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The entire history of humanity, replete with tortures, ecstasies, and massacres, is the history of raving, demented creatures.
It is also quite true that Lowe became demented with fear in case the shooting should have sanguinary and far-reaching effects.
He had been feeling indulgent toward his demented brother until his more than doubtful attitude toward ten thousand pounds.
Five months after admission, slight convulsions developed, after which the patient was more dull and demented; he became bedridden.
Anne had recovered her composure, and had embarked upon a series of sentimental reminiscences which bade fair to drive him demented.
Insane, distracted, mad, lunatic, demented, delirious, crack-brained, cracked, crazed, out of one's head, out of one's senses, out of one's wits.
Little wonder, for if a fiend could embody itself in a woman, this demented creature would leave nothing for the imagination.
They were now fleeing through the woods like men demented, or crouched behind trees, perfectly paralyzed with uncertainty and fright.
All over Dunmore's scowling visage the enamel was cracking; he paced the carpet like one demented, chattering and scratching at the air.
Reason, and not enthusiasm, is the true guide of man; he is only inspired when he is demented by some distemper or possession.
What have you done injurious towards my ward, that you so linger upon the street, and to my queries, but gaze like one demented?
Frequently people, otherwise demented, display a wonderful tenacity of purpose and clearness of mind when they have a definite object in view.
He is confined to bed, has become very much demented, and shows very marked speech defect, so that he is almost unintelligible.
Now I answer you: because I was mad, demented, besotted, crazed, or I most assuredly should never have dreamed of such a thing.
The demented person is not conscious of loss of memory, but applies wrong names to persons, and serenely thinks he is right.
Judy thought he might be lying somewhere, insensible from fright, and she ran up and down feeling into niches, as one demented.
The sprightly terrier went clean demented; the sullen one stood with thoughtful earnestness waiting for a chance to catch the start.
Never should that demented tyrant cross the threshold of her studio and wreak his hatred and revenge upon the fallen hero.
He remained good-natured and jolly; nor was there any change in his euphoria until he had become physically weaker and more generally demented.
The Germans left alive in the trenches, half demented with fright, surrounded by a welter of dead and dying men, mostly surrendered.
The senile demented person does not realize his condition, and if there is any mental power left he cherishes delusions or false beliefs.
There seems to be no sudden break between our most sober every-day recognitions of familiar objects and the wildest hallucinations of the demented.
The Squire and his friend Jacobson were like two demented wild Indians, uncertain what was best to be done to entrap the villains.
He collected butterflies; and it may be imagined what the American public thought of him when they did not think he was demented.
And then the poor demented creature of a drunken doctor contrived again to get hold of drink, and was far more outrageous this time.
As you enter the vast hall your heart gives a leap, your blood tingles, and you stand still on the threshold like one demented.
He gave a great jump like a startled fawn, and threw up his arms and stared like one demented into the tree over their heads.
This demented man believed himself to be a divinity, so that obeisance to his image was not merely an act of allegiance, but of worship.
It appeared that one of the seamen, going into the spy's temporary cell, had been suddenly and violently attacked by the demented man.
Time and chance have gone demented, fate has turned comic poet, society has become its own parody, everybody is the irrepressible caricature of himself.
The room was cramped, the men crowded and taken unawares; the old fury whirled and shrieked and chopped like a thing demented.
When they arrived at the stairs of the tower, Paul begged the tribune to be allowed to speak to the angry and demented crowd.
Once I described my misgivings to a physician in Germany, saying that in believing myself to be another I feared at times that I was demented.
A sordid, demented mania for speculation had invaded all classes, and refined and delicate women trafficked in pounds of sugar or yards of cloth.
Then he woke with a start, and struggling up to a sitting position, and staring at me one like one demented, he exclaimed, "What has happened?"
We then beheld all the men and women running about, deeply afflicted with grief, their senses gone, and resembling people that are demented.'
The chief charmer now advances, commencing to step round the ring with occasional beats on his tambourine, rolling his eyes and looking demented.
Well, he must have been senile and demented, to bring this pair of snakes into his home, because he felt an obligation to his dead brother's memory.
It seemed as though some demented creator with a perverted sense of humor had attempted to mock man by calling forth monsters in his image.
He declined coming to the supper-table, saying he was unwell, and shutting himself in his room, paced the floor till midnight, half demented.
Kraepelin, for example, deals with four: the demented, depressive, expansive, and agitated forms, but remarks that the division is merely convenient for exposition.
"That money," said he, "comes out of the pocket of a poor, demented girl, and I would rather starve than swindle her in this manner."
Regardless of what this obviously demented bottle thought it was up to, it had no right to deplete his private reserves in this callous fashion.
Former acquaintances of his pursued him with jeers and stones, as one demented, so wretched was he to look upon after his sojourn in the cave.
It was perhaps such a thought that had fired in her those somber, almost hopeless, almost demented ardors, when she was in my arms?
The move had every appearance of an attack of one demented; but before Seymour could grapple with him the lack of hostile intent was made manifest.
She showed a calm front to his demented cries, and even grew accustomed to his insulting epithets, taking him for what he was, a child.
Was her master demented through sorrow that he so challenged public censure, and was willing to cast dishonor upon the name of his only child?
He wandered round the room for more than a minute like one demented, while the girl sat watching him with a hard, fearsome look in her eyes.
Now, of late they've been quartering him with a poor, demented sufferer down there who walks a good deal in his sleep, and it wears upon him.
Old Granger, finding himself baffled, flung down the rifle upon the ground and strode off up the road, muttering wildly to himself like one demented.
And several minutes later, chuckling to himself in a half demented fashion, he opened the firewall door and went in to let the helium do the job.
The brown-skinned Berber sailors endeavored to lower them, and blue-coated officers vainly attempted to keep them back and to preserve order among the demented people.
Every one pitied the poor demented boy, and could not see unmoved how he clung to affection and to hope, though bereft of reason and of recollection.
Four days had elapsed since Marguerite had seen the vessel disappear; and four terrible days she had spent, roaming like one demented over her island prison.
He obviously considered me to be even more demented than the rest of my countrymen, but since the fare would be a substantial one, he tackled the job.
He strode a pace or two like one demented; turned, snarled out a sudden shocking laugh, and came close up again to the trembling, but still confident wretch.
From the direction in which he and the bystanders looked, came the hum of many voices, and the high, incessant shrieks of one who seemed demented.
One father had two sons grow up strong and vigorous, mentally and physically, while a third son was weak, irresolute, fretful, suspicious and half demented.
Rocks were rent, mountains fell, buildings and their contents were shattered, trees swayed like reeds, animals ran about demented; men thought the judgment had come.
His eyes staring at nothing, his mouth open and frothing, and breathing as one in a cold bath, he went forward demented, while Dan toiled after him.
Anon, you find your demented hen in the loft of the barn hovering over a door knob and trying by patience and industry to hatch out a hotel.
This made her tug and strain again like a demented creature, until she sank exhausted, but not free, in the mud at the foot of the snag.
His father, on hearing that he had taken the Lindsay school for a year, had written him a testy, amazed letter, asking him if he were demented.
My theory was that she did not understand insanity, and so her inability to follow the illogical thought processes of the demented man frightened her.
It was bad enough to have muffed a chance to add glory to the I.S.P., not to speak of having the rest of the crew think him demented.
Darkness was mercifully covering this poor demented Indian woman, overcome by the burdens of her life, aged without being venerable, perhaps made hideous by want and sorrow.
In a path, she went doggedly ahead of her own accord, as before a fair wind; but once on the turf or among heather, and the brute became demented.
Often, while speaking, a vast contrition brought him to such floods of tears that, breaking off his sermon, he would flee anywhere for refuge, like one demented.
Like one demented she swept by them and, eluding their clutching hands, fled out of that cavern, back to the sight of heaven and the moonlit seas.
They fail in this to exhibit their usual shrewdness by deriving an argument from an expression used by him when in what they say was a demented condition.
And in the dance of the poor demented creature at the close the full beauty and power and meaning of the drama were disclosed in a few incisive strokes.
She fell on my neck and clung like one demented, till a gathering frown on the face of my spouse warned me of the necessity of repelling her embraces.
Betty was too much astonished to make any answer, she only smoothed down her apron very vigorously, and gazed at her master as if he were slightly demented.
Poor, dear old gentleman, he was perfectly guileless; he thoroughly believed in all he said, and I am quite sure was quite happy in his demented notions of coming grandeur.
When Leo had discovered that half the load had torn itself from its fastenings, and had been swallowed up by yawning depths below he went suddenly demented.
Moved by my vehement voice and uncontrollable tears, he paused in his work of destruction, and stood steadfastly eyeing me, or rather blankly staring at me, like one demented.
It seems to me that our own civilization is ill already, slightly demented perhaps, and liable, like a man in delirium, to do things which tend to aggravate the malady.
It was something terrible to her to know that poor demented creatures lay pining, chained and ill-treated, in dungeons; knowing no will but the caprice of their keepers.
Witless though the demented lad might be, in build and strength he was no match for Andrew, should he be seized with frenzy and endeavor to attack his guide.
The young French heroes, refusing to cease fighting, refusing to accept quarter, bleeding, staggering, half demented with exhaustion, weakness, and hopeless despair, were shot down to a man.
Trip asked for the original letter sent from him, and found that the typewriter had indeed substituted these demented hieroglyphics for the sentences really dictated to her.
Lucia herself enters to confirm his awful news; she is still in bridal attire and in her demented condition believes that Arthur will presently appear for the nuptial ceremony.
They followed each other by hops, on one or both feet, sometimes indulging in the most demented leaps; whilst the bystanders clapped with their palms a more enlivening measure.
Panting and like a man demented, he recoils past the head of the couch, and rushing to the window, draws the curtains and throws the window up for air.
I saw the letters referred to, which contained the grossest misrepresentations, uttering sentiments I never thought of, or, if I had, should not have expressed there, unless demented.
Rocks were rent, mountains fell, buildings and their contents were shattered, trees swayed like reeds, animals were scared, and ran about demented; men thought the judgment had come.
Demented and rambling, I imagined that my hand was grasping the Crescent of Glorious Wonders, the lost talisman that would restore me to happiness with the woman I loved.
Clearly the poor wretch was demented, but he would have liked to have put some money into her own hand, lest some unscrupulous person should rob her of his gift.
I have received a letter written by a girl who is far-away, imprisoned in a lonely villa near her demented father, who complains of her lot and seeks to change it.
It may excite a kind of civil war of minds, and would perhaps end in fatal excesses, unless the king and his ministers were as wise as the fanatics were demented.
And within an hour, having cunningly awaited his opportunity, the demented creature had leaped upon him from behind, exactly as a wolf might, and fastened his teeth in Dick's neck.
Your poor niece was like one demented; the color in her face faded, she was no longer like the beautiful ripe apricot, with the soft skin that made you long to bite it.
Beyond the windows, vaguely seen at moments through the clouds of sand, the outlines of the palm leaves wavered, descended, rose, darted from side to side, like hands of the demented.
With a few big jumps he reached the street, and hastily mounting his truck, drove rapidly home, unmindful of the public observation his demented look and unusual haste produced.
It gave the much-needed opportunity to talk quietly to many who were demented with fear, and to attempt to soothe others whose quiet weeping and wailing was heartbreaking to listen to.
With naked head, and hands outstretched toward the rapidly departing train, and still uttering impotent cries, ran the demented fellow, his reason for the time being entirely gone.
He consented to my accompanying him home, but this seemed less from a desire to see me again than to protest against my having publicly humiliated him by treating him as demented.
It flashed like lightning at night across the demented lover, and lighted up his egotism (suicide, like homicide, is generally a fit of maniacal egotism), even to his eyes blinded by fury.
They might appear as beautiful girls or handsome men and seize unsuspecting victims in deathly embrace or leave them demented and full of grief, or come as birds and suddenly assume awesome shapes.