brainsick

Example Sentences

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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

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

From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold

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

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

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson