Young souls, in such pleasant delirium as hers, are as unsympathetic as butterflies sipping nectar.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Of Hetty.  Adam Bede, ch.9.

  What are we learning Frenchor thepianofor,Iwould like to know, if it is not to be sold to a man some day† We have to cringe, and manoeuvre, and grimace for a husbandöa husband who may be deaf orhavea hump if he is richöa husband that may attack you in delirium tremens to-day if he makes a devout act of contrition for it to-morrow.

-O'Brien,William
  When We Were Boys.

   After supper Pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one delirium tremens.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.6.