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
Some, o’er-enamour’d of their bags, run mad, Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
The entire population of the town has run mad; even the most sensible are infected with the nonsense which is heard on all sides.
From The Lonely House by Streckfuss, Adolph
These wooded slopes are wet with abundant rainfall, and luxuriant foliage of tropical forms bewilders the traveler with illusions of fantastic creations of nature run mad over the earth.
From Prowling about Panama by Miller, George A.
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.
