drive mad
Example Sentences
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The play is an essay on the artistocracy of the insane: Whom the gods wish to embrace, they first drive mad.
From Time Magazine Archive
They drive mad horses in Giridih—animals that become hysterical as soon as the dusk falls and the countryside blazes with the fires of the great coke ovens.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
Did I not give you an Arabian horse, to drive mad with envy the foreign and native dandies of the Bois de Boulogne?
From Vautrin by Balzac, Honoré de
I am glad on't, maiden," said Aunt Judith, somewhat angrily; "for I think the follies of the young people of this generation would drive mad an old brain like mine.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Scott, Walter, Sir
