run mad

Example Sentences

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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

It almost seemed as if millions run mad had tossed all these splendours together aimlessly, insanely shouting, "something more costly, something more costly still!"

From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Schubin, Ossip

Some, o’er-enamour’d of their bags, run mad, Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

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

We are beginning to run mad with Spanish painting.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor