Do we say maddening or madding

maddening 277 occurrences

And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me.

" "Why?" His pauses to consider these questions were maddening.

" He was a little man, and he spoke drily, with a maddening deliberation.

With his chubby face nestled against her breast, she lay there fighting against that interminable, maddening buzzing in her brain.

The very sound of his footsteps behind her was maddening.

And the most maddening part of it was her knowledge that Benton was right, that in many essential things he had done her a good turn, which her own erratic inclinations bade fair to wholly nullify.

The maddening excitement of expectation as she ran wildly towards the cliffs at our feet, and then sheered off again inexplicably;her foremast and bowsprit, I recollect, were gone short off by the deck; a few rags of sail fluttered from her main and mizen.

If only there was some activity in which she could engage it might serve to divert the current of maddening thoughts that kept overwhelming her.

Now that there was no activity to distract her maddening thoughts once more paced in turmoil through her brain.

And besides my terror at this horrible attack, and the maddening pain of my wound, there was a sudden feeling of loathing such as you might feel were some filthy tarantula to strike its fangs into you.

So the Bistonian race, a maddening train, Exult and revel on the Thracian plain.

She was still far from well but answered clearly all the irritating and maddening questions that were put to her.

But a new tree shall spring from the roots of the old, And many a blossom its leaves shall unfold, Cheering, gladdening, With joy maddening, For its boughs shall be laden with apples of gold.

She shrugged her shoulders carelessly and glanced out of the window of her carand to be ignored by such a personas this grubby painterit was maddening!

She thought of him as "grubby," whatever that meant, because she did not like him, but it was even more maddening for her to think of Olga Tcherny's portrait, which, in spite of her flippant remarks, she had been forced to admit revealed a knowledge of feminine psychology that had excited her amazement and admiration.

There was nothing but to sit still, tormented by maddening regret.

Smiling as it was this day, unchangeably smiling, she fancied a time when it would not smile, when its passive eventless monotony would be maddening.

"You're maddening, Bess," he flamed.

"Positively maddening!" "Perhaps," evenly.

More maddening than an execration, than physical menace itself, was that passionless, ignoring isolation to the other man.

The distances of infinity are maddening.

Down in the glowing torpor of the Santilla flats, where the Lamar plantations lay, Ben had slept off as maddening hunger for life and freedom as this of to-day; but here, with the winter air stinging every nerve to life, with the perpetual mystery of the mountains terrifying his bestial nature down, the strength of the man stood up: groping, blind, malignant, it may be; but whose fault was that?

During those maddening days and nights Billy added a fresh crease to the group between his eyebrows and deepened the old ones, and Dill rode three horses thin galloping back and forth between the ranch and the herd, in helpless anxiety.

The sight was maddening.

Vex not his wounds with rhetoric, nor the stale Worn truths, that are but maddening mockeries To him whose grief outmasters all replies.

madding 49 occurrences

Ida glanced at him, and returned his bow with a slight inclination of her head, and then looked away as if she had done all that could be demanded of her; and it was with a faint surprise, perceptible in her face, that she heard Howard say, in his slow, and rather drawling voice: "There is a conservatory behind that glass door, Miss Heron; it is not very far from the madding crowd, but it must be cooler than here.

O, how my spleen is tickled with this sport The madding Senses make about the woods!

So now's the time that I would gladly meet These madding Senses that abus'd me thus; What, haunt me like an owl?

Hardy became noted, however, when he published Far from the Madding Crowd, a book which, when it appeared anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine (1874), was generally attributed to George Eliot, for the simple reason that no other novelist was supposed to be capable of writing it.

In Far From the Madding Crowd, for example, Gabriel Oak wished to have Bathsheba know "his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odor in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feelings in the coarse meshes of language.

The upland with its shepherd's hut, the sheep-shearing barn, the harvest storm, the hollow of ferns, and the churchyard with its dripping water spout are part of the wonderful landscape in Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and The Woodlanders (1886-1887) deserve mention with Far from the Madding Crowd and The Return of the Native as comprising the best four novels of the so-called Wessex stories.

Hardy's most enjoyable novel is Far from the Madding Crowd.

[Byron]; and homeless near a thousand homes I stood [Wordsworth]; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife [Gray]; makes a solitude and calls it peace

When Lucy decks with Flowers her swelling Breast, And on her Elbow leans, dissembling Rest, Unable to refrain my madding Mind, Nor Sleep nor Pasture worth my Care I find.

A COTSWOLD VILLAGE Far from the Madding CrowdAn Old Farmhouse and Its OccupantsThe Manor HouseInscription on PorchInterior of the HouseThe GardenA Fairy SpringThe Village ClubLabouring FolkVillage PoliticsThe Trout StreamFlowing SeawardsVillage ArchitectureThe Charm of AntiquityThe Spirit of SacrificeWayside CrossesTithe Barns.

The village is not a hundred miles from London, yet "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife."

"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife

19 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874).

"From me his madding mind is start, And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen.

Eight miles away from the town is the village of Puddletown, known as "Weatherbury" in Far from the Madding Crowd.

Though I am not so peerly proud As men of higher station, So handsome that the madding crowd Collects in admiration; And have, perhaps, too great a store Of sandy hair and freckles, I've mortgages and bonds galore, And muchly many shekels.

[Illustration] WHERE AND HOW TO SPEND A HAPPY DAY, WEATHER PERMITTING, OF COURSE.Go to Sevenoaks; lovely drive, see Knole Park and House, drive back viâ Farninghamprettiest place possible, and one that the broken-hearted Tupman might have chosen for his retreat from the madding crowdto Dartford, where dine at the ancient hostelrie called "The Bull." Recommended by the Punch faculty, the Bull and no mistake.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.

At the end of the first act he has the following simile upon sedition: Sedition, thou art up; and, in the ferment, To what may not the madding populace, Gathered together for they scarce know what, Now loud proclaiming their late, whisper'd grief, Be wrought at length?

The scrupulous cleanliness of the little room, shut off from sight and sound of the madding crowd, is in itself conducive to direct one's thoughts from the world.

Grim Minos, with unconscious tears, Melts into mercy as he hears The serpents in Megara's hair, Kiss, as they wreathe enamour'd there; All harmless rests the madding thong; From the torn breast the Vulture mute Flies, scared before the charmèd lute Lull'd into sighing from their roar The dark waves woo the listening shore Listening the Thracian's silver song!

" Then schemes I framed more calmly, when and how 590 The madding factions might be tranquillised, And how through hardships manifold and long The glorious renovation would proceed.

Yours obediently, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD.

Do we say   maddening   or  madding