Madmen

Examples

• Nay, say rather the feather-pated giddy madmen, said Waldemar, who must be toying with follies when such business was in hand. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Send one of your madmen to get me a bottle of wine. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Those whom you have disarmed to satisfy groundless suspicions, will you leave them exposed to the armed madmen of your country? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As they descend the hill like madmen running a race, he falls. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Nay, he said, if madness be forbidden, neither may they copy the behaviour of madmen. Plato. The Republic.
• Only first exchange that nightcap for some more appropriate covering, or we shall be taken for madmen. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Madmen, on the other hand, are generally cowards to those who act with firm courage. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He sat beside her; and, taking the paper from her hand, said, Not a word more shall my sweet Perdita read of this contention of madmen and fools. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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