"She is an orphan," says the armless one, "and she is half-mad.

"I was half-mad last night," she panted.

In this way I hoped to disarm Raoul; but he had been half-mad, I think, and was scarcely sane now, such a power had jealousy over his better self.

For a while Miss Wimple remained standing on the spot, gazing anxiously, but vacantly, toward the door by which the half-mad lady had departed,her soft, deep eyes full of painful apprehension.

And somehow, starving, freezing, half-mad of lonesomeness, I got through the winter, but I am glad you did not see me when the first wild geese came north.

He told me that it was well known in London that Walter admired Miss Bryant, a declaration that I admit drove me half-mad with jealousy.

He never did find out whether he had been made the butt of a hideous practical joke by a half-mad brute or whether his tormentor really meant to send him to death and was deterred at the last moment by fear of the consequences.

And then, suddenly, from almost under his hands, something darted away with a strange, human cry, turning upon him for a single instant a face that was as white as the white stars of early nighta face with great, glowing, half-mad eyes.

The unfortunate man's wife and child were removed the following night in the dead-cart, and, driven half-mad by grief and terror, he broke open the door of his dwelling, and, plunging a sword in the watchman's breast, who opposed his flight, gained the street.

It's a case of half-mad revenge on Goujon's part, plainly.

Perhaps there was not now in broad Britain a person apparently more helpless and hopeless than this tall, half-blind, half-mad, and wholly miserable lad, with ragged shoes, and no degree, left suddenly fatherless in Lichfield.

DICCON THE BEDLAMITE, a half-mad mendicant, both knave and thief.

"I believe I was half-mad with rage last night," he said at length, "but this afternoon, I think I am beginning to be sane again.

Already the defenders were, from the effects of exertion and excitement, half-mad with thirst.

As to Nietschze; "He didn't see all; his isn't the last word; but he crossed the Forbidden Continent, and has spoken deliriously, half-mad from the journey."...

"Now, Matthew!" said I, "let us match This water's pleasant tune 10 With some old border-song, or catch That suits a summer's noon; "Or of the church-clock and the chimes Sing here beneath the shade, That half-mad thing of witty rhymes 15 Which you last April made!"

"She's really half-mad.

They've left the homes I tried to help them win, they've followed a self-seeking, half-mad, wholly vicious agitator, and their lives, that I meant to have flow on so smoothly, will be troubled and wasted.

And Nathaniel, meeting those eyes, felt that somewhere within him had been struck a strange chord of sympathy, something that made this little old man more than a half-mad stranger to him, and involuntarily the grip of his fingers tightened around those of his companion.

Buck Daniels rose from his chair; that half-mad, half-listening look was still in his eyesbehind his eyes.

Now, half-mad with fear and surprise, she sprang forward at full gallop, slipped and almost sprawled on the floor, and then thundered out of the door.