bedlamite

Example Sentences

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He gibbered at me like a bedlamite, but I knew what I was doing.

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

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 Rossetti, William Michael

It isn’t my fault that they are associated with nothing better at the decisive moment than the banal splendours of a gilded café and the bedlamite yells of carnival in the street.

From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Conrad, Joseph

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 Lemon, Mark

Up the steep, narrow lane we ran with that bedlamite crowd at our heels.

From Greenmantle by Buchan, John