Three miles from the lake, the hills approach each other, and the little river comes plunging down through a gorge, over shelving rocks, and around great boulders, as if mad with the obstructions piled up in its way.

" "You ain't mad at mama, baby?

Because I'm mad, Mad as a Tygress rob'd of her dear Young.

Oh, I am mad for the happy hourcome, say the word, 'tis but inclining thy Head a little thus, thy pretty Eyes down, and thy Cheeks all Blushes, and fetching a long Sighthuswithdowhat you please at the end

It's no good mincing matters, old boy, the woman is crazy mad about methere you've got it straightin a nutshell.

Isn't your true-born American always itching to hold a meeting about something?" "Don't know about that," said McGinty, "but I do know there's more things happens in a minute to make a man mad in Alaska, than happens in a year anywhere else."

We are all a little mad on some one subject, I have heard it said; well, the Grand Duke Michael is very mad on the subject of diamonds.

In days when Powers driven mad by military ambition tear up treaties as scraps of paper, General Allenby observed the spirit as well as the letter of the Hague Convention, and found it possible to apply to occupied territory the principles of administration as laid down in the Manual of Military Law.

If Germany was afflicted by a kind of madness or divine dementia previous to the present war, Britain can by no means throw that in her teeth, for Britain certainly went mad over Mafeking; and it was sheer madness that in 1870 threw the people of France and Napoleon IIIutterly unready for war as they were, and over a most trifling quarrelinto the arms of Bismarck for the fulfilment of his schemes.

The mad of Mark Antony for Cleopatra was the cause of his downfall.

He said to Sir William Scott, 'The age is running mad after innovation; all the business of the world is to be done in a new way; men are to be hanged in a new way; Tyburn itself is not safe from the fury of innovation.'

15061555 Philip being dead, and his wife, Joanna of Spain, having become mad from grief at his loss, after nearly losing her senses from jealousy during his life, the regency of the Netherlands reverted to Maximilian, who immediately named his daughter Margaret stadtholderess of the country.

He has gone mad like the rest of them.

To-day upon the golden beach No gold-haired guardian maidens stand, No apples ripen out of reach, And none are mad to land.

It sounds a good deal more mad than scared.

The latter was easily aroused, and when Max whispered a word of caution in his ear, he knew enough not to cry out; though of course the blood must have started bounding like mad through his arteries.

They broke into a simultaneous cry, and plunged like mad into the thicket.

Truly, if Jack did not go mad under the strain he would be very apt to do as the colonel wished.

My word was to them as the shining of a candle into a dark, dirty place, and the sight of their foulness made them mad against me.

"To think of my being such a fool as to show mad before those girls.

He's mad beyond cure, mad.

You will probably go mad within a reasonable time,or, if you are a man, run off and die with your head on a curb-stone, in Melbourne or San Francisco,or, if you are a woman, quarrel and break your heart, or turn into a pale, jointed petrifaction that moves about as if it were alive, or play some real life-tragedy or other.

You'd enjoy seeing the oranges running like mad down a sloping trough, pretending they're all equal, till the boys watching spy out the bruised ones that are sneaking along, and pitch 'em away before they can say 'knife.'

THE GUINEA-HEN [Gone quite mad among the multitude of COCKS now filling the kitchen-garden with their extraordinary head-gear aigrettes, and plumes and helmets, double and triple combs.]

As a girl the countess used to ride fast horses like mad along the rocky western coast.