These modern 'Arabian Nights' are too hectic for quiet folk.

His face was grave, a little drawn and hectic from his drugged activity.

Such a government is neither hectic in its vicissitudes nor inquisitorial in its enactments.

I have often had the fool's hectic of wishing about the unalterable, but with me that useless exercise has turned chiefly on the conception of a different self, and not, as it usually does in literature, on the advantage of having been born in a different age, and more especially in one where life is imagined to have been altogether majestic and graceful.

She looked at the sunken orbits of his eyes and hectic on his cheek, and shuddered.

Oh, Marna!" Time wore on, and Marna grew hectic with anticipation.