bedlamite

Example Sentences

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Left to herself, Saxon worked with frantic haste, assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor.

From The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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

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

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 Whyte, Alexander