bedlamite

Example Sentences

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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

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

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