bedlamite

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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

Orphic odes" and "runes" of the bedlamite seer and bard of mystery   "Who rides a beetle which he calls a 'sphinx.'

From Initial Studies in American Letters by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Up the steep, narrow lane we ran with that bedlamite crowd at our heels.

From Greenmantle by Buchan, John

It was a tangle of bedlamite ravings, with long screeds from the Scriptures intermixed like currants in a bag-pudding.

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

After all, I reflected, the worst bedlamite must have food and shelter, and, unless the gleam had been a will-o'-the-wisp, I foresaw a fire.

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John