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

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)

And the fame of it will be of use to you in your next amour; for the women, you know, run mad after fortune-tellers and preachers.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

Apparently grief was flowing in his veins instead of blood; evidently he strove not to think of certain things, preferring to forget them, so as not to run mad.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

What do you talk of clocks or timepieces—All glasses, reck'ning, and log-line, are run mad with me.

From Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen by Anonymous