Overwrought

Usage examples of frantic.

The cloak had not put out the fire entirely, though, and quenching the flames that sprang up here and there had entailed a great deal of excitement and rushing about, in the course of which Orrie McCallum was misplaced, toddled off, and fell into the groundhog kiln, where he was foundmany frantic minutes laterby Rollo.

Bellis could imagine their frantic work gauging aetherial currents, stoking and conjuring.

Her dog, a brindle-colored Lhasa apso, began a frantic search for something, flinging sand in all directions.

Whenever tetracycline appears in the neighborhood, a Bacteroides transposon goes into overdrive, manufacturing R-plasmids at a frantic rate and then passing them to other bacteria in an orgy of sexual encounters a hundred times more frequent than normal.

With a twinge of sympathy he wondered what ghem-Colonel Benin was doing right now, and if Cetagandan security went as frantic behind the scenes as Barrayaran security did at any ceremony involving Emperor Gregor.

The frantic brownette uttered a choking cry and meekly lowered her arms to her sides.

I am thundering across brown plains, the entire herd of frantic, brown buffalos are at my rear.

Two months ago, when the frantic urgency which governed Aberdale while the cabins were going up and the fields were being levelled had abated, he had taught her how to ride.

Britannia had been conquered by foot-slogging legionaries, heavy infantry that crushed every attack the frantic Celts could throw at them.

He ducked beneath the colonnade of the Basilica Porcia, where frantic merchants were trying to disassemble their stalls, and worked his way into the Clivus Argentarius.

They were invisible, clots of air itself, Cutter realised, thrown down from the fight above, the torn-off meat of an air elemental discarded by an implacable air golem, the hands of a golem bitten through by a frantic luftgeist.

Sulu dashed frantic looks in all directions, expecting Coan to appear like an avenging angel and shrivel him with a glance.

The frantic gesticulations they surprised now and then, the headlong pace after nightfall that swept him upon them round quiet corners, the inhuman bludgeoning of all tentative advances of curiosity, the taste for twilight that led to the closing of doors, the pulling down of blinds, the extinction of candles and lamps--who could agree with such goings on?

In five minutes the dull noise of the curbstone market in Broad Street had leapt to a high note of frantic interrogation.

Frantic, Danaus pushed and shouted at her, slipped his helmet, got himself tangled and turned around.