brain-sick

"They can go hang, along with all the brain-sick, world-sick fools that wrote them," I replied.

CHAPTER XXXIV 2010

Thinkest thou there has been no offensive assumption in laving aside the character of a mother and a wife, and adopting that of one of those brain-sick female fools, who, like the bravoes of the other sex, sacrifice every thing that is honourable or useful to a frantic and insane affectation of courage?

Count Robert of Paris 2008

The [1895] civilians of old set guardians over such brain-sick prodigals, as they did over madmen, to moderate their expenses, that they should not so loosely consume their fortunes, to the utter undoing of their families.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

I hold them worthy to be laughed at; a company of brain-sick dizzards, as mad as [424] Orestes and Athamas, that they may go ride the ass, and all sail along to the Anticyrae, in the ship of fools for company together.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[199] Lactantius, in his book of wisdom, proves them to be dizzards, fools, asses, madmen, so full of absurd and ridiculous tenets, and brain-sick positions, that to his thinking never any old woman or sick person doted worse.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Now what these brain-sick heretics once broach, and impostors set on foot, be it never so absurd, false, and prodigious, the common people will follow and believe.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

For indeed who is not a fool, melancholy, mad? — [178] Qui nil molitur inepte, who is not brain-sick?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

“The events of this night would make us, in the eyes of our subjects, as mad as this poor brain-sick gentleman himself — for we ascribe his conduct to no malice — should we choose this moment to do him grace.”

Kenilworth 2004

Some two hours since I was waked by the screams of that poor brain-sick Lady Varney, whom her husband was forcing away.

Kenilworth 2004

He added that he had been told by Robert Valbringue, who lately passed that way in his return from Africa, that a sixth kind was to fly hither out of hand, which he called capus-hawks, more grum, vinegar-faced, brain-sick, froward, and loathsome than any kind whatsoever in the whole island.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002