bedlamite

Example Sentences

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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 Scott, Walter, Sir

I had been captured as the stray bedlamite from Hamilton jail.

From International Short Stories American by Various

In another instant, I heard that of Susannah—the meek Susannah,—she too was among the curious to examine the features of the bedlamite, Archy Dargan.

From International Short Stories American by Various

He gibbered at me like a bedlamite, but I knew what I was doing.

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

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 Buchan, John