The course they have adopted is surely derogatory to the moral integrity of the parties concerned, and my stay among lunatics and maniacs is an unpardonable abuse of an excellent institution.
But she plays with her brood of antic lunatics all about the gardens, singing and making a mock of religion.
He gives shelter to four poor lunatics whom a sisterly love has preserved from the living death of a common asylum.
And there are those uncertifiable lunatics we call men and women of "impulse" and "strong passions.
Lunatics of this class are called "king's pleasure lunatics.
The Criminal Lunatics Act contains provisions similar to those of the Lunacy Act 1890, as to the discharge (conditional or absolute) and transfer of criminal lunatics and the detention of persons becoming pauper lunatics.
The expenses of the maintenance of criminal lunatics are defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament (Crim.
The following works may be consulted: Collinson on the Law of Lunatics and Idiots (2 vols.
Provision is made for the discharge of lunatics from asylums, &c.
Pauper lunatics may be boarded out with relatives and friends.
The shrine of St Dymphna at Gheel, in Belgium, was one of these, and seems to have originated in the 7th century, a shrine so famed that lunatics from all over Europe were brought thither for miraculous healing.
It is needless to produce tables illustrative of the relative numbers of lunatics in the various countries of Europe, the systems of registration being so unequal in their working as to afford no trustworthy basis of comparison.
Thus large numbers of lunatics accumulated in the prisons, and slowly there grew up a sort of distinction between them and criminals, which at length resulted in a separation of the two classes.
Voltaire recovered his reason before he died, as lunatics are wont to do; when he died he was definitely religious and took the sacrament.
Finally, however, he recovered his reason, just like lunatics shortly before they die.
Do not place him with a lot of lunatics if you can help it.
Crime will be regarded as a disease, and it will be as inhuman to treat the criminal with harshness as it is to-day to torture lunatics after the methods of a hundred years ago.
In Germany a number of lunatics have been called up for military service, and the annual report of one institution at Stettin states that "the asylums are proud that their inmates are allowed to serve their Fatherland.
Asylums multiply, weaklings abound, criminals andlunatics blossom out from heretofore honored ancestry.
The houses for the male lunatics and imbeciles are on the highest point overlooking at all times the trenches and at all times within hearing of whatever goes on there.
And where do all these lunatics and criminals come from?
The increase in the number of inmates in institutions for lunatics is attended with a falling off in the recovery rate, which is lower for 1898 than that of the previous year, and even than the average of the last ten years.
It is the criminal lunatics who are absurd," she retorted.
I believe, as a matter of fact, that we are; but as we are all lunatics together, there is no one left to put us into asylums.
I am only speaking a word for the lunatics who think they enjoy it.
No, not the lunatics, but my own family, and sometimes the lunatics too.
From the parishes that I had got the lunatics from.
My principal means of living is that I get an annuity for keeping some pauper lunatics belonging to several parishes, Delting and Tingwall, and so forth.
In other words, precisely as I declared at the outset, it is your playing tennis which is responsible for the lunatics chasing the balls!
Mind you, this condition is all very well so long as we can say that the lunatics are incurable--that there is nothing we can do but shut our ears to their howling, and go ahead with our tennis.
A great number of them are; but we also allow such confirmed lunatics as are harmless to mingle with them.
The surprise that lunatics should be susceptible of healthy mental exertion, arises from the common forgetfulness that many understandings are slightly affected, or are only deranged upon particular points.
Another significant fact elicited was, that whilst in the manufacturing counties the idiots were considerably less than the lunatics, in the rural counties the idiots were to the lunatics as 7 to 5!
This is a system which we are confident is as illegal as it is heartless, and we are astonished that bodies of Englishmen should dare to insult the miseries of lunatics by thus punishing them and their friends for their affliction.
The oversight of the lunaticsfalls almost wholly upon the hostess, the man rarely interfering, unless called upon to control a disorderly patient.
Lunatics are singularly gentle to them, and are interested in all their actions.
Not only do the lunatics rear the vegetables, but they take them to the asylum gates and dispose of them to the public.
It is this extraordinary increase of pauper lunatics in the county asylums which has frightened some psychologists from their propriety, and led them to believe that insanity is running a winning race with the healthy intellect.
We are informed that the lunatics who are transferred here from the undecorated wards, enter the apartment with expressions of delight, and are particularly careful to preserve the objects of their pleasure in good condition.
Idleness is perhaps a greater curse to the majority of lunaticsthan to sane individuals.
I guess that one chance would fall to me," observed Fenn, "and I'll give the lunatics a wide berth.
Indeed, if all the fake lunatics were sent back to prison, it would save the state the expense of building so many hospitals.
We had heard stories of their extravagant doings, but this was our first sight of the famous lunatics whose reputation had spread through every prison-camp in Turkey.
When, after watching the pair for several hours, we went into the garden that evening and discussed them, we agreed that they were either real lunatics or brilliant actors.
The high wall round the establishment was being replaced by a hedge, and the attendants were kept out of sight as much as possible, in accordance with the modern theory of not letting lunatics know that they were under restraint.
All over Europe for centuries lunatics were whipped, and otherwise ill-treated, in the hopes of expelling the demons that were troubling them.
In some parts of Scotland, as late as 1783, lunatics were left all night in the churchyard, with a holy bell over their heads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lunatics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
