"Bedlamite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Captain Jerry. "Set there and tee-hee like a Bedlamite. It's what you might expect. Wait till the rest of the town finds out about this; they'll do the laffin' then, and you won't feel so funny. We'll never hear the last of it in this world. If that darky comes down here, I'll—I'll drown her; ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... the "Robbers" is said to have propagated the breed of highwaymen in Germany. To ramble through the country, stop travellers on the highway, make huts in the forest, sing Bedlamite songs, and rail at priests and kings, was the fashion in Germany during the reign of that popular play. It was said, a banditti of students from one of the colleges had actually taken the road, and made Carl Moor their model. All this did very ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... sorts, out of nerves, and now and then (I begin to fear) out of my senses. All this Italy has done for me, and not England: I defy all you, and your climate to boot, to make me mad. But if ever I do really become a Bedlamite, and wear a strait waistcoat, let me be brought back among you: your people ...
— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various
... the man of the world for oddities of dress, dialect and manners. Naturally the transcendental movement struck him on its ludicrous side, and in his After-Dinner Poem, read at the Phi Beta Kappa dinner at Cambridge in 1843, he had his laugh at the "Orphic odes" and "runes" of the bedlamite ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... a Bedlamite?" she inquired tartly, when he stopped for breath. "If you have you can clear out and let me get to ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln |
