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
Why did He not tell her she went too far, she would run mad in the end?
From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.
Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when the image of it leaves him, he must run mad.
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by Kemble, J P
The whole town is run mad for her pasitively, and 'tis small wonder!
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery
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
