bedlamite

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Across the street, char-marks marred the loading dock where local bedlamites built fires at night.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2015

Should the morally insane, by wise and gentle care, be won back to health, as the wretched bedlamites have been, will not the angels themselves give thanks?

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

"I have caught the infection," I said, "and am one of the bedlamites."

From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary

It is with justice that the criminal scoffs at the good as bedlamites who, with fanatical delusion, strive for castles in the air.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von

The Frolic came boiling up to the float at a rate calculated to smash things to smithereens if she did not slow down at short order, everybody yelling, everybody shouting like bedlamites.

From Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)