brainsick

Example Sentences

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And then again he strove to put that from him, saying that what he had seen was but meet for one brainsick, and a dreamer of dreams. 

From Wood Beyond the World by Morris, William

And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is Yourself knows well enough.

From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold

Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much, if the man be not brainsick.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

Chapel and Barn-howrie would be upon my Top, and pursue me before the Commissary, and every Body will look upon me, as brainsick or mad.

From The Laird o' Coul's Ghost by Anonymous

And this man, at once unprincipled and brainsick, had in his keeping the understanding and the conscience of the unhappy Monmouth.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron