brainsick
Example Sentences
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Pardon them for their native ignorance, And brainsick passion; For, after all, true men of sense will say,— Their works can never parallel thy play.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much if the man be not brainsick.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
What, did the brainsick boy upbraid me so?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is Yourself knows well enough.
From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
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 William Morris
