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

The devil take the bedlamite old woman," said the counsellor; "will she not let things take their course, prout de lege, but must always be putting in her oar in her own way?—Then,

From Guy Mannering by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

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

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