brainsick
Example Sentences
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Good Lord! what madness rules in brainsick men When, for so slight and frivolous a cause, Such —— emulations shall arise.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
And then again he strove to put that from him, saying that what he had seen was but meet for one brainsick, and a dreamer of dreams.
From Wood Beyond the World by Morris, William
Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair, Thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son!
From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men, When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!
From King Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William
Calculating men who have thought only of the interest of the priesthood, have known well how best to stimulate and to display the spasmodic movements of a brainsick disinterestedness.
From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles
