run mad
Example Sentences
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We don’t build things any longer: not vast obelisks covered in hideous hieroglyphs, not immense portals whose depths no mortal can fathom, not mighty sepulchres and vile altars that men run mad to behold.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2016
It is neither strange nor meritorious for a knight to run mad upon any just occasion.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
Why did He not tell her she went too far, she would run mad in the end?
From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald
The Professorin desired to know what was said, but he replied that if he should repeat it, he should run mad here on board the boat.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
Is it the unlimited use of spirits, or is it not rather the ignorance begotten of fanaticism run mad, which disloyally put weapons into your hands?
