"Madman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unless seasonably apprized of the truth; and, when he knows the truth, he may start into rage, which I shall be more fitted to encounter than you. I am told that anger transforms him into a ferocious madman. Shall I ...
— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown
... about like a madman; he would cheerfully have killed them—he told me that, himself—but he couldn't. When he swung a chair over his head one sprang in the air and caught it, two threw themselves bodily upon him and forced him to the floor; it was only the ...
— Herland • Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
... that old madman down," cried the bailiff. "Now, once for all," he continued, shaking the ...
— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn
... he treat her to, carried out of himself, gone for the moment the madman she had named him. It was Jim Kendric's way to fight in silence, but now he shouted as he struck, defying them, cursing them, striking as hard as God had given him strength, recking not in the least of blows received, heart and mind centered alone on ...
— Daughter of the Sun - A Tale of Adventure • Jackson Gregory
... unexpected that Mahr was honestly at a loss to account for it. He looked anxiously toward the door, remembered the absence of his secretary and gasped in fear. He was at the mercy of the madman. With an ...
— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford
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