be maddened

Example Sentences

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You can dip into it anywhere and be maddened, confused or stirred.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2014

What a pity to be maddened by a little warbler!

From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge

Ah! never had Sarah been so beautiful as at this moment, when she seemed to be maddened by grief; never had her whole personal beauty exhaled such powerful, such irresistible charms.

From The Clique of Gold by Gaboriau, Émile

The other, who was blue-eyed and finer-featured, having gentle blood in his veins, seemed to be maddened by their talk, for he glared about him, gnashing his teeth like a wild beast in a cage.

From Pearl-Maiden by Haggard, Henry Rider

What use standing here to be maddened by this tantalizing earth-spirit, who shows us such glorious things, and will not tell us what they mean?’

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles