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  • When you get a man conceited 'to that extent and so one-idea'd as that, you must realize he started what is a new religion in Germany.

    Dictators and Democrats 1940

  • The one-idea'd man will surely be there, if his one idea was not a spiritual one.

    The Vital Message 1919

  • But of what avail until that moment, would any but an armed intervention have been with so vindictive and one-idea'd a man, and what manner of fool would not Cesare have been to have spent his strength in battle with his condottieri for the purpose of befriending a people who had never shown themselves other than his own enemies?

    The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • But of what avail until that moment, would any but an armed intervention have been with so vindictive and one-idea'd a man, and what manner of fool would not Cesare have been to have spent his strength in battle with his condottieri for the purpose of befriending a people who had never shown themselves other than his own enemies?

    The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912

  • But, unfortunately, there is among them, as in other professions, a fair sprinkling of one-idea'd fanatics, ignorant of the commonest conventions of official relation, and content with nothing if they cannot get everything their own way.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • "If only one could make him see straight," said Diana, when they spoke of it afterwards, "instead of with the warped vision of a one-idea'd fanatic."

    The Rhodesian Gertrude Page 1897

  • But, unfortunately, there is among them, as in other professions, a fair sprinkling of one-idea'd fanatics, ignorant of the commonest conventions of official relation, and content with nothing if they cannot get everything their own way.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

  • It seemed that the fierce German Sea might beat the life from him, but with all its strength it was unable to tear this one-idea'd man from the woman whom he loved.

    The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales 1894

  • It seemed that the fierce German Sea might beat the life from him, but with all its strength it was unable to tear this one-idea'd man from the woman whom he loved.

    The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • The one-idea'd man will surely be there, if his one idea was not a spiritual one.

    The Vital Message Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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