Luckily for his reputation for sentiment, he mistook "ecstatic," a word he had never heard before, for "erratic;" and recollecting sundry roving maniacs that he had seen, he answered promptly "Despair, out and out.

When Holman approached the old maniac he ruffled up like an angry porcupine, and he screeched out his opinion concerning people who would not mind their own business.

If you were told your house was on fire you would hardly think of calling the man a maniac for informing you of it, even if he should use a tone of voice and gestures somewhat earnest and impassioned.

Rum did that!" Looking out of your window at some one who, intoxicated to madness, goes through the street, brandishing his fist, blaspheming God, a howling, defying, shouting, reeling, raving, and foaming maniac, say to your son, "Look; that man was once a child like you."

Let us not follow the poor maniac through his wanderings.

It was repression and wilful frustration of reasonable desires which kept me a seeming maniac and made seeming maniacs of others.

Men left the maniac to give battle to the other fury.

The peculiarity consisted in the confluence of two different keys, though apparently repelling each other, into the music and governing principles of the same dream; horror, such as possesses the maniac, and yet, by momentary transitions, grief, such as may be supposed to possess the dying mother when leaving her infant children to the mercies of the cruel.

When they returned the realm to overawe, They prayed those maniacs to quit cave and den, And use their old good customs once again; But these made answer with fist, tooth, and claw: So that the wise men were obliged to rule Themselves like lunatics to shun grim death, Seeing the biggest maniac now was king.

They say, those who are bitten by the tarantula, and get dancing mad, think the wondering crowd about them raving maniacs.

I had seen her a raving maniac.

"The king of the world!" shouted the maniac, still advancing with a menacing air, and so near the wagon by this time that he might almost have hit Percival with his axe.

Thus spoke the maniac, while above he gazed, And his pale hands beseechingly upraised; Then on the viewless wind he swiftly sprung, And far below his senseless form was flung; A thin white spray told where he met the wave, And battling surges thunder o'er his grave!

I sprang to my feet a raving maniac, I wanted to fly; I knocked against the table; it fell.

Begin earlybegin sometimes before he is awaketo get things ready, and keep them going so that Ned won't start out, a reckless, emotional maniac before nightfall!" Oldfield paused, struck by his own earnestness and plain speaking, and somewhat scared.

This promise had the desired effect; and the priest followed it up by advising the maniac to go to a good physician, to avoid solitude, to work hard, to read his Bible, and remember the comfortable declarations of which he had been just reminded, and if he was in any doubt or anxiety, to go to his parish minister.

"Sharks, my boy; sharks!" VIII That evening, after proper deliberation, "Célestine," Miss Hugonin commanded, "get out that little yellow dress with the little red bandanna handkerchiefs on it; and for heaven's sake, stop pulling my hair out by the roots, unless you want a raving maniac on your hands, Célestine!"