bedlamite

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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

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

He gibbered at me like a bedlamite, but I knew what I was doing.

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

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

It isn’t my fault that they are associated with nothing better at the decisive moment than the banal splendours of a gilded café and the bedlamite yells of carnival in the street.

From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Conrad, Joseph