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  • "Madcap" was now nicknamed "Sainte Aurore" by her profane school-fellows, and she formed the serious desire and intention of becoming a nun.

    Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas

  • The opposite side of the pool was hemmed in by rocks about six feet high, and the direction of the under-current was at once shown by poor old "Madcap" being swept up against this high wall of rock, where she remained paddling with all her might in an upright position.

    Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

  • While I was opening the elk, with the pack all round me licking their lips in expectation, old "Madcap" was jostled by one of the greyhounds, and slipped into a basin among the rocks, which formed an edge of about two feet above the surface.

    Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

  • Other companies, such as Madcap, won't tell you how many employees they have.

    I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson 2008

  • N.B. Remember I shall have nothing to do with Madcap!

    Letter 210 2009

  • Â Madcap adventures ensue as the government moves to put down the rogue Johnny 5.

    Five Eighties Movies Where Nerds Are The Heroes | myFiveBest 2010

  • Still irked about losing the Madcap award for set that year to Trainspotting.

    More background updates! karenhealey 2010

  • * Madcap was the name of a favorite horse of mine who went with us into Wales — T J Ll B

    Letter 210 2009

  • Madcap musicality also underwrites The Concert 2009, Optimum, 15, in which a politically ostracised Russian conductor gathers together a ragtag band of similarly blacklisted players to masquerade as the Bolshoi orchestra and play a one-off gig at the Chatelet theatre in Paris.

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010

  • Madcap slapstick steampunk adventure, with occasional talking cats, and the casual vivisection of every available genre trope.

    i am friend to the undertow i take you in i don't let go matociquala 2007

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