Madman

Examples

• Murder by a Madman, and the contents of the paper showed that Mr. Horace Harker had got his account into print after all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I kept it down; and no one knew I was a madman yet. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I hated that man with all a madman's hate. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Oliver gazed, for a moment, at the struggles of the madman (for such he supposed him to be); and then darted into the house for help. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They little thought they had married her to a madman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• For they are not ignorant of antiquity like the poets, nor are they afraid of their enemies, nor is any madman a friend of theirs. Plato. The Republic.
• He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman--incongruous even with his habitual foibles. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Did he mean that I was to give back arms to a madman? Plato. The Republic.
• The door was suddenly burst open with a loud noise, and a crowd of people rushed forward, crying aloud to each other to secure the madman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• My cousin rushed to meet them, like a madman. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• 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.

Editor: Will