brainsick

Example Sentences

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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

Chapel and Barn-howrie would be upon my Top, and pursue me before the Commissary, and every Body will look upon me, as brainsick or mad.

From The Laird o' Coul's Ghost by Anonymous

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

For in that case he is guilty of no crime against you; it is I that am mad and brainsick to accuse him now.

From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace

To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson