I have already mentioned the lunatic asylum lately erected upon this rock, whose whitened walls look cheerfully down upon the waters beneath, and little tells the observer how many darkened minds wander within them.
On one day to went to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, and from all the unhappy inmates he was able to get one confession.
He distributed Bibles and blankets, prayer-books and porridge, and three of his best and most hopeful proselytes went mad, and were sent to the county lunatic asylum.
One of his former high-up friends and he were walking by a lunatic asylum once, and his friend remarked that he should soon be fit for admission there.
The life of the peasant or small farmer is one of hardship that leaves no moment for leisure, and of monotony that populates our lunatic asylums.
The reports of their proceedings read like the vagaries of a lunatic asylum or the deliberations of the American Senate.
I dare say you would think me a lunatic if I proposed that Government should establish music-halls and gymnasia all over the country; but you, Mr. Fissure, voted for the Baths and Washhouses.
Lunatic or not, this was the exploit he had determined on attempting, and he further explained himself.
I am sure there are two or three bonnie Prince Charlies in every lunatic asylum in Scotland.
A doctor (an official whom I had never seen), with my certificate of lunacy in readiness, was waiting for me at Agram by order of the police, together with a nurse from the Doebling Lunatic Asylum.
There is a laborious lunatic who makes ice at the fair of the American Institute, with the thermometer at 80° or so in the shade.
Composed by our Special Dangerous Lunaticin one of his Lucid Intervals.
Many a man who, when he made his will, had more brain than all his household put together, has been pronounced a fit subject for a lunatic asylum.
When the first philosopher declared that the world was round, and not a plane as flat and circular as a dinner-plate or a halfpenny, people laughed at him, and would have shut him up in a lunatic asylum.
He was to the last degree polite to the ladies, but subject to attacks of Indian rage at mere trifles, when he would go aside, swear, and destroy something like a lunatic in a fury, and then return quite happy and serene.
The indoor paupers, the convicts, the inmates of the lunatic asylums are cared for, in a fashion; already.
At last it stopped at the door of the lunatic asylum, and the post-boy dismounting from his reeking horses, pulled violently at a large bell, which answered with a most lugubrious tolling, and struck awe into the breast of Mrs Forster.
The reader may recollect that we left Mrs Forster in thelunatic asylum, slowly recovering from an attack of brain-fever, which had been attended with a relapse.
I consider that a termagant and a lunatic are during their paroxysms on a par, as rational behaviour in either party may be considered as a lucid interval.
Did you see that bloody lunatic Breen round there?
The long fellow gave him an eye as good as a process and now the bloody old lunatic is gone round to Green street to look for a G man.
I owe also, to the kindness of Mr. Patrick Nicol, of the Sussex Lunatic Asylum, interesting statements on two or three points.
Mr. Patrick Nicol has also kindly observed for me several cases in the Sussex Lunatic Asylum, and has communicated to me full details with respect to three of them; but they need not here be given.
Crichton Browne's Memoir on this subject in the `West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Report,' 1871, pp.
When the men returned with the lunatic he was quiet and obedient, except when they tried to substitute proper clothing for his bearskin.
We agreed that the lunatic must have written them himself, in the first beclouding of his mind, and we thought the words might have some effect upon him.
Why, if you were men instead of a damned pack of slaves, you'd take charge of this packet yourselves and clap that lunatic aft in irons.
The fastest ships in the world went then at nineteen knots, and no one but a lunatic here and there ever thought it possible that men might fly.
And here's our only chance--and you give it to that adventurouslunatic to play in his own way--in a brig!
What was that lunatic up to, and what was he howling about?
I can't have an impetuous young lunaticlike him loose on such a quiet ship as the Cobra.
He said that she combined all the qualifications demanded by the old Spanish receipt for the maker of a good salad--a spendthrift for the oil, a miser for the vinegar, a counsellor for the salt, and a lunatic to stir all up.
That crazy Allendner turkey was shrieking round the fire like a lunatic .
If it were not so, this world would be turned into a vast, howlinglunatic asylum.
No more satisfactory proof of this can be referred to, than the extraordinary success of the experiments at the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum under the direction of Dr.
The lunatic afterwards took an Indian girl into the depths of the forest, and, after cohabiting with her for some time, killed and devoured her.
Indians have no asylums, and, in order to get a dangerous lunatic out of the way, can only kill him.
