Now I deem that this is no mere madman, but some noble knight in misfortune.

Thereafter poor Dunburne found himself enjoying the reputation of a harmless madman.

'Is man no more than this?' says the old king on the heath, as he gazes on the naked madman.

His pet madman.

Paul Gauguin: the calm madman.

Toward daybreak, as soon as the fire had been partially extinguished, the aged Governor of the province, Otto von Gorgas, sent out immediately a company of fifty men to capture the bloodthirsty madman.

For none in all that place suspected who he was, but everyone thought that he was only a poor gentle madman of the forest; so he was allowed to wander at will as his fancy led him.

Perhaps he thought me an escaped madman, or a dangerous tramp, with whom it was better to hold no conversation.

Execrable madmen!

Were he over-true to his own idea, he would become a fanatic, perhaps a madman.

Both plays owed their style and plot to the same traditionthe tradition created by Kyd's Spanish Tragedyin which ghostly promptings to revenge, terrible crime, and a feigned madman waiting his opportunity are the elements of tragedy.

'Twas thus our Giant lived a life of ease, Old Polyphemus, when, the down scarce seen On lip and chin, he wooed his ocean nymph: No curlypated rose-and-apple wooer, But a fell madman, blind to all but love.

Be off with you, be off!" Mathieu, who was very pale, slowly retired before this furious madman.

Why is it that perfectly horrid madmen on salaries are allowed to claim me as their own!" "My dear," cried the old lawyer, leading her to a chair, and striving to speak soothingly, "if Mr. BUMSTEAD desires to marry you he must indeed be insane.

The police in all countries know how many cases occur which can be explained only on that theory, and how diabolically ingenious madmen are in covering their tracks.

So make all haste, Messires, lest some misfortune shall befall this brave, innocent madman.

It was not yet ten when, silent as they had come, unbelievably impassive when but an hour before they had been irresponsible madmen, temporarily cruelty-surfeited, they resumed their journey.

Yet men who give A living daughter to the fickle will Of a capricious bridegroom, laughthe madmen!

Heigho!some day, mayhap, it shall be written how one Jocelyn Alain, a gentle, love-lorn knight, singing his woes within the greenwood, did meet four lovely madmen and straight fell mad likewise.

I can not see how any one could conceive such a notion or how the maddest madman could accomplish anything.

Indeed, we hardly yet understand this poet of pure fancy, this mystic this transcendental madman, who remained to the end of his busy life an incomprehensible child.

For a while the woods faded away, and in that tangled clearing rose the towers of Notre Dame, and the Seine glittered on under its great bridges, and again the world smelled of absinthe, and picturesque madmen gesticulated in clouds of tobacco smoke, and propounded fantastic philosophies amid the rattle of dominoesand afar off in the street a voice was crying "Haricots verts!"

If thou art a hero as that knight said of thee a while since, and not a pure madman, then follow after that knight and bring that lady back hither again.

"What have I done?" "Shot down two men; played like an actor on a stage a couple of times at least, if I must be blunt; hunted danger likelike a reckless madman; dared all The Corner to cross you; flaunted the red rag in the face of the bull.

[Footnote: "He afterwards," says Gibbon, "mentions a religious madman on the isle of Gorgona.