maddening

• There are mysterious and maddening stoppages--maddening, because in communication-trench stoppages it is quite impossible to find out what is the matter. —  The First Hundred Thousand
• Now he had been as close to life in its most intense form, and the effect of it was maddening--a call that seemed to make further waiting worse than death He fell asleep at last with a part of the pillow stuffed into his mouth to keep his sobs from being heard in the next room XIV The thing had him by the throat. —  The Soul of a Child
• Could she discern the hand of merciful warning in this fortuitous meeting with a captured culprit; which so vividly recalled the maddening incidents of her return to X---, when the sheriff had hurried her from the car? —  At the Mercy of Tiberius
• There's the maddening, mysterious question. —  The Garden Party and Other Stories
• The thought was maddening, and Dantes threw himself furiously down on his straw. —  The Count of Monte Cristo

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