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- noun Plural form of
bedlam .
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Examples
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July 7, 2009 at 9:15 am kitteh hassa wrist rockit and a load ob cramberries an is planning to cause some bedlams
Reddy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Naam – Hoi magistrate, with its unspeakable horrors, would go the way of all our dungeons and bedlams.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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Is not insanity fearfully on the increase, as evidenced by the overcrowded bedlams of the land and the mania for self-destruction?
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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And they did not believe them to be any other than bedlams and mad.
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Surely if the knowledge of Him who came "to preach liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound," were diffused and received here, and were spread with no niggard hand, the prison of the Naam-Hoi magistrate, with its unspeakable horrors, would go the way of all our dungeons and bedlams.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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All the bedlams in creation broken loose could not have made such a scene.
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb 1872
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This frenzy, terrible enough in individuals, had its most disastrous effects when with that peculiar facility of contagion which marks hysterical maladies, it swept through whole villages, transforming them into bedlams filled with unrestrained madmen.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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It is easy to speak or hear the word "hell;" but to analyze its significance and realize it in a sensitive fancy is difficult; and whenever it is done the fruit is madness, as the bedlams of the world are shrieking in testimony at this instant.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Italian Cholera, were, with a few German Doctors, the only creatures whom dastard terror had not driven mad: they descended fearless into all gulfs and bedlams; watched over the pillow of the dying, with help, with counsel and hope; shone as luminous fixed stars, when all else had gone out in chaotic night: honour to them!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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His poor Jesuits, in the late Italian Cholera, were, with a few German Doctors, the only creatures whom dastard terror had not driven mad: they descended fearless into all gulfs and bedlams; watched over the pillow of the dying, with help, with counsel and hope; shone as luminous fixed stars, when all else had gone out in chaotic night: honour to them!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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