He tried to recant the terms of the contest, right then and there, and became apoplectic with rage when he discovered who it was who had duped him. |
I further wished him a happy Valentines Day and apoplectic attack with a smile. |
But to see it damaged by nothing more than speculation and egotism was enough to drive some of those closely involved, well, apoplectic. |
To make the situation more interesting, King Wenceslas IV had an apoplectic fit and died of a heart attack upon learning of the defenestration. |
The comment by me which so upset Henry, and sent you into a foaming apoplectic raging rant, was in a column last September. |
He went apoplectic and I suddenly found myself marched off to the guardroom almost at running pace. |