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
Mr. Shelley’s poetry is, in sober sadness, drivelling prose run mad....
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
Why, I've no such thing, if thou'dst give me a crown; Besides, I'd not lend it, friend Joan, if I had, For fear it should make my old husband run mad.
The fellows seem to run mad after her.”
From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville
Poor lady, she’ll run mad When she shall lack it.
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
