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Example sentences for "insane asylum"

  • Suppose they should hunt her up and put her in an insane asylum, just to show the world that it had not been their fault that she had run away from her wedding!

  • She made her escape from the insane asylum.

  • I've thought sometimes, ever since I saw that paper in which they hinted that I was temporarily insane, that they might try to shut me up in an insane asylum.

  • He was healed at Heilsberg, then locked up in an insane asylum at Stuttgart.

  • She had taken refuge in an inn of Strasbourg after escaping from an insane asylum.

  • In this city he encountered his former ranking officer, shorn of all his possessions, and just emerging from an insane asylum.

  • It was life or death, or, a thousand times worse, an insane asylum.

  • In the first place, there is very little chance of a come-back, for who will believe men who have ever been shut up in an insane asylum?

  • My three years in an insane asylum convinced me that, beyond doubt, a man contracts a mental ailment just as he contracts a physical disease on the outside.

  • The din was horrible, and I am convinced that in the course of time even a sane man kept in an insane asylum will be mad; those who are a little delusional will go violently insane.

  • Insane Asylum, an, the first public building erected by the State of California, 190.

  • He is sent there in the hope that he will stay there, just as happened ten years before with another young man, who in Tver refused to do military service and who was tortured in an insane asylum until he gave in.

  • I visited an insane asylum at Killarney, which is an enormous building, well arranged and equipped with all modern conveniences, under the direction of Dr.

  • He spent most of his life in Dublin, died there, was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral by the side of a woman whose life he wrecked, and left his money to found an insane asylum which is still in existence.

  • His will, written before his mind gave way, was itself a satire, and appropriately left his slender fortune to found an insane asylum.

  • During the preceding year I had drawn it out of my uncle that my father was dead, and my mother an inmate of an insane asylum, and that no property was left for me by my parents.

  • You told me my father left nothing for me; that my mother was in an insane asylum.

  • All my relatives, without exception, who have heard my own statement from my own lips, now unite in this one opinion, that Mr. Packard has had no right nor occasion for putting me into an insane asylum.

  • From my own observations in an insane asylum, I am fully satisfied that Mr. Field is correct in his premises, and I must also allow that he has a right of opinion in its application.

  • When he was preparing to put me into an Insane Asylum, I asked him why he was so very anxious to put the stigma of insanity upon me, when he knew I was not insane?

  • Their interpretations of discipline are considered as delusions of persecution, their outbursts of temper as typical maniacal outbreaks, and consequently they are shipped off to an insane asylum.

  • They become absolutely unmanageable, neglect their work and duties, and finally have to be transferred to an insane asylum.

  • In other words, should these individuals with marked and incorrectible criminalistic tendencies, be, so to speak, licensed to ignore the law in its entirety by giving them the protection of an insane asylum?

  • One sees how in many cases the transfer from one prison to another, to an observation station, to an insane asylum, puts an end to the process.

  • Gosh, but I was glad to get out of the White Chapel district, and I kept looking back for fear one of the men or women would slit me up the back with a butcher knife, and laugh like an insane asylum inmate.

  • The people have nervous prostration to start on, start a campaign on champagne, wind up on absinthe, and after the votes are counted go to an insane asylum.

  • The people look either heart-broken or snarly, like the people confined in an insane asylum at home.

  • He spent almost a whole year in an insane asylum.

  • Fear drove some, as it had Yelizar Titov, into an insane asylum.

  • Our Department has become like an insane asylum--that Sasha is such a coarse creature, astonishing.

  • Nobody in the whole world would think of looking for her in an insane asylum.

  • As soon as those men in the front seat explained that she was a crazy person being taken to an insane asylum, nobody would believe anything she said.

  • How could they commit anybody to an insane asylum?


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