One morning at breakfast his tripe didn't suit him, and he immediately brained his wife and children and set the house on fire, varying the monotony of the scene by pitching his mother-in-law down the well, having previously, with great consideration, touched her heart with a cheese knife.

If there's a wild, scatter-brained, handsome, dissipated, godless youth in all Slepington, it is on him that testy little heart will fix,and think him not only a hero, but a prodigy of genius.

My wife does not want toneither did my motherno true woman wants to, only a few rattle-brained, mentally unbalanced freakswho do not know what they want.

He saw her not only as a beautiful and most compelling fascinator, before whom he had grovelled, but as a big-brained and big-souled friend.

In Lucius's time they were commonly called beard-wearers, for all the strength of their wits lay in their beards, as Samson's did in his locks; but since the world began to see the vanity of that hare-brained cheat, they left it off to save their credit.

The strange hunter whom they had unexpectedly encountered several times, must be some crack-brained adventurer, the victim of a fancied wrong, who, most likely, had mistaken Harvey Richter for another person.

There now remain of the family but two personsold John or Jack Garie as he is called, a bachelorand who I have recently learned is at the point of death; and a crack-brained nephew of his, living in this citysaid to be married to a nigger womanactually married to her.

Hence, some two or three pegs higher, and not more, are such very very fine scoundrels as the Pelhams, &c.; shallow, watery-brained, ill-taught, effeminate dandiesanimals destitute apparently of one touch of real manhood, or of real passioncold, systematic, deliberate debauchees, withalseducers, God wot!

It kills the best and leaves behind the undermuscled and the under-brained to propagate the species.

Foiled in all his attempts, the cracked-brained old fellow impatiently awaited the wedding ceremony.

I think she possessed an utterly selfish nature, was not at all scrupulous in the attainment of her purposes, and was, in effect, that most dangerous member of society, a strong-willed and large-brained woman without a vestige of principle.

But I might have spared this quotation, and you your avowing; for this character might as well have been borrowed from some of the stalls in Bedlam, or any of your own hair-brained cox-combs which you call heroes, and persons of honour.

There are opened up infinite possibilities" He drank again and eyed me darkly, and then went on in his crack-brained way.

When the cougar broke from the bushes, the Indian rode after her, and threw his bolas, which twisted around her hind legs; and while she was struggling to free herself, he brained her with his second bolas.

"For Death is merciless: a crack-brained king He raises in the place of Prester John, Smites Priam, and mid-course in conquering Bids Caesar pause; the wit of Salomon, The wealth of Nero and the pride thereof, And battle-prowessor of Tamburlaine Darius, Jeshua, or Charlemaigne, Wheedle and bribe and surfeit Death in vain, And get no grace of him nor any love.

What a regiment!all the soldiers are mere boys, they saywilful, reckless, hair-brained boys who don't knowcan't knowwhere they're going. .

I answered him, 'Sir, let me assure you that I am no braggart, nor so hare-brained as you consider me.

Waco swung his arm and brained the man with an empty whiskey bottle.

Next I seen him was when he brained a fella that was shootin' at me.

The clergy, who are so impudent to teach the people the doctrines of faith, are all either cunning knaves or mad fools; for none but artificial, designing men, and crack-brained enthusiasts, presume to be guides to others in matters of speculation, which all the doctrines of Christianity are; and whoever has a mind to learn the Christian religion, naturally chooses such knaves and fools to teach them.

Doña Chonita is no pudding-brained girl.

He had twisted Santa Ana, one of the most subtle and self-seeking men of his time, around his finger as if he had been a yard of ribbon; Alvarado, the wisest man ever born in the Californias, was swayed by his judgment; yet all the arts of which his intellect was master fell blunt and useless before this clay-brained priest.

He handed it to the King behind his back and with it he shot one of his captors and brained the other.

The Charnock world murmured a little when, after a succession of De Lancey visitors for four months, the Rectory was invaded by Rosamond's eldest brother, Lord Ballybrehon, always the most hair- brained of the family, and now invalided home in consequence of a concussion of the brain while pigsticking in India.

And yet, could any one have wished Cecil Poynsett a more trying life than one of her disposition must needs have with impetuous, unpunctual, uncertain, scatter-brained, open-handed Ballybrehon, always in a scramble, always inviting guests upon guests without classification, and never remembering whom he had invited!