The maniac mystery.

Whatever door I found closed against me I drove at it with a maniac malice.

I accompanied my husband into the woods, comforting the hero clad in a single piece of cloth and maniac-like and overwhelmed with calamity.

They illustrate the history of the maniac dwelling among the tombs (Mark v. 3.), for these caves formed a perfect sort of house in which persons might dwell. 8th.

The maniac figure of the Saxon Ulrica was for a long time visible on the lofty stand she had chosen, tossing her arms abroad with wild exaltation as if she reigned empress of the conflagration which she had raised.

There a wild noise of cries for help burst upon the air, mixed with the shrill sound of maniac gibbering.

His face was twisted swift To maniac grins, and leered at me!

Mathieu could picture him flitting past, pale and distracted, with the step of a maniac hastening to some mysterious end, in which insanity would doubtless have its place.

All other work was neglected: rare clients were sent away and amazed editors found this maniac indifferent to his chance of getting book-parcels from them.

And in the library, Gregorio's stony features were bent all day over papers and documents and books of accounts, seeking refuge from sure ruin, while now and then his face was twisted into a curiously vacant grimace, and his maniac laugh cracked and reverberated through the lonely, vaulted chamber.

the heavy chalk boulders, your Honor ... and a determined maniac methinks, sir, who wanted revenge against a personal enemy....

Well, on the 15th August I had another of those maniac raptures, whose passing away would have left an elephant racked and prostrate.

After the execution was over, Ruiz, who was confined in his cell, attracted considerable attention, by his maniac shouts and singing.

in her most frantic mood, Not call the maniac sister, tenderly?

from her sacred groves 40 With maniac step the Pythian LAURA moves; Full of the God her labouring bosom sighs, Foam on her lips, and fury in her eyes, Strong writhe her limbs, her wild dishevell'd hair Starts from her laurel-wreath, and swims in air.

She was afraid of her father, who no longer seemed her father, created to protect and cherish her, but some maniac stranger.

Why, when KERNELIUS was engaged in a friendly game of cards for keeps, up at Saratogy, some poor deluded money-maniac telegrafs that the Commodore had at last found his match, and had been gathered to his fathers.

Or if I filled the soul with light, And bore its buoyant wing in air To plunge it down in deeper night, And mock its maniac wanderings there I did but wield the wand of power, That God intrusted to my clasp,

A moment's sense of the monstrous spectacle fell so poignant upon the Boy, that he felt dimly he must have been full half his life running this race with death, followed by a maniac bent on murder, in a world whose winter was strangely lit with the leaping fires of hell.

The maniac wife sets fire to Thornfield Hall, and perishes herself in the flames.

Surrendering myself to the grasp of Beethoven's powerful conception, I read in sounds far more expressive than words, the almost despairing agony of the strong-hearted, but still tender and womanly Fideliothe ecstatic joy of the wasted prisoner, when he rose from his hard couch in the dungeon, seeming to fuel, in his maniac brain, the presentiment of a bright being who would come to unbind his chainsand.

[Havock and Wrath, his maniac bride, Wheel o'er the conflict, &c.] These personified gentry I think are not in taste.