run mad

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We don’t build things any longer: not vast obelisks covered in hideous hieroglyphs, not immense portals whose depths no mortal can fathom, not mighty sepulchres and vile altars that men run mad to behold.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2016

I have promised to allow thee time to think, not to press thee unrelentingly: I could run mad at every wasted quarter of an hour.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

"The bull is tame, so fear him not, All the while you pay your shot; When money's gone, and credit's bad, It's that which makes the bull run mad!"

From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

The town's run mad to look upon a gentlewoman shamed.

From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar

If so, we might justly conclude that this philosophy is a mere craze of speculation run mad, or else a joke.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)