The fact is, he's not mad enough to be shut up in a lunatic asylum and he's not sane enough to be allowed to come and go as he likes.
They've taken poor Mrs. Whittaker away to a lunatic asylum.
I don't know, but when they were supposed to go abroad she was taken away to a lunatic asylum.
This is enough to ensure me against being put into a lunatic asylum.
The next morning he told me, further, that his brother was in a lunatic asylum on the mainland.
Six months have passed, and I still go daily walking on the city wall and survey the lunatic asylum, and catch glimpses of the blue sea in the distance.
Lunatic Asylum to undergo a course of medical treatment.
Glad, thought I, and happy to see a brother shut up in a lunatic asylum.
I have prefixed an original engraving to the title page of this little history, descriptive of an act that took place in one of the back halls of the Marshall Infirmary or Lunatic Asylum, Ida Hill, Troy, N.
What, said I, a lunatic asylum for my home, a cell for my dining room, a cell for my lodging, and a cell for my closet of prayer.
Lunatic Asylum, except as a means of relieving the workhouse from dangerous or offensive inmates, can be attended with little or no benefit.
Contrasted with previous neglect, the care and management afforded in an asylum render the poor idiots an infinite service; yet withal a lunatic asylum is not the proper abode for them.
I should like to see such a woman having any "career," except fitting herself speedily for a lunatic asylum.
Nor is any allusion made to the friend of the family, who furnishes all the children with holiday toys, every one of which has either a crucifying squeak or a stunning explosive power, which soon fits their amiable mother for a lunatic asylum.
It is not surprising that eventually she yielded to his entreaties, and his pathetic account of the wrongs he had endured in boyhood from the barbarous father, who would have consigned him for life to a lunatic asylum, had it not been for Dr.
Moreover, we have Mary Godwin Shelley's evidence that in wooing her he told her the wild fiction about his father's purpose to shut him up in a lunatic asylum, and of his preservation from such imprisonment through Dr.
I am aware that I am in a lunatic asylum: I am also aware that I have passed through intervals of fearful delirium.
Vague recollections of Edgar Allan Poe and the works of Charles Reade had surrounded the term lunatic asylumwith an atmosphere of feather beds and brutality; the word lunatic conjured up in his mind the idea of a man obviously insane.
I know--you and that lot had me tucked away in a lunatic asylum; now you have taken possession of the house.
It must not be understood that the same mode of operation is practiced in all cases in sending patients to an insane or lunatic asylum.
This opposition is generally attributed to their insanity, and is too generally received as evidence that such an one is a fit subject for a lunatic asylum.
It is not for money, of course, that I do it, for in this respect I shall expect to be the loser; and it certainly cannot be to let the world know that I have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum.
If it had not been for Lydia, your father would not have left his home for a lunatic asylum, nor would Clear have been murdered.
He wanted him put away in a lunatic asylum, and when I asked him how even then he could marry Lydia, he suggested his scheme of substituting a sickly and dying man for Vrain.
At times I fancied that I was living in a lunatic asylum, but one does not stand upon trifles when one is in love.
Doubtless, my judges, if I had been destined to end my days in a lunatic asylum, my fate would have come upon me in those hours of keenest agony and bitterest sorrow.
The widow of a timber-merchant, she had been staying with a relative in Stockholm, and was now on her way to visit her insane son, confined in a lunatic asylum at Havre.
For several years he was afraid of being sent to a lunatic asylum; Beethoven and Mendelssohn dictated musical combinations to him from their tombs.
Rechberg, far less foreseeing than this inspired madman, said, shaking his head: “One can easily see that this project comes from a lunatic asylum.
But this is a prison--a workhouse--a lunatic asylum!
The doctors wanted to know what he would say and do under pressure, for some of them were beginning to suggest that the man should be removed to the workhouse infirmary or a lunatic asylum.
Francis Trent was in a lunatic asylum, "at Her Majesty's pleasure.
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