brainsick
Example Sentences
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Good Lord! what madness rules in brainsick men When, for so slight and frivolous a cause, Such —— emulations shall arise.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men, When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!
From King Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
Calculating men who have thought only of the interest of the priesthood, have known well how best to stimulate and to display the spasmodic movements of a brainsick disinterestedness.
From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley
Pardon them for their native ignorance, And brainsick passion; For, after all, true men of sense will say,— Their works can never parallel thy play.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
