madcaps

Within minutes my forearms were aching from holding the brakes, so I just let go and joined the madcaps.

Fancy a go at the Tour de France? 2010

He was passing down a mean street, when from an alley close at hand some shouts of revelry arose, and there came straggling forth a dozen madcaps, whooping and calling to each other, who, parting noisily, took different ways and dispersed in smaller groups.

Barnaby Rudge 2007

Europe than the Republican propaganda; it was more feasible and less extravagant than the hideous doctrines of indefinite liberty proclaimed by the young madcaps who assume the character of heirs of the Convention.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

In those days and by comparison with the slow Dutch, the British looked like tearing, merry madcaps.

Scenes of Old Batavia « Far Outliers 2004

The biographies are outstanding portraits of various madcaps and monsters, condensing whole lives into a few pages.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

A few hundred madcaps in arms in Dublin, and the British Empire ranging to strike.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

“Was you one of them madcaps swum to the Muglins?”

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

A few hundred madcaps in arms in Dublin, and the British Empire ranging to strike.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

I have little doubt that, in early life, when running, like an unbroken colt, about the neighborhood of Stratford, he was to be found in the company of all kinds of odd anomalous characters; that he associated with all the madcaps of the place, and was one of those unlucky urchins, at mention of whom old men shake their heads, and predict that they will one day come to the gallows.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

“Was you one of them madcaps swum to the Muglins?”

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002