He ridiculed the idea which had been started of conquering Canada, as aninsane project, and useless if accomplished.
The insane project to lay up the American ships in harbor, was defeated by two naval officers, to whom the nation owes perpetual gratitude.
Jefferson had struggled in vain against the unjust insane policy of England.
Appearances were certainly against the boy, and the reader is, perhaps, wondering if he had suddenly become insane or developed into a kleptomaniac.
They have a railway collision, a tank of real water, a buzz saw and two real lunatics in the insane asylum scene.
Panic-stricken, not knowing where to turn, in whom to confide, she went almost insanefrom anxiety and grief.
The first time it happened she thought she would go insane from fright, horror and disgust.
There was a superstitious belief, scarcely yet dead, that a draught of the waters of Loch Maree was a certain cure for any disease,--a notion akin to that which prompted the friends of the insane to take them to Isle Maree.
You'll drive me distracted with your insane folly," rejoined the lady, rising and pushing back her chair with violence.
Sated with slaughter, bloated with crime, the nation reeled like a drunken savage over the ruin it created, and with the insane lust of blood poured forth its armed thousands throughout the whole of Europe.
She had been almost insanesince the intelligence reached her.
That she turned him off on the spot, whereupon he went to the authorities, and lodged some malicious and insane charges against her.
The General was so astonished that he sat motionless, wondering what it was now that the diseased fancy of one whom he still believed to be insane would suggest.
I am insane for having had such wild thoughts as I have had this morning.
There is a law in the state of New York--just or unjust, whichever you please--that reads that any person may be adjudgedinsane if the signatures of two registered physicians are affixed to the document.
On the insane the results attained by the use of colored glass do not seem to be quite coherent.
I was never in a Catholic church in my life, and I have not the slightest sympathy with many of its dogmas; but above all I have no respect for the insane fear that the Catholic Church is about to overturn this Government.
During the terrible 1,100 mile journey the servant became insane and in the dead of night killed the bishop.
It was cancelled, indeed, subsequently, but it almost drove the Pope insane when he realized the full import of what he had been driven to concede.
Inhabitant of the state; idiots, insane persons and Indians not taxed excepted, 3.
Inhabitant of the state, excluding idiots, insane persons and Indians not taxed, 3.
Mr. Gibson did so and Lieutenant Thomas replied: "Excuse me, but you tell the Lieutenant down at the Station House, that I cannot open an insane asylum.
By the time Mr. Gibson and his mother had returned home from their house hunting, the officers had arrived, and brought the insane man down stairs.
After leaving the family we next directed our steps to the insane asylum of the almshouse.
Smith, who informed that a cure might be effected, and in accordance with his suggestions, I sent him to the insane department of the almshouse as the following will testify.
John was, on the evidence of Doctors Mayers and Betts sent to the Insane Department at Blockley Almshouse.
The next day the officers came down again and removed the insane man in a carriage to the Central Station.
The doctor has had charge of theinsane since December 1866.
Don't let us commit murder," he said, turning round and meeting the excited eyes of the half-insane poet.
His poor mother is said to be almost insane at this second grief, which follows so suddenly on her heart-rending bereavement of last week.
He had cried out like an insane man; he was leaning over the bed with an evident desire to fall to the floor, he had been talking about a wheel and a skull.
It has taught the people to be discontented with their lot, filled them with an insane desire for change, made them greedy of novelties, and stirred them up to a chronic war with their rulers.
A fierce hatred of the Romans and an insane eagerness to re-establish the old Jewish independence had taken possession of certain youthful fanatics; and "possessed" indeed they seemed.
His mental quickness soon discovered how small an entity he was in the midst of this all-comprehending Babylon; how insane it would be to attempt to stem the torrent of new ideas and new ways.
By the time the old town lay several miles away, Victurnien felt not the slightest regret; he thought no more about the father, who had loved ten generations in his son, nor of the aunt, and her almost insane devotion.
It reminded me of ghouls and idiots and insane howlings.
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.
Only his insane hatred of Breed led Flatear to brave his horror of that sound of grating steel,--but he came in close at last, crouched and sprang.
The chaos in his mind sent him flying from this insane place within six seconds after his first attack.
I was both insane and criminal to think of permitting you to try it.
How insane we all were not to have foreseen this from the very beginning.
He had attempted what none but an insane man would have tried, without even the pitiable excuse of insanity.
All that I or Mowbray had mentioned before Mr. Montenero of my aversion to Fowler, now appeared to be but the dislike which an insane person is apt to take against those about them, even to those who treat them most kindly.
He had once heard Miss Montenero express strongly her terror at seeing an insane person--her horror at the idea of a marriage which a young friend of hers had made with a man who was subject to fits of insanity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
