bedlamite
Example Sentences
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Mollie paced up and down like a bedlamite, sobbing and scolding to herself, and quite broken down with one day's imprisonment.
From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming
It was a tangle of bedlamite ravings, with long screeds from the Scriptures intermixed like currants in a bag-pudding.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
The devil take the bedlamite old woman," said the counsellor; "will she not let things take their course, prout de lege, but must always be putting in her oar in her own way?—Then,
From Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
The question as to which is preferable thus resolves itself into a choice between common-sense and bedlamite folly.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Some of the men of the town said that the two pilgrims were outlandish and bedlamite men, but Hopeful took courage to reprove some of the foremost of the mob.
From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte
