be maddened

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You can dip into it anywhere and be maddened, confused or stirred.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2014

Why should I not be maddened as others are?

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

Ah! never had Sarah been so beautiful as at this moment, when she seemed to be maddened by grief; never had her whole personal beauty exhaled such powerful, such irresistible charms.

From The Clique of Gold by Gaboriau, Émile

What use standing here to be maddened by this tantalizing earth-spirit, who shows us such glorious things, and will not tell us what they mean?’

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles

And because the people loved him and would be maddened by his slaying, Pelias and the men of war left him living.

From The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Colum, Padraic