brainsick

Example Sentences

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And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is Yourself knows well enough.

From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold

Chapel and Barn-howrie would be upon my Top, and pursue me before the Commissary, and every Body will look upon me, as brainsick or mad.

From The Laird o' Coul's Ghost by Anonymous

Calculating men who have thought only of the interest of the priesthood, have known well how best to stimulate and to display the spasmodic movements of a brainsick disinterestedness. 

From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles

Good Lord! what madness rules in brainsick men When, for so slight and frivolous a cause, Such —— emulations shall arise.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair, Thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son!

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William