18 examples of monomaniac in sentences

And thus I shall soon become a monomaniac if I do not discover some remedy.

Madman N. madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite^, candidate for Bedlam, raver^, madcap, crazy; energumen^; automaniac^, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac &c (low spirits);; crank, Tom o'Bedlam. dreamer &c 515; rhapsodist, seer, highflier^, enthusiast, fanatic, fanatico [Sp.]; exalte [Fr.]; knight errant, Don Quixote.

" With a monomaniac, conversation is apt to limit itself to monologue; so, while Henry was greatly interested in this odd talk, it left him but little to say.

The human mind is a nicely balanced and extremely complex machine, and when thrown a little off the balance can be made to believe almost anything, as we see in the case of some poor monomaniacs, who have fancied that they were made of all sorts of thingsglass and porcelain, and such like.

He is certainly a monomaniac; no other conclusion could save him from an indictment for perjury.

Belle, if you keep on at this rate you will be a monomaniac on the temperance question.

He had, in fact, come to be a sort of monomaniac, who delighted in annoying his former rival, and in haunting his footsteps as if he were his evil shadow.

He showed this by giving his impression of another person of the same general mode of life,that A.B. was "a monomaniac about everything."

Morrison in his turn gave an exclamation which seemed the vent of long-stored exasperation, and said with heat: "Look here, Page, you're getting to be a perfect monomaniac on the subject!

It was not strange that she had great success; for she started, a monomaniac in philanthropy, from the summit of personal independence.

Mr. Richard Hardie restored the £14,000, and a few years later died a monomaniac, believing himself penniless when he possessed £60,000.

Who, posing as the friend of Pax, Yet was not noticeably lax In the true Teuton faith which hacks Its way along; forbidden tracks, Marks bloody dates on almanacs And holds all promises as wax; Breeding, where once we knew Hans Sachs, A race of monomaniacs....

" "Oh, heavens!" said Manuel, "but I am embracing a monomaniac.

Lalor was, in fact, a monomaniac, but this Mitchell seems to have failed to perceive.

Monomaniacs, 78.

To such a condition may monomaniacs come by continually brooding over one idea.

Unquestionably, she was a monomaniac; these overmastering ideas about the authorship of Shakspeare's plays, and the deep political philosophy concealed beneath the surface of them, had completely thrown her off her balance; but at the same time they had wonderfully developed her intellect, and made her what she could not otherwise have become.

The story of Henry Durie is dark enough, but could anyone stand beside the grave of that sodden monomaniac and not respect him?

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