122 examples of demented in sentences

what between his interminable antiquities and those demented sections of the alphabetWhat are those things, mon ami, that are always going up and down in Wall Street?" "Elevators?"

It was his way to draw after him a throng of demented women, so that the poor, draggle-tailed creatures forgot husband and bairns and followed him among the mosses.

Janet's a silly body, but she means no ill, and her mother is demented at the loss of her.

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He was on one of these foraging expeditions when Joe discovered himemaciated, dirty, and half demented through terror of the gallows.

And she had attained to this pitch of madness through the boundless despair in which the loss of her only son had plunged her, withered, consumed by a love which she could not content, then demented, perverted to the point of crime.

For a space she became like a woman demented.

The frivolous senate which Stilicho had saved, and the weak and timid emperor whom he guarded, were alike demented.

She kindled no auto-da-, like the Spaniards; she incited no wholesale massacre, like the demented fury of France; she had a loving care of her subjects that no religious bigotry could suppress.

The sullen bomb dissolves in singing shapes; The whizz-bang jostles ittoo fast to flee; Machine-guns chatter like demented apes And, goodness, can it all be meant for me? It can and is.

Then, rending his garments, he cried with a loud voice: "Help, O Kureisch, your caravan is pursued by Mahomet!" With one accord the Meccan warriors, angered by the news that spread wildly among the populace, assembled before their holy place and swore a great oath that they would uphold their dignity and avenge their loss upon the upstart followers of a demented leader.

" This episode, unequalled in the traditions of the Australian aborigines, removed the imminent danger; and Sturt's tact, in a few moments changed the hundreds of demented demons into a pack of laughing, curious children, an easy and common transition with the savage nature.

The sadness of her latter years with her beloved and demented husband reminds one of the pathetic fate of Robert Schumann and his wife.

" The trapper stared at the Irishman incredulously, thinking him demented.

"Well, you see they did it; and the old bishop, he had his ears sealed up tight, and so did all the men; but the young man stood tied to the mast, and when they sailed past he was like a demented creature.

" If I had not known about the young warriors of Canon lane, I should have thought her demented: as it was, I could scarcely wait for the next day, which was Sunday, to be introduced to the scene which had already produced such a marked change in her character and tastes.

I perceived instantly that not one had the least ear for music or idea what it was; so I beat on the demented piano with both hands, and often with all fingers at once, and the bigger row I made the better they liked it.

" He used to say this with an ambiguous smile in which were equally mingled his contempt for useless idealism and his respect for the artista respect similar to the veneration that the Arabs feel for the demented, believing their insanity to be a gift from God.

The Song of the demented priest.

When the papers were not found on any of us, Camp and Baldwin both nearly went demented.

The lady wore tin plates, tin cans, tin spoons, etc., sewed on to skirt and waist in fantastic patterns, making music as she walked, and on her head a battered old coffee pot, with artificial flowers which had outlived their usefulness sticking out of the spout; and her winning partner was arrayed in rag patchwork of the most demented variety.

Darkness was mercifully covering this poor demented Indian woman, overcome by the burdens of her life, aged without being venerable, perhaps made hideous by want and sorrow.

Cordelia has been long out of sightif not in actual days yet in depth of feelingand the King himself is demented.

So what he said was quite true, and afterwards we heard the old lady telling her friends that he was demented, but he seemed very harmless and good.

I visited the Schatz Kammer, the treasure-room, and saw men go almost demented at the spectacle of the gold and jewels heaped up in the cases.

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