriously iconic gay porn movies ever made, even though I'm not much of an afficionado of the genre (would rather do it than watch it, so to speak).
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her answer made him deliriously happy
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The crowds were delirious with joy.
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It was then she come out delirious about not being the pampered toy of any male -- _male_, mind you!
Somewhere in Red Gap
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From that jumping-off point, the plot hits hairpin turns, sudden cliff drops and delirious loops of logic and technology.
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We are aswirl in a delirious dance of motion, emotion, an exhilarating carnival ride of heady smells and riotous color.
Donna Henes: Spring Fever!
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The story is a delirious, chaotic, often impenetrable allegory of tribalism in an industrial dystopia.
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It was as if the beamer were a vacuum, suck-ing up ever more delirious dancers from the depths below.
Mission to Moulokin
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The idea was that the deliriously loved-up men would unable to resist one another, but would be suffused with regret once the potion wore off.
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Sometimes she would have raging temperatures where she would become delirious, speaking nonsense, and not being fully aware of what was going on.
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In unrelenting, agitated pain, he would wake in the night, delirious, frantic, covered in perspiration.
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For two weeks he was in a delirious condition, then began to recover.
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The ball shaved the wrong side of the post and sent the Town supporters delirious.
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And he was left fuming by City's delirious celebrations at the final whistle.
The Sun
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The crowd is delirious then a great hush - who will take it?
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a crowd of delirious baseball fans
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Half the crowd erupted into delirious cheering and celebrating; the other half sitting silently in the stands.
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At discharge, the patient became acutely hypotensive and delirious.
Medpundit
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A seething proliferation of superimposed images and patterns swirl around like Catherine wheels, and the result is delirious retinal overload.
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The first-course platter of big, peppered tails-on shrimp and seared scallops, all swamped in a delirious garlic-butter sauce, is outrageously good.
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Newton's performance here is nothing short of deliciously delirious.
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One trick is called cryptomnesia, or hidden memory.3 A delirious person may suddenly speak in a strange language he apparently never learned.
Experiencing the Next World Now
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The ecstatic Cobblers boss savoured the moment as his side sang and danced in front of thousands of delirious fans at the end.
The Sun
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It requires delirious, wild optimism to believe madness on every continent will keep us safe indefinitely.
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Maybe he was ill - delirious with some sort of tropical disease?
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The infectious glam stomp of the closer Retreat explodes in delirious joy, a fitting high note on which to end.
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Their responses to the examiner or staff are perfunctory and vague, and they may appear to be in an excited delirium, which Kraepelin termed delirious mania.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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And it was then, in that delirious, half-starved, semi-conscious state that she came up with a plan.
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Specifically, it is impossible to summon medical attention when one is so delirious that one is simultaneously enjoying a conversation with one 's former maths teacher.
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Yahoos trying it, Delicious does it the best, and there are wannabees in furl, wists, delirious, and many others.
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She had begun by "humoring" the delirious man; but now she found his delirium taking a course which was excessively embarrassing.
The American Baron
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I got over my pain (which was epic) and am now deliriously happy.
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When Wray slathers one of the large paintings in yellow chartreuse, the effect is jarring and delirious.
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The thought made me swoon with disbelief, so after eight songs had passed, I wasn't sure if it was the twelve cups of punch or the dance that was making me delirious.
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You know you're watching a bad zombie film when the zombies are peripheral to the sexy outfits, time-and-space-defying stunts, and deliriously obnoxious soundtrack.
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He turned delirious, but in one moment of lucidity he told them, according to Cabeza de Vaca, Each man should do what he thought best to save his own life.
Dream State
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The surgeon then advised him, if he had any worldly affairs to settle, that he would do it as soon as possible; for, though he hoped he might recover, yet he thought himself obliged to acquaint him he was in great danger; and if the malign concoction of his humours should cause a suscitation of his fever, he might soon grow delirious and incapable to make his will.
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The 1963 cult film classic introduced a cast of campy and erotic voluptuaries, some of them drag queens, in a series of beautiful and delirious tableaus.
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When delirious crowds tore down the Berlin Wall in 1989 many hallucinated that a millennium of borderless freedom was at hand.
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His biggest worry was Specialist Moreland, who was delirious from a dangerous head wound.
Moreland, James L.
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I'm so flattered and pleased and delirious and overjoyed that my work has been received so positively by you all.
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Not alone in the great junctures of the tragedy -- the encounters with the ghost, the parting with Ophelia, the climax of the play-scene, the slaughter of poor old Polonius in delirious mistake for the king, and the avouchment to Laertes in the graveyard -- was he brilliant and impetuous; but in almost everything that quality of temperament showed itself, and here, of course, it was in excess.
Shadows of the Stage
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The crowning touch was added to this delirious moment of festival by the simply scandalous distribution of golden coin, _golden_ mind you, which attendants clothed in every colour of an Egyptian sunset, and mounted upon diminutive, but pure bred donkeys, threw right and left with no stinting hand, to the distribution of which largesse responded shrill laughter, and still shriller cries, and thwack of stick on dark brown pate and cries of pain upon the meeting of youthful ivories in the aged ankle or wrist.
Desert Love
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And 180 km after starting we hit the finish line; elated, delirious, lots of emotion and not too much pain thankfully.
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It delivered me to this unknown rock, where trees meet on hill-tops to tangle dark branches under fog shot with dankness and blight, and I am always welcome because I am the only one — and the funny birds who tell no jokes, and the giant bile-squirting flowers, and the delirious prancing monkeys, and I have nothing in particular to say, and I say it again and again
Sunk
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The delirious crowd, leapt to its feet and cheered.
The Sun
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He's so delirious he doesn't know where he is.
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Leonoa had survived by a blade-thin chance, and even so, she lay four days in a stupor, waking for an evening before lapsing into bone fever, its delirious contortions permanently thwarting her spine's straightness, lengthening one arm and legs, and throwing the plates of her skull awry, gnarling her like a knotgrass doll.
Cat Rambo
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This extraordinary film is celluloid incendiarism, rabble-rousing cinema with a delirious, delicious edge of black comedy which I estimate to be about 90-95% intentional.
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Not only is Gordon's business failing, but he and his wife have a baby girl who won't stop crying - so he's delirious from sleep deprivation and guilt.
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City fans were delirious with delight at the prospect of glory days returning.
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I tried to rub him down with a wet towel, but he was delirious and hardly knew me.
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As a matter of fact, the doctor, when he came the next day, was in a towering rage with Mrs. Van Shaw over what he called her insane yielding to the request of a delirious patient.
The High Calling
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Raine covered her ears at the shrill sound, ducking away from the delirious crowd as best as she could.
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Most frequently pain of body is the cause of convulsion, which is often however exchanged for madness; and a painful delirious idea is most frequently the cause of madness originally, but sometimes of convulsion.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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It delivered me to this unknown rock, where trees meet on hill-tops to tangle dark branches under fog shot with dankness and blight, and I am always welcome because I am the only one — and the funny birds who tell no jokes, and the giant bile-squirting flowers, and the delirious prancing monkeys, and I have nothing in particular to say, and I say it again and again
Sunk
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To bag an edgy first win of the season would have sent the fans home delirious.
The Sun
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It must have been traumatic – the demon claims to have taken the tutti out of frutti, after all – but the song remains uptempo and Hawkins 'scatting is resolutely delirious.
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If you don't know the difference between government actions beating the flu and the school holidays starting then you seem to be in a delirious flu fever as the governments actions so far have been slow, ham fisted and show a shocking disregard for public health.
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Proper enough, jorn thought deliriously, since the armorer was the only one in the party who was not an officer.
And all the Stars a Stage
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For the delirious fans, plus one diminutive golfer, it provided the perfect finish to a perfect day.
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Operating a pitch of delirious precision, the movie is a rich, cartoonish dream: non-stop Op art, and a triumph of virtual virtuosity.
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If, as the run continues, the company unleashes the wild rage of the underdog, it might well hit delirious, instead of merely amusing, heights.
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The band was cheered to the echo by a delirious crowd, partly because this was such a rare treat.
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I felt almost delirious with disclosure.
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David O'Neill, a consultant physician, said that Mr Robinson had been in an agitated and delirious state.
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He became delirious and couldn't recognize people.
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An hour later a delirious and disbelieving Beryl rang again.
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This is a lesser achievement than the strange, brilliant, delirious works of Gogol's prime; but it is, nevertheless, colored throughout by the inspired exorbitances of his genius.
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While the penalty prompted singing and cheering from the crowd, the drop kick produced thunderous applause and brought a delirious crowd to their feet.
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Just look at the delirious jubilance in York on Monday night after England scraped a 1-0 win over a woeful Germany.
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If by this point you are not already delirious, fear not, even more jolly japes and lunacy are to follow.
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And all the time, deliriously happy, talking in the gentlest and most delicate terms that might not offend her sensitive ears, I was cudgelling my brains in an effort to divine what I was expected to do.
Chapter 18
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Theirs is an artistic life resplendent with red and blue devil masks with delirious eyes and piercing horns alongside men on horseback, two-tailed mermaids, and maidens in flowered dresses.
Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
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It was a sentiment shared by tens of thousands more delirious fans in pubs all across Bournemouth.
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Alphabetical" isn't as consistently delirious as the band's 2000 debut, "United," and the boys have swapped power chords for the bounciest disco on either side of the Atlantic.
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The infectious glam stomp of the closer Retreat explodes in delirious joy, a fitting high note on which to end.
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Each boat is over l00 ft long, with arched snake-like prows, vividly decorated; crews of over 100 men row in perfect unison to age-old chants, cheered on by delirious crowds, all part of an unforgettable drama.
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The eve was upon them, as a brilliant sunset became a glorious moonrise, transforming the lethargic day into a delirious nocturne.
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Finally, we see Mike and pal Bruce Alder deliriously duetting on a pair of his classic songs.
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So, delirious, I drifted in and out of a very disturbed sleep and woke this morning at 9: 00-still with that immense headache.
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She had been delirious with excitement about the whole thing, from the moment they had been invited along.
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Not surprisingly, the most rapturously received bowlful on the menu is a deliriously seductive ragout of onions, leeks, scallions, garlic, cherry peppers, and olive oil.
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He is delirious in an artificial, merciful semi-stupor, which is saving him the untold sufferings of morphine denial.
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I am delirious from a hard day's travel, and the thought that I, a Cimmerian born born in battle under the indifferent eyes of Crom, who mocks the Northern tribes as they wage war among themselves, I, who am a creature of rolling hills and mountains, could be your neighbor, here, in this swamp --" Conan paused and took in the withered creature before him, and for a moment his face was solemn.
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His vision was dimming as the rock squeezed harder, his mind was almost delirious with the pain.
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She triumphed before 58,845 delirious fans, every one of them cognisant of the scale of her accomplishment.
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I am going delirious from lack of sleep, and I am extremely irritable.
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Either he wanted to make me delirious with jealousy over her vile decadence or simply get my certified opinion concerning her degree of lunacy.
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No reasonable settlement is possible in the mood engendered by war because war inflames passions and makes men delirious.
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If by this point you are not already delirious, fear not, even more jolly japes and lunacy are to follow.
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In a span of about ten seconds, Jane went from shocked, to deliriously happy to devastated.
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Unfortunately, the drums do present a problem on ‘Delirious’, a boxy, somewhat shrill piece that utilizes spare, dissonant guitar lines.
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They do not trust the sight of their parents rebelling, of grown men dancing deliriously in the Square.
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Anywhere you go in Maryland, you can have a delectable meal of a just-caught fish, or perhaps some freshly shucked oysters, or the state's famous blue crabs, prepared in a multitude of delirious ways.
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After all, not wearing any clothes at all is fairly hazardous, especially if the sun is making you a little delirious.
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The results are a delirious jumpcut odyssey where fragments of styles collide and splinter apart; ambient drones, barrelhouse piano, funk, jazz, even a snatch of ‘Roll Out the Barrel’ played on an accordion.
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On the unit, he was agitated and delirious, undressing himself for several days.
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The impact of the news upon Stephen, semi-delirious in the school infirmary, is registered in the
James Joyce
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The impotence of will and rationality to deal with this mania is recognized in the common terms madly, wildly, deliriously, head-over-heels in love, since it would be oxymoronic to claim to be gently, reliably or sensibly in love.
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