bedlamite
Example Sentences
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The bedlamite replied, "The world said I was mad; I said the world was mad, and they outwitted me."
From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Mark Lemon
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
I had been captured as the stray bedlamite from Hamilton jail.
From International Short Stories American by Various
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
Doctor Slop, upon subjects divine, Such bedlamite slaver lets drop, Taat if Eady should take the mad line, He'll be sure of a patient in Slop.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
