1749. Hurd, Horaces Art of Poetry, Notes, § 123. She herself, when opening to the chorus her last horrid purpose, says, fiercely indeed, but not frantically.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. v. Our philosopher, as stoical and cynical as he now looks, was heartily and even frantically in Love.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 332. When drunk, the East African is easily irritated; with the screams and excited gestures of a maniac he strides about, frantically flourishing his spear and agitating his bow, probably with nocked arrow.