brainsick

Example Sentences

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Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much, if the man be not brainsick.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

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

From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold

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

From King Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William

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