bedlamite

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Mollie paced up and down like a bedlamite, sobbing and scolding to herself, and quite broken down with one day's imprisonment.

From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by Fleming, May Agnes

I see now where the present bedlamite style of coiffure comes from.

From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Alcott, Louisa May

Doctor Slop, upon subjects divine,   Such bedlamite slaver lets drop, Taat if Eady should take the mad line,   He'll be sure of a patient in Slop.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

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 Lemon, Mark

The question as to which is preferable thus resolves itself into a choice between common-sense and bedlamite folly.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch