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

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

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

I see now where the present bedlamite style of coiffure comes from.

From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Alcott, Louisa May

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)

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