91 examples of rabid in sentences

What I scratch out is a German quotation, from Lessing, on the bite of rabid animals; but I remember you don't read German.

He's rabid since the President declared war.

" I took the necessary step forward, and faced him, expecting the rabid tongue lashing, which I rather felt I deserved.

It is interesting to note this for our rabid Freudians.

There was a red-covered "Book of Snobs;" "Vanity Fair" with no cover at all; "Scottish Chiefs" in crimson; a brown copy of George Sand's "Teverino;" and next it a green Bailey's "Festus," which I only attacked when mentally rabid, and a little of which went a surprisingly long way; and then a maroon "David Copperfield," whose pages were limp with my kisses.

Had Clarence become suddenly rabid and attacked him.

A disease caused by the bite of a rabid dog or other animal.

overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical; rabid &c (eager) 865. rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary^, boisterous.

fierce, wild, rageful^, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless &c 919. flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.

Two years later, though noted as a rabid "king's man," he joined the Pilgrimage of Grace against his master, and was soon after executed, with Darcy and some other lords.

Surely a man gone rabid, a man gone dancing, foaming, raving mad!

A genuine Cynicone who was so, not in brutality of manners or ostentation of rabid eccentricity, but a Cynic in life and in his inmost principleswas evidently in the eyes of Epictetus one of the loftiest of human beings.

But Franz Anton was so rabid a fiddler that he used to be seen playing his violin in public places, followed by his large family of children, or even sawing away in the open fields, to the neglect of his work and finally the loss of his position.

So that when he sat down, and my turn came, the audience, instead of being convinced, was fairly rabid.

And Mr. Glentworthsurely he was on our side?" "He!why, my dear madam, he was the most rabid of the lot.

I'm afraid I shall be set down by him as a rabid Abolitionist, I got so warm on the subject.

By thee my Ovid wounded lies; By thee my Lesbia's sparrow dies: Thy rabid teeth have half destroy'd The work of love in Biddy Floyd; They rent Belinda's locks away, And spoil'd the Blouzelind of Gay.

He looks neither wild nor rabid, and is a grey-headed man, about fifty years of age, with a dash of the Israelite in his appearance: he may or he may not have Filibustero predilectionsI did not presume to make inquiry on the subject.

The rabid, furious snaps drive the teeth through flesh and bone.

You seem disposed to change your opinion, and listen to the words of this rabid madman!' To whom the king replied, 'On my honor as a gentleman, cousin, he has given me such great and clear reasons, and has represented to me so well the good courage of my men, that I know not what to do.'

And M. de St. Pol accosted me, saying with a laugh, 'Rabid madman, thou wilt be cause of the greatest weal that could happen to the king, or of the greatest woe.'

*** A medical paper states that if a man was bitten by a rabid cow he would probably go mad and start grazing in the nearest meadow.

Then let not Piety be put to Flight, To please the Taste of Glutton-Appetite; But suffer inmate Souls secure to dwell, Lest from their Seats your Parents you expel; With rabid Hunger feed upon your Kind, Or from a Beast dislodge a Brothers Mind.

On the following Wednesday a rabid leader of the disturbers, not a union man, but a man who had never done a day's work in his life, mounted a table on a street corner and addressed the crowd which quickly swelled to a mob.

But it is one of the best-established traditions of stock-gambledom that when an operator has been bitten by a rabid stock he is invariably attracted to it every time afterward that it shows signs of frothing.

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