bedlamite
Example Sentences
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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
I see now where the present bedlamite style of coiffure comes from.
From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Louisa May Alcott
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
After all, I reflected, the worst bedlamite must have food and shelter, and, unless the gleam had been a will-o'-the-wisp, I foresaw a fire.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
The simple countryman had heard of the bedlamite from Hamilton jail.
From International Short Stories American by Various
