Left to herself, Saxon worked with frantic haste, assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nearly ten years on I find myself lending a hand to get that crazed, giggling bedlamite back in the saddle. ❋ Unknown (2009)
(I told you this thing was a dilly of a stemwinder of a bedlamite bloviation.) ❋ Unknown (2009)
“It is a bedlamite world”: Menzies, Dark and Hurrying Days, p. ❋ Nicholson Baker (2008)
“It is a bedlamite world,” he wrote, “and the hardest thing in it is to discuss and decide as we do in War Cabinet policies which, even if successful, must bring the angel of death into many homes.” ❋ Nicholson Baker (2008)
Up the steep, narrow lane we ran with that bedlamite crowd at our heels. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The bedlamite Bard would tell all he knew of Gabriel's plans in the world, and who knew what Gabriel's Bright Court cousins might say to that? ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)
Greenmantle will avenge the murder of his ministers, and make that bedlamite woman sorry she was born. ❋ Unknown (2005)
This alternative quieted his transports in a moment: he was terrified at the apprehension of being treated like a bedlamite, being dubious of the state of his own brain; and, on the other hand, had conceived such a horror and antipathy for his tormentors, that, far from believing himself obliged by what they had done, he could not even think of them without the utmost rage and detestation. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Lord B — raved like a bedlamite, taxing me with want of candour and affection; but I easily justified my own integrity, and gave him such assurances of my love, that his jealousy subsided, and his spirits were recomposed. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The nature of his disappointment, and the keen remorse that seized him, when he reflected upon the dishonourable footing on which his character stood with Emilia, raised such perturbation in his mind, that his silence was succeeded by a violent fit of distraction, during which he raved like a bedlamite, and acted a thousand extravagancies, which convinced the people of the house, a certain bagnio, that he had actually lost his wits. ❋ Unknown (2004)
From a distance he would have seemed one of a musical temper experimenting with a new method of percussion, or a loosed bedlamite, at odds with his better nature and striking out flat-palmed with self-loathing. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)
The question was not _now_ whether the _hen_ could swim, but whether _he_ could; he floundered round and round, and screeched like a little bedlamite, and was just thinking of the last fib he told, when his brother Zedekiah came along and fished him out. ❋ Fanny Fern (N/A)
It isn't my fault that they are associated with nothing better at the decisive moment than the banal splendours of a gilded café and the bedlamite yells of carnival in the street. ❋ Unknown (1919)
It isn't my fault that they are associated with nothing better at the decisive moment than the banal splendours of a gilded caf and the bedlamite yells of carnival in the street. ❋ Unknown (1919)
The question as to which is preferable thus resolves itself into a choice between common-sense and bedlamite folly. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
