Lexicographical Neighbors of Epileptically
Literary usage of Epileptically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... and epileptically slips on into the next township. I may add that the patient
was an irresponsible loafer and drinker who abused his wife; ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1906)
"... winters in the poorhouse and starts out in the spring, automatically abstracts
the hen from the roost and epileptically slips on into the next township. ..."
3. Unicorns by James Huneker (1917)
"... mumbo-jumbo howlers, that blaspheme the sacred name as they epileptically
leap, shouting glory-kingdom-come and please settle at the captain's office. ..."
4. The Writer's Art by Those who Have Practiced it by Rollo Walter Brown (1921)
"The trouble is that the weakling must be partial; the work of one proving dank
and depressing; of another, cheap and vulgar; of a third, epileptically ..."
5. Darwinism and Human Life: The South African Lectures for 1909 by John Arthur Thomson (1910)
"... it has been suggested that the epilepsy produces a toxin which passes to the
germ-cells so that the offspring are epileptically affected. ..."
6. Essays of Travel and in the Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson (1915)
"The trouble is that the weakling must be partial; the work of one proving dank
and depressing; of another, cheap and vulgar; of a third, epileptically ..."
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