lose one's reason

Example Sentences

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Is it a crime to lose one's reason?

From Sevenoaks by Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)

I can understand how one might lose one's reason for that girl's sake, and not recover it after her death.

From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul

And at such a moment not only doubt might come over one but one might lose one's reason from fear, so that one would not be able to think at all.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor