It is the most ghastly, the most horrible form of torture that could hurry a sane man into his grave or into a madhouse.

I have not the book; for the man is flown, whither I know not,to Hades or a madhouse.

So Doc rattled about from penitentiary to prison and from prison to madhouse and out again, constantly taking appeals and securing writs of habeas corpus, and feeling mildly resentful, but not particularly so, that people should be so interfering with his business.

In a city of the Far West, wrote an eloquent paragraph writer, a pale face, once divinely beautiful, was often seen at the barred window of a madhouse, and eyes that had once looked too tenderly into those of the Nickelville Solomon stared wildly at the palm-trees in the asylum grounds.

But we must cherish it, or accept the hideous alternative that this is, after all, in very truth the madhouse of the universe.

The bow is stretched all the time, and the nation is afflicted with a dreadful seriousness that suggests the madhouse by its lack of humour and gaiety.

" "Suppose I tell him he's in a madhouse?" said the old man, laughing, and thereby showing some yellow fangs, which by no means improved his appearance.

When one enters the yard, one has the impression of entering a madhouse.

If he had gone through the excitement of a Methodist conversion, he would probably have ended his days in a madhouse.

Had he foreseen the sequel, he would doubtless have greatly preferred Siberia, for his wife was a virago, and collaborated with his ill-health to guide him to the madhouse.

John Smith, whom local prejudice sends, not inexcusably, to a madhouse, where he dies, after converting the inmates and instituting a campaign of universal peace.

Mr. Thomas Hardie, the defendant, won the case for Alfred by admitting in the witness-box that his brother Richard had declared that "if you don't put Alfred in a madhouse, I will put you in one.

It is true I was only a madhouse warder, and they probably did not consider it necessary to do so; but I question very much whether Simon Hart, the engineer, would have received any more courtesy at their hands.

Do you not see at once, that, if we permit him to confess his crime, he will insist upon taking himself out of our keeping,commit suicide, get himself sent to the madhouse, or anyhow lose our care and our soothing influence?

Mark my words, they'll both end their days in a madhouse!"

She was very weak in her head, he said, and the doctors would throw no difficulty in his way, if he wanted to put her into a madhouse.

Do you think any man in the last generation out of a madhouse would have done it?

Some said to distant parts, some said to the madhouse, some one thing, some another; but neither she nor the barn was ever seen or spoke to by the folk at Mardykes in life again.

Could a more inverted scheme of things have been devised in a madhouse?

As for Pergami, the idol with the feet of clay, who had clouded her last years in tragedy, he survived for twenty years more to enjoy his honours and his ill-gotten gold; while William Austin, who had masqueraded as a Prince and called Caroline "mother," ended his days, while still a young man, in a madhouse.

Like all Ophelias before (and after) me, I went to the madhouse to study wits astray.

Tell me that the suicides and the convicts, the daughters dragged to shame and the mothers driven to the madhouse as a result of this panic, cannot be charged to anything unfair or dishonourable that you have done.

Well did the word-artist who wrote over the door of the madhouse, "Man can suffer only to the limit, then he shall know peace," understand the wondrous wisdom of his God.

One would think that such things came from the madhouse.

To this madhouse, it can hardly be denied, has Carlyle's intellectual courage brought many at last.