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

I had been captured as the stray bedlamite from Hamilton jail.

From International Short Stories American by Various

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

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