bedlamite

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In another instant, I heard that of Susannah—the meek Susannah,—she too was among the curious to examine the features of the bedlamite, Archy Dargan.

From International Short Stories American by Various

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

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

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 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