bedlamite
Example Sentences
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It was a tangle of bedlamite ravings, with long screeds from the Scriptures intermixed like currants in a bag-pudding.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
The devil take the bedlamite old woman," said the counsellor; "will she not let things take their course, prout de lege, but must always be putting in her oar in her own way?—Then,
From Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
The bedlamite replied, "The world said I was mad; I said the world was mad, and they outwitted me."
From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Mark Lemon
The simple countryman had heard of the bedlamite from Hamilton jail.
From International Short Stories American by Various
Some of the men of the town said that the two pilgrims were outlandish and bedlamite men, but Hopeful took courage to reprove some of the foremost of the mob.
From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte
