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 Spence, Lewis
It almost seemed as if millions run mad had tossed all these splendours together aimlessly, insanely shouting, "something more costly, something more costly still!"
From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Schubin, Ossip
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
This seems to me facility run mad, and great would be my guilt did I quote more.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
