While in another room lay his younger son a victim to delirium tremens, and dying in fearful agony.

He has only just escaped delirium tremens, and will most likely be in bed for a day or two.

Sea-captains often attach an exaggerated sense of peril to small boats; Condé confessed himself a coward in a street-fight; and William the Conqueror is said to have trembled exceedingly (rehementer tremens) during the disturbance which interrupted his coronation.