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  • Southern gentlemen to propose to ladies under extraordinary circumstances and in Bedlamite language, is sufficient to account.

    Current Literature 1864

  • Morsfield was a kind of Bedlamite to her; amusing in his antics, and requiring to be manoeuvred and eluded while he lived: once dead, just a tombstone, of interest only to his family.

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Morsfield was a kind of Bedlamite to her; amusing in his antics, and requiring to be manoeuvred and eluded while he lived: once dead, just a tombstone, of interest only to his family.

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • Morsfield was a kind of Bedlamite to her; amusing in his antics, and requiring to be manoeuvred and eluded while he lived: once dead, just a tombstone, of interest only to his family.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Almost at once He stepped up to the sill himself, his jacket flared And fluttered up from his shirt as he came down, Air filling up the legs of his gray trousers- Like Hart Crane's Bedlamite, "shrill shirt ballooning..."

    100th Anniversary Recalls Horror of New York Triangle Fire 2011

  • Almost at once He stepped up to the sill himself, his jacket flared And fluttered up from his shirt as he came down, Air filling up the legs of his gray trousers- Like Hart Crane's Bedlamite, "shrill shirt ballooning..."

    100th Anniversary Recalls Horror of New York Triangle Fire 2011

  • Stop prattling like a damned Bedlamite and do something.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Almost at once He stepped up to the sill himself, his jacket flared And fluttered up from his shirt as he came down, Air filling up the legs of his gray trousers- Like Hart Crane's Bedlamite, "shrill shirt ballooning..."

    100th Anniversary Recalls Horror of New York Triangle Fire 2011

  • Stop prattling like a damned Bedlamite and do something.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Stop prattling like a damned Bedlamite and do something.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

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  • In haste, I bade Henry Goose a good day. I fancy he is a Bedlamite.

    bedlamite. /ˈbɛdləˌmaɪt/ noun. 1. (archaic) a lunatic; insane person

    Bedlamite | Define Bedlamite at Dictionary.com

    www.dictionary.com/browse/bedlamite

    January 29, 2018