Some say that Tom grew a little crack-brained in his old days, and that, fancying his end approaching, he had his horse new shod, saddled, and bridled, and buried with his feet uppermost; because he supposed that at the last day the world would be turned upside-down; in which case he should find his horse standing ready for mounting, and he was determined at the worst to give his old friend a run for it.

A fine state of things, trulythat I am to have my mind dissipated when I'm in working trim by the nonsense of a crack-brained poet!" Roundjacket's indignation at this unfeeling allusion to his great poem was so intense, that for the moment he was completely deprived of utterance.

Only a beginning has been made, for the field stretches from ocean to ocean; but the man who, in 1873the year of Livingstone's death,should have predicted one-half of the achievement of the present generation would have been laughed at as a crack-brained visionary.

not to speak of the absurd rumors that had been circulating about him, the name which they had given him of a crack-brained genius.

It's a crack-brained scheme, and could only originate with a young man whose affections have weakened his headI consent.

It's a crack-brained scheme, and could only originate with a young man whose affections have weakened his headI consent.

"I can't imagine," said Lawrence, "that your aunt would ever think of such a thing as doing me a harm, or how those little shoes would prevent her, if she wanted to, but I suppose Aunt Patsy is crack-brained on some subjects, and so I thought it best to humor her, and took the shoes.

It had been some crack-brained Indian, I believe Sassaba, who yet smarted at the remembrance of the death of his brother, who was killed with Tecumseh in the Battle of the Thames. 11th.

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.

Why don't you hustle the old thing out," remarked a bystander, the respectability of whose appearance contrasted broadly with his manners; "she is some crack-brained abolitionist.

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.

These cover a great variety of subjects, from the absurdity of some crack-brained crank to the pathetic appeal of some needy soul.

Undoubtedly there are among us troublesome, wicked people, but fewer wicked than crack-brained.

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

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

"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.

The only enemy we fear is the crack-brained fanatics who prate about peace and goodwill whilst foreign Dreadnoughts are gradually closing in upon us.

Mr. Shandy, I imagine, is designed to personify not "crack-brained learning" so much as "theory run mad."

"It sounded crack-brained, I expect.

The book that tells us most about booksellers and bookselling in bygone days is the work of a crack-brained fellow who published and sold in the reigns of Queen Anne and George I., and died in 1733 in great poverty and obscurity.

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.

We've been dying right along, from the beginning of this crack-brained Don Quixote crusade.

Finally, if The Field is to Memoir as a window-sash is to a Duchess's flounces, what chance has a crack-brained Bedlamite of munching potatoes in St. James's Palace?

Thou hast got a rare bargain, Lanyere; and when the crack-brained Puritan gave thee that paper, he little knew the boon he bestowed upon thee.