36 examples of maniacal in sentences

"Mr. Jones," he wailsand his own voicethe comically commonplace name, "Mr. Jones," even in the agony of his terror, the humor of the conjuncture glimmered in the boy's crazed intelligence, and he laughed a wild, maniacal laugh.

That the Count glared at me savagely and crunched his jaws with maniacal energy.

"I am the Wicked Witch of the West!" shouted the woman in a maniacal voice.

And then, resuming his maniacal perambulations, he pointed towards an adjoining room, the folding doors of which were wide open.

It was suspected, however, that he led a mysterious maniacal life, tinged with anxious jealousy, at home, in that flat of the Boulevard de Grenelle which he had so obstinately refused to quit.

And then, too, he no longer knew if he were right or not; his poor maniacal mind was lost.

Such, too, was his maniacal, sordid avarice that he no longer spent a farthing on himself apart from the money which he paid for his breadbread of the commonest kind, which he purchased every four days and ate when it was stale, in order that he might make it last the longer.

He had so often walked to and fro with his short, discreet, maniacal step, hearing, seeing, and surprising everything!

I tell you that has the true heart-stuff in itnow" They roared out a verse of "Auld Lang Syne," with execrable attempts at part-singing, little Dan Lefferts, a dissolute house-painter, contributing a tenor that was simply maniacal.

A fearful transformation was therea scowl so livid and maniacal, that her very senses seemed leaving her with terror.

The pace was too terrific at which Victor's car was thundering through the night-bound countryside, it seemed idle to dream that another could overhaul it, even though driven with as much skill and maniacal recklessness.

In time he became subject to maniacal illusions; so that if he was not actually mad before, he was now considered so.

[behavior suggesting insanity] maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory.

But, above all, what maniacal haste and hurry, as if the fiend were waiting with red-hot pincers to lay hold of the hindermost!

Thus the feebler race, whose corporeal adjustments happened to be accompanied with a maniacal consciousness which imagined itself moving its mover, will have vanished, as all less adapted existences do before the fittesti.e., the existence composed of the most persistent groups of movements and the most capable of incorporating new groups in harmonious relation.

It had that touch of the maniacal in it which freezes the blood.

It embarrassed Joe to realize that this maniacal stranger was him, or her perception of him.

My fainting, I presume, saved my life, for the felon was in that state of maniacal desperation which nothing but a perfect unresistingness could have evaded.

he continued, whilst all the pent-up fury, forcibly kept in check all this while by the advent of the police, now once more found vent in loud vituperation and almost maniacal expressions of rage.

They were hollow, maniacal seas.

With regard to the dose of opium, one grain is generally sufficient, and often too large a one; maniacal persons, and those who have been long accustomed to take it, require three or more grains to have the due effect.

he shouted with maniacal glee; and fiercely crumpling the letter in his hand, as if he held a living foe in his grasp, whilst a flash of fiendish passion broke from the deep caverns of his sunken eyes"at last I have thee on the hip!

he shrieked with maniacal fury; "killed!murdered!and by her!" I gasped for breath, and could hardly articulate"What!

You will find it best to disregard his maniacal shoutings and gesticulations.

Bartley never followed him beyond his own room; he had been goaded into a maniacal impulse, and he returned to his gloomy sullenness.

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