She had come in to find him staring back into that room in a half cataleptic state; and the sight of his ghastly face brought all back to her.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
It is barely possible that in some very abnormal condition or cataleptic state, or state of trance, a man might exist, with very slight nourishment or without food, but that a man could walk about, speak, and act, and, doing this, live forty days and nights without food is simply an impossibility.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh
Anon, the bell, which hid in a little pent-house of its own high up on the ivied wall, jangled again, and a shock of terror ran through Eliza's body once more, but only for her to relapse into the former cataleptic state.
"The Star-Gazers"
George Manville Fenn