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Sentences starting with madness

Madness can do all the odd conflicting things thou seest in him, and more. [5]

Sentences ending with madness

But what madness you were guilty of, what cruel madness! [11]
Our original agitation was just; our present obduracy is madness. [11]
Thus, if an unthinking and excited community had been listened to instead of the arguments of counsel, a poor crazy creature would have been held to a fearful responsibility for a mere freak of madness. [5]
To rise against the King was from the first a wicked deed--to fight against famine, the plague and death is sin and madness. [10]
It swept across the island, levelled forests of cocoa palms, battered villages to pieces, caught that little fleet in the harbour, and played with it in a horrible madness. [11]
To risk storming the houses, would have been madness. [10]
It was inevitable that I should think of madness. [5]
But in Dey Street she gained calmness, was able to renew something of that sense of proportion the lack of which, in the chaos in which she was engulfed, often brought her to the verge of madness. [9]
To rush at random into the immense-burning building would have been madness. [10]
The way is open, Paris beckons, France implores, Speak and we--" "Sire, it is madness, sheer madness! [5]

Short sentences using madness

It is folly, madness! [10]
Oh, what madness! [11]
What madness! [11]

Sentences containing madness two or more times

The splendour of youth is its madness, and the splendour of that madness is its unconquerable belief. [11]
The superstitious Dervishes fell back before this pair of demons; for their madness was like the madness of those who at the Dosah throw themselves beneath the feet of the Sheikh's horse by the mosque of El Hassan in Cairo. [11]

More example sentences with the word madness in them

To offer resistance would have been madness, for even Hermon perceived, by the loud clanking of weapons around them, the greatly superior power of the enemy, and they were acting by the orders of the King. [10]
It was only when she was within this vast and grim abode of madness that she realized the horror of her situation. [5]
It matters not what comes to Tekewani; he is as the leaf that falls from the stem; but for Summer Song that has far to go, it is the madness from beyond the Hills of Life. [11]
Madness, and a watching demon that whispered of substance, and sought to guide his wanderings in the night. [9]
It is madness to travel in Syria without an umbrella. [5]
When I fled to the edge of the abyss, I was raving and crazed, but what I then would have done in my madness, I would do now in cold blood--as surely as I hope to see my own people in Arelas once more! [10]
It was easy to see that he was a gentle creature and that his madness had nothing vicious in it. [5]
Our opponents, stung to madness by the defeat of 1840, have ever since rallied with more than their usual unanimity. [7]
From time to time I was roused into admiration of the horsemanship of Madame la Vicomtesse, for the restive Texas pony which she rode was stung to madness by the flies. [9]
His anger at those he left behind was almost madness, his humiliation was unlike anything he had ever known. [11]
Bennigsen loudly criticized this mistake, saying that it was madness to leave a height which commanded the country around unoccupied and to place troops below it. [2]
I love to think that now that the people have, or at least think they have, the power in their own hands, they will outgrow this form of madness, which is almost entitled to the name of a Parisian endemic. [6]
This was just the state to invite the spiritual manipulations of one of those theological practitioners who consider that the treatment of all morbid states of mind short of raving madness belongs to them and not to the doctors. [6]
Monsieur, I know that in his madness he would have killed you, but it was his suffering, not a bad heart, that made him do it. [11]
It is a term describing a shade of mental obliquity and queerness something short of irresponsible madness, and something more than temporarily "rattled" or bewildered for the moment. [4]
He had hardly taken it all in--the work of an instant--when he saw crouched in a corner, madness in his eyes, his half-breed Vigon. [11]
Seemeth it not strange that madness should filch from his memory his father's very lineaments; the customs and observances that are his due from such as be about him; and, leaving him his Latin, strip him of his Greek and French? [5]
Her grandfather lay sleeping safely at her side, and the crime to which his madness urged him, was not committed. [12]
Long after he shuddered when he remembered what he thought at that instant; what he wished to do; what rich madness possessed him. [11]
There was a secret somewhere, but madness was not the key to it. [5]
She was a remarkable woman in her way, with a will of her own, and a kind of madness in her; and there could be no backing and filling. [11]
Then the applause reached the degree of enthusiastic madness which she desired; even Loni clapped his hands from the steeple window. [10]
But that was only your madness; and madness can be cured. [11]
He guessed at once the motive, the madness, of this marriage. [11]
But--" "Oh, folly, oh, madness, my King! [5]
The unexpected news of terrible disaster might have led them to some unprecedented deed of madness. [10]
Her madness was not grotesque, but solemn and dramatic. [11]
Ian, you could never know the anguished desire I have to be with you always, but, if I keep sane at all, I will not go--no, I will not go with you, unless the madness carries me away. [11]
I sometimes suspected myself of madness, and should not have dared to impart this secret but to a man like you, capable of distinguishing the wonderful from the impossible and the incredible from the false. [6]
Once, in a moment of madness, Eben confessed his love, the painter never did: and he has to this day a delicious memory which has made Cynthia the heroine of many of his stories. [9]
Cambyses' madness had meanwhile taken fresh forms. [10]
Here we cure madness--the madness of war and other madnesses. [11]
This may seem madness, selfish and small; but after-events went far to justify my fears and imaginings, for behind there was a love, an aching, absorbing solicitude. [11]
It would be madness to attempt anything serious with such a force, and I cannot at the present time withdraw any from Missouri without risking the loss of this State. [7]
Something near to madness possessed Orlando. [11]
His was the madness of a man in a dream; hers was a painful thing. [11]
It would be madness not to. [9]
Greatness, I was mad for that, and my madness has brought me to this desolate end--alone. [11]
All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions, passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes. [5]
Our wings melt like those of Ikarus, and we fall into the ocean--the ocean of madness, to which I have often been near enough. [10]
When she had learned that Erris Boyne was no more faithful to her than he had been to his previous wife, she had gone mad; and Dyck Calhoun was paying the price of her madness. [11]
I longed to leap down there among them and claim her, but that thought was madness, for I should have been food for worms in a trice, so I kept my place. [11]
He cowered from it, but presently, with a look of madness in his eyes, rushed forward, arms outstretched, as though to seize this intolerable minstrel. [11]
All at once it appeared to Ranulph madness that he had not taken his father away from Jersey long ago. [11]
Whether the system is right in itself we do not stop to inquire; contenting ourselves with trying to show that, while our opponents use it, it is madness in us not to defend ourselves with it. [7]
Yes, yes, it is madness, I know--madness and badness--and dust at the end of it all. [11]
For a season, indeed, interest in the game became a sort of midsummer madness which pervaded the two households, at Keokuk and at Quarry Farm. [5]
There is madness in your eye! [5]
She was calm in her madness. [11]
The whole incident in her life as time wore on assumed an aspect bizarre, incredible, as the follies of a night of madness appear in the saner light of morning. [9]
They told me in Beirout (these people who always gorge you with advice) that it was madness to travel in Syria without an umbrella. [5]
What madness could impel So rum a flat to face so prime a swell? [6]
I am sure I have never seen in the gold and silver mines any madness, fury, frenzy to get suddenly rich which was even remotely comparable to that which raged in France in the Bubble day. [5]
Furthermore, said Abdul Huseyn, in proof of their madness and a certain sort of holiness, they wore hats always, as Arabs wore their turbans, and were as like good Mahommedans as could be, sitting down to speak and standing up to pray. [11]
To follow these horsemen, coaches, carts, litters, and pedestrians just as she was would have been madness. [10]
It was no home for his faith, for those joys which the sane take gladly, when it is right to take them, and the mad long for and die for when their madness becomes unbearable. [11]
So he lived his own life, and when he met Junia he cavilled at himself for his madness with Luzanne. [11]
He muttered to himself, "Lo, the poor thing's madness is up with the time! [5]
Solitude fixes our hearts immovably on things--call it madness, what you will. [11]
No, let her have the pleasure, if it was one, at any rate the wholesome excitement, of companionship; it might save her from lapsing into melancholy or a worse form of madness. [6]
You would not have come to them of your own free will, because a madness 'got hold of you, and so they came to you. [11]
How the exchange had occurred he could not now understand, but to disbelieve that it had taken place would have been madness or self-deception. [10]
Thy plan was folly, thy hope madness, thy means to achieve horrible. [11]
A winter of famine lurked ahead, and men were goaded near to madness at the thought of clearings made and corn planted in the spring within reach of their hands, as it were, and they might not harvest it. [9]
Money-lust has always existed, but not in the history of the world was it ever a craze, a madness, until your time and mine. [5]
Prexaspes wrought the evil deed by my command, but instead of bringing me the peace I yearned for, that deed has tortured me into madness and death. [10]
All she had enjoyed with him and suffered through him she consigned to the period of her craziness; she had taught herself to regard it all as part of the madness to which she had been a victim. [10]
A moment of dumb confusion succeeded, then she realized her madness, and the thing as it really was. [11]
He not only did not renounce them subsequently, but when he was in doubt or inwardly at variance, he referred to the views he had held at this time of his madness and they always proved correct. [2]
I saw that Dennis had the madness in his brain, and so I left him again in the evening of the day I found him, and came here--it is a long way. [11]
I was very cool: for madness is a strange thing; you see everything with an intense aching clearness--that is the trouble. [11]
One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the pleasure derived from being noticed. [5]
In our own city, which we fondly believed to be proof against the prevailing madness, a slight epidemic occurred; slight, yet momentarily alarming. [9]
Had not the Church and Pontiac and the world punished him beyond his deserts for a moment's madness brought on by a great shock! [11]
And yet I cannot blame your madness. [10]
This common madness can develop, by nurture, into a hunger for notoriety in one, for fame in another. [5]
Half of the buildings, as Mr. Hutchins pointed out, were closed,--mute witnesses of tariff-tinkering madness. [9]
Well, whatever had brought Milly to this country-- love or madness of religion--she repented of it. [13]
We have patiently borne hunger and distress in fighting against the Spaniards and for our Bible, but to struggle against certain death is madness. [10]
To love a blind man was sheer madness, but in her was a superstitious belief that he would see again. [11]
She tried to believe that her Tom's madness had banished this habitual gesture of his; but she could not do it. [5]
A madness had been on him. [11]
If he had been as high as the Czar, or as low as the ditcher, he would have been the same; but it would be madness to admit that to Jean Jacques now. [11]
Even they might be only the impulse of the moment, one of those acts of madness of jealous and revengeful people. [11]
And it would be a form of madness which I do not believe in, that Nefert should still care for her braggart husband. [10]
I can't go back, and going on is madness. [11]
It was madness, as he knew, for a shot would guide the pursuit: none the less, did he draw a pistol from his belt and fire. [11]
David read him as an open book, and saw the madness come upon him. [11]
She taunted me and worried me, and because I would not quarrel, seemed to have a greater grievance--jealousy is a kind of madness. [11]
He was part and parcel of that American environment in which literary ambition was regarded as sheer madness. [9]
For Valmond had an instant's madness, and only saved himself from the tumult in his blood by getting to his feet, with strenuous resolution. [11]
The source of all this trouble was social.... Then toward the end of that last campaign week, madness suddenly came upon me. [9]
I am now about to record an act of madness, of folly, on my part. [11]
I will not--unless a spring-time madness drives me to it to-day--I will not go with you. [11]
Thou wert mistaken; a madness possessed thee; but thou, I knew, wouldst choose the way of honour. [11]

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