His legs twisted under him, he described short running circles and jumped up and down in accesses of hysteria.
"The Eternal Maiden"
T. Everett Harré
Yes; but how can you now prove the necessity of compensations to a world which wanders out of the way in continued accesses of gain; how persuade it that it is an urgent need, as a preventive against new crises, to shelter towns behind the sacred bulwarks of cloisters?
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
But it must not be supposed that this madness or possession came only on those persons who predisposed themselves to be attacked by it; others were afflicted with it, who vainly struggled against its influence, and who deeply lamented their own liability to be seized with these terrible accesses of frenzy.
"The Book of Were-Wolves"
Sabine Baring-Gould