201 examples of bedlam in sentences

3 "Therefore my counsel is you shall not stir, Nor farther wade in such a case as this," And in Turbervile's "Tragical Tales," 1587 "Eare thou doe wade so farre, revoke to minde the bedlam boy.

He is not a man-midwife; for he would be better skilled in physic than to think fits and madness any ornament to the characters of his heroines: though his Sir Charles had no thoughts of marrying Clementina till she had lost her wits, and the divine Clarissa never acted prudently till she was in the same condition, and then very wisely desired to be carried to Bedlam, which is really all that is to be done in that case.

They had awakened Bedlam.

Now that there is such a difference between men, in respect of their understandings, I think nobody, who has had any conversation with his neighbours, will question: though he never was at Westminster-Hall or the Exchange on the one hand, nor at Alms-houses or Bedlam on the other.

Illinois alone projected 1,350 miles of railroad, without money and without credit to carry out this Bedlam legislation, and in almost every village there were "corner lots" enough to be sold to make a great city.

Sir, you are fitter for a Jayle, a Bedlam, Then to stand free before us.

Madman N. madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite^, candidate for Bedlam, raver^, madcap, crazy; energumen^; automaniac^, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac &c (low spirits);; crank, Tom o'Bedlam. dreamer &c 515; rhapsodist, seer, highflier^, enthusiast, fanatic, fanatico [Sp.]; exalte [Fr.]; knight errant, Don Quixote.

'Tis true he is but a candidate of Bedlam, and is not yet admitted fellow, but has the license of the College to practise, and in time will not fail to come in according to his seniority.

It is bedlam let loose, a scene of wild uproar and confusion.

Bedlam is not pleasant to one's ears; yet to see the staid mountain herdsmen, attired in plumes, petticoats, epaulets, and goggles, blowing mightily with puffed-out lips on bamboo flageolets, is worth a long journey.

" Go to Bedlam for examples.

BEDLAM, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 374; curiosities of London, one of the, ii. 374, n. 1; houses built near it, iv.

472, n. 2; Ogilvie's poetry, i. 423, n. 1; Prophecy of Famine, i. 373, n. 1, 420; iii. 77, n. 1; Gotham, Europe's treatment of savages, iii. 204, n. 1; straw in Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 2; 'strolling tribe,' i. 168, n. 1; Warburton, Bishop, iv. 49, n. 1; v. 81, n. 2; Whitehead, Paul, i. 125; 'With wits a fool, with fools a wit,' i. 266, n. 1.

FOOTE, Samuel, Baretti's trial, ii. 94; Bedlam, visits, ii. 374; 'black broth,' ii. 215; Burke, compared with, iv. 276; Chesterfield, satire on, iv.

HUTTON, William (of Birmingham), Bedlam, visits, ii. 374, n. 1; Birmingham, cost of living at, i. 103, n. 2; Derby, History of, iii.

A Song of Bedlam Inn and other poems.

A Midnight visit to Detroit's jampacked bedlam.

Cleveland's "bedlam" a medical limbo.

Bellevue "psycho" a bedlam for young and old alike.

Kings "psycho" a jampacked "bedlam" new hospital, next door, empty 5 years By Albert Deutsch.

R583629. Brooklyn's "bedlam" patient-packed; fine hospital stands empty next door.

New York's shameseventh floor bedlam in Bellevue's "psycho" building.

"Surely in all this bedlam we ought to be able to acquit our new client Mr. Higgleby of the charge of bigamy.

If the Varicks and the Butlers set the pace, I promise you to keep the quarry, Mistress Folly, in viewperhaps outfoot you all to Bedlam!...

In matters of battle and conquest we have got firmly rooted in our minds the idea (an idea fit for the philosophers of Bedlam) that we can best trample on a people by ignoring all the particular merits which give them a chance of trampling upon us.

201 examples of  bedlam  in sentences