"They are dangerous lunatics.

"But are not your intentions somewhat ill-advised considering her position as a criminal lunatic?"

" The way in which slaveholding 'public opinion' protects a poor female lunatic is illustrated in the following advertisement in the "Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer," June 27, 1838: "Taken and committed to jail, a negro girl named Nancy, who is supposed to belong to Spencer P. Wright, of the State of Georgia.

Our fellow-captives are a motley collection of the victims of nature, of justice, and of tyrannyof lunatics who are insensible of their situation, of thieves who deserve it, and of political criminals whose guilt is the accident of birth, the imputation of wealth, or the profession of a clergyman.

" "They are a kind of harmless lunatics," said the Chancellor; "they should, I think, be made wards in Chancery.

"Amiable lunatics" was the first comment of their countenances, and"There never was any telling what the artistic temperament would do next!"

The pretended lunatic was a man in my own pay.

"Why, the fellow must have been a stark lunatic!"

There is a laborious lunatic who makes ice at the fair of the American Institute, with the thermometer at 80° or so in the shade.

The Carnegie men had refused to take him seriously, had laughed at him as at a mild-mannered lunatic.

I used to think, for my part, that lovers were a sort of mild lunatics, never to be troubled or trusted with any earthly thing; but that's one of the things modern times have changed!

The shortest effect I can give of the impression I had was that our men, superior, broadminded, more frank, and lovable beings, were regarding these faded, unimaginative products of perverted kulture as a set of objectionable but amusing lunatics whose heads had got to be eventually smacked.

In this miserable state he seemed to be appointed the first inhabitant of his own Hospital; especially as from an outrageous lunatic, he sunk afterwards to a quiet speechless ideot; and dragged out the remainder of his life in that helpless situation.

I can't help thinking that he is a runaway lunatic, and a gentleman by birth.

For my own part, when I see a man uttering his complaints under such a mountain of feathers, I am apt to look upon him rather as an unfortunate lunatic, than a distressed hero.

BICÊTRE, a hospital, originally a Carthusian monastery, in the S. side of Paris, with a commanding view of the Seine and the city; since used for old soldiers, and now for confirmed lunatics.

I was a fool to listen to that dern lunatic.

Why, I'm up here looking for an escaped lunatic, you see," said that worthy, without rising.

The clock he needed as the instrument of his vengeance; therefore he would not have sold it at any price to the sheep-eyed old lunatic of the pushcart, who now, on the eve of his eviction, stood gazing in with wistful contemplation.

She could no longer regard his painting as the caprice of a gentle lunatic.

It's pretty painful to learn that the mere sight of one would turn you into a gibbering lunatic.

He had not done with me yet, however, and before abandoning me as an incorrigible lunatic, asked if I would like to see Naples.