be maddened

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

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2014

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

God p. 209forbid that you should ever be maddened into imitating such cruelty. 

From True Words for Brave Men by Kingsley, Charles

Cochrane is sure to be maddened by delays and difficulties of all kinds, and if so he will certainly speak out in a way that will ruffle their feelings greatly, and may bring on trouble.

From With Cochrane the Dauntless by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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