Drink to lofty hopes that cool - Visions of a perfect state: Drink we, last, the public fool, Frantic love and frantic hate.英文原著 · 《Letters to Dead Authors》
"We can't bet, for we've nothing to raise the stakes with!"
Monty was breathing hard and his fingers trembled, as though the ague of the swamps was already upon him. He took up his cards one by one, and as he snatched up the last he groaned. Not a pair! "Four cards," he whispered hoarsely. Trent dealt them out, looked at his own hand, and, keeping a pair of queens, took three more cards. He failed to improve, and threw them upon the floor. With frantic eagerness Monty grovelled down to see them - then with a shriek of triumph he threw down a pair of aces. "Mine!" he said.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
It is possible -- just barely possible -- that Waite, still drunk on his solitary dreams, knew what he was doing, and chose to bring his little chapter to an end while the lines were pleasant. At any rate, he rode straight forward, shouting and waving his arms in an insane endeavor to head off that frantic mob. The noise woke the children, and they peered from the window as the pawing and bellowing herd plunged by, trampling the young steers under their feet.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"But instead of going to his guests, Cursy strode up and down the boulevard between the Rue de Richelieu and the Rue du Mont Blanc, indulging in the most fearful imprecations, his unbounded language was most comical to hear. His paroxysm of fury in the street contrasted oddly with his peaceable demeanor in the house. Exercise assisted him to work off his nervous agitation and inward tempest. About two o'clock, on a sudden frantic impulse, he exclaimed:英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
At the personal pronoun, Mrs. Wainwright lum- bered frantically to her feet. " What ? " she shouted. Coleman ?英文原著 · 《Active Service》
In vain are the frantic efforts of the Catholic Church, her lies, falsehoods, calumnies. She stands condemned by the awakened human conscience of having once more repeated the foul crimes of the past.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
He was bruised and frantic... He'd just broken up with another girl...美剧 · 《Sex and the city》
A frantic woman called, saying that three men were threatening her, and she said they left but she was afraid they were gonna come back.美剧 · 《Shameless》
And it makes sense to charge on ahead and not look back, but there is a frantic quality to all of this, not just opening New York but then L.A.?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》