And yet that letter I had read, dictated in secret most probably because her hands were not free, was certainly not the outpourings of a madwoman.

Gloria's shriek rose like a madwoman's; Brodie's thick laughter was its sinister echo.

"You talk like a madwoman," he said, hoarsely.

In a passion of despair, she lost her senses for a time and like a madwoman fought, shrieking, biting, kicking, clawing, scratching.... With returning lucidity she found herself, panting and dishevelled, arms pinned to her sides, struggling on for all that, being hustled by some half a dozen men across a narrow sidewalk of uneven flagstones.

In a fit of passion the foster-mother told her that her own mother was a madwoman in an asylum many miles away.

Basilio, who is ignorant of Elias's identity, helps him to build a funeral pyre, on which his corpse and the madwoman's are to be burned.

Charles, at fifteen, seemed scarcely twelve, and he had the infantine intelligence of a child of five, resembling in an extraordinary degree his great-great-grandmother, Aunt Dide, the madwoman at the Tulettes.

The nurse, who had orders never to quit her charge, happened just now to be absent, and the only occupants of the room were the madwoman, sitting rigid in her armchair at one side of the table, and the boy, sitting on a chair on the opposite side, absorbed in cutting out his pictures.

And now, at the age of 104 years, she lived here as if forgotten by the world, a quiet madwoman with an ossified brain, with whom insanity might remain stationary for an indefinite length of time without causing death.

But the madwoman did not seem to hear.

She was a stout, vigorous girl, attached especially to the service of the madwoman.

For many years past she had taken a keen interest in the madwoman's health, amazed to see her lasting so long, and furious with her for persisting in living so far beyond the common term of life, until she had become a very prodigy of longevity.

" The boy raised his eyes to the madwoman's face, and both looked at each other.

And he still slept, with the divinely calm look of a cherub, not even conscious of the life that was escaping from him; and the madwoman continued to look at him, with an air of increasing interest, but without terror, amused, rather, her attention engaged by this, as by the flight of the big flies, which her gaze often followed for hours.

A loud cry from the madwoman, a terrified call would have sufficed.

Her black eyes shone like a madwoman's.

Next day she inquired for the prince, but her inquiry was thought so absurd that she was confined as a madwoman.

I believe she really thought I was a harmless madwoman, and that her master had a right to shut me up in that room.

Isabeau found her a madwoman.

Boulduc and I looked at one another, and I immediately withdrew from the bed and from that madwoman, with whom I was on no sort of terms.

My voice was like a madwoman's, and it must have sounded far on that still air.

"Wait here, and be silent," I said, and ran "like a madwoman," as they told me long after, for the flickering lights.