terror-mad

Updated: July 17, 2025

There knelt Domitia Lepida, urging the terror-mad woman not to wait the executioner, since life was over and nothing remained but to lend death the dignity of suicide. But the dishonoured self was empty of courage, and long-drawn weeping choked her useless lamentations.

F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford - Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1: Studies from the Chronicles of Rome

For a second the entire flock stared in dumb paralytic surprise; then following there came a note of terror from eight and twenty throats that rose as one voice, that over the now silent prairie could have been heard for miles. It was the signal for action, for escape, and, terror-mad, they broke into motion. But a flock of great Canada geese cannot, like quail, spring directly a-wing.

Will Lillibridge - Where the Trail Divides