So what if I am quite a spectacular energumen, at least I'm full of surprises. ❋ Mona Elyafi (2009)
On the left is a prostrate energumen striking his forehead against the ground, with ❋ Unknown (2007)
At any rate, in Oxford the young energumen found himself happy and merry beyond words: he worked brilliantly, was a notable figure in the Union debates, argued passionately against every conventional English tradition, and attacked authority, complacence, and fetichism of every kind. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
Nevertheless, they did not make him out to be an energumen for all that. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
His verses I detest, but I love to hear him recite them -- he has the air of an energumen. ❋ John Morley (1880)
A few hours had sufficed to break the spirit of the energumen, who now declared that he recognized the authority of the magistrates and begged forgiveness for having insulted them. ❋ Keene [Translator] Wallace (1877)
And in a leading article of the "Trumpet," Keck characterized Ladislaw's speech at a Reform meeting as "the violence of an energumen -- a miserable effort to shroud in the brilliancy of fireworks the daring of irresponsible statements and the poverty of a knowledge which was of the cheapest and most recent description." ❋ Unknown (1871)
In the first place, it is my duty to acknowledge that but for your interference yesterday the gigantic energumen by whom I was unexpectedly beset would have slain me. ❋ Lewis Wallace (1866)
Ladislaw's speech at a Reform meeting as "the violence of an energumen -- a miserable effort to shroud in the brilliancy of fireworks the daring of irresponsible statements and the poverty of a knowledge which was of the cheapest and most recent description." ❋ George Eliot (1849)
He coloured and looked astonished, as well as annoyed; and the words had no sooner escaped my lips than I felt a shock of alarm lest such an anticipation of words -- very far from being words of course, easy to divine -- should have betrayed me as an exceptional being, a sort of quiet energumen, whom every one, Bertha above all, would shudder at and avoid. ❋ George Eliot (1849)
If my son had not forsaken me, deluded by debasing fanatical dreams, worthy only of an energumen whose dwelling is among tombs, I might have gone on and seen my path broadening to the end of my life; for he was a youth of great promise. ❋ George Eliot (1849)
And if a fellow elects to let the whole thing pass him by, some socially conscious energumen is bound to sweat him with a lecture on civic duty, like the citizeness who came at me. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I left him dancing and raving like an energumen. " ❋ Jenkins, Herbert (1912)
"Caleb is such an [Energumen] waiting for that [morman] [pank]." ❋ Gangraper247 (2010)
