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She felt vaguely comforted, strengthened by the picture, and some of her hurt and frantic regret was pushed from the top of her mind.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRANTIC
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frantic
 a.  highly excited with strong emotion; disordered or nervous activity
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  There were thousands of able-bodied men in the state troops for whom the army was frantic, but the government pleaded for them in vain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  There had been reports of a slight skirmish within the Yankee lines and Mose, frantic with grief, had risked his own life to search for Ashley's body but had found nothing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  Scarlett was frantic with anxiety.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  She wanted Tara with the desperate desire of a frightened child frantic for the only haven it had ever known.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  His bare chest heaved up slowly and sank quickly and the red stream seeped from between Melanie's small frantic fingers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  "Hush," he said, disentangling her frantic grip and pulling a clean handkerchief from his pocket.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  Many ex-Confederate soldiers, knowing the frantic fear of men who saw their families in want, were more tolerant of former comrades who had changed political colors in order that their families might eat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  When the second day passed with no word from him, she was frantic with disappointment and fear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
9  And when the election came, despite the frantic efforts of the Republicans, Georgia once more had a Democratic governor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
10  She felt vaguely comforted, strengthened by the picture, and some of her hurt and frantic regret was pushed from the top of her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
11  The harness rattled, the sleigh-bells were frantic, Jack Elder's setter sprang beside the horses, barking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  And with these cracked words he finally departed, leaving me, for the moment, in no small wonderment at his frantic impudence.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
13  In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
14  Once more, and finally, the replenished pewter went the rounds among the frantic crew; when, waving his free hand to them, they all dispersed; and Ahab retired within his cabin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
15  Meantime, Gabriel, ascending to the main-royal mast-head, was tossing one arm in frantic gestures, and hurling forth prophecies of speedy doom to the sacrilegious assailants of his divinity.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
Example Sentence:
1  The actors buzzed about in a frantic activity.
2  A bird had been locked in and was by now quite frantic.
3  Things are frantic in the office right now.
4  A busy night in the restaurant can be frantic in the kitchen.
5  The young man went scrambling down into the ward in frantic haste.
6  Executives should stop equating the work ethic with the long working hours, work should not be frantic, a relaxed ethos in the office might work better in the long run.
7  She bid frantically for the old chair.
8  The staff is working frantically on final arrangements for the summit.
9  She tore open the envelope and frantically read the letter.
10  In any other operating room instruments would have been beeping wildly and doctors would be frantically shouting orders as they attempted to resuscitate me.