brainsick
Example Sentences
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Calculating men who have thought only of the interest of the priesthood, have known well how best to stimulate and to display the spasmodic movements of a brainsick disinterestedness.
From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley
Pardon them for their native ignorance, And brainsick passion; For, after all, true men of sense will say,— Their works can never parallel thy play.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd
For in that case he is guilty of no crime against you; it is I that am mad and brainsick to accuse him now.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Arthur Wallace Pickard
What, did the brainsick boy upbraid me so?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
