Word: franticness
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...employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces, - but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum? For how can one little Tiger, however fierce and frantic he be, make a menagerie all by himself? Can a feather go off in a corner and flock alone by itself? But he is a strong Tiger and very, very fierce, and his claws are sharp, and they make very astonishing cuts in the wood. But perhaps the Tiger...
...turned deathly white. In another moment my hand was at his throat, and we two rolled over upon that quiet hillside in deadly conflict. Merciful Heaven, I was frantic now, - a burning fire of madness in my brain, that is upon...
...very material service to a man who had put out from the bank to the woman's assistance, in getting her ashore. The writer of the above-mentioned article playfully insinuates that the crew merely lay on their oars and amused themselves by watching the woman's frantic struggles in the water, without going to her aid; and he ends up his article by some ill-chosen pleasantry in regard to the sparring at our last winter meetings. If the Gazette desires to allow people to air their ill-breeding through its columns, we have no possible objection...
...tremendous; but, above all, the Musical Member at the head of the table was to be heard singing his composition, at the top of his lungs, to a man at the other end, while he beat time with the carving knife, entirely unconscious of the frantic appeals for meat from the man on his right. At this point the Freshman gets up in his chair and yells...
...there's no need of now concealing that he has a frantic burning...