bedlamite

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He wrote to a friend that he was not disturbed because a paper had said that the poem of the Cantata was like a "communication from the spirit of Nat Lee through a Bedlamite medium."

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell

And I ain't out of my head—not yet; though keepin' company with a Bedlamite may have some effect, I shouldn't wonder.

From The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Don't be offended with me, Tom, only make allowances, and if I sometimes talk a bit like a Bedlamite don't repeat my ravings; that's all.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

And with this Bedlamite Speech he broke away from me,—for I had kept a slight hold of him,—and set off Running as hard as his legs could carry him.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

Finally, if The Field is to Memoir as a window-sash is to a Duchess's flounces, what chance has a crack-brained Bedlamite of munching potatoes in St. James's Palace?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various