Ultimately, Stanton was confined in a madhouse by relatives who wanted to secure his property; and from the madhouse he was offered, but refused, release by Melmoth as a result of some bargain, the nature of which was not revealed.
One of them was a puritanical weaver, who had been driven mad by a single sermon from the celebrated Hugh Peters, and was sent to the madhouse as full of election and reprobation as he could hold,--and fuller.
I have been shut up, as I say, for twenty-nine years, and I now discover that the madhouse bores me.
Katherine de la Court held a "hospital in the Court called Robert de Paris," but the first madhouse in Christendom was built by the legate Ortiz in Toledo A.
In modern parlance "Maristan" is a madhouse where the maniacs are treated with all the horrors which were universal in Europe till within a few years and of which occasional traces occur to this day.
Even the modest Lane gives a "shocking" story of a woman enjoying her lover under the nose of her husband and confining the latter in a madhouse (chaps.
They were meant to be studies in abnormal psychology, for they were printed together in the Dramatic Lyrics under the caption Madhouse Cells.
This is by no means a meditation in a madhouse cell, as Browning first believed; but might logically be the reflections of a nineteenth century Presbyterian clergyman, seated in his comfortable library.
Don Quixote gave him leave, and the rest prepared to listen, and he began thus: "In the madhouse at Seville there was a man whom his relations had placed there as being out of his mind.
Said Byron:-- "What we behold Shall be the madhouse and its belfry tower, .
The document relates a startling story of a mysterious Englishman who appears at a Spanish wedding with disastrous consequences, and reappears before Stanton in a madhouse offering release on dreadful conditions.
To shut Guarini up in a madhouse would have been difficult.
Thus did Halechalbe pass almost unexpectedly from a madhouse to that honourable elevation to which he was raised by the Caliph Haroun, and from the most mournful of all situations to the highest degree of happiness.
But her inquiries soon became fruitless, for the neighbours were altogether silent concerning Halechalbe, from the moment when he was privately taken to a madhouse in a state of insanity.
Many adventures ensue, from the episode with the dancing girl Anitra to the crowning in a madhouse of Peer as Emperor of Himself.
This fine old country seat of which I vainly think myself the mistress, is just the pauper madhouse to which the magistrates have sent me.
Herbert Greyson, the sailor lad, who comes here to the madhouse to see me, and, out of compassion, humors all my fancies.
Then, on this night, his Fear rose up and mopped and mowed at him, and it had the kind of face that madhousedoctors and keepers know.
Like many other practical jests, this ends in breakdown and brain-fever, or drives its victims to the chemist for sleepy drugs, and to the madhouse subsequently.
At the spot which is occupied by thismadhouse there stood in the reign of Louis XIII.
Her husband was an American," Henry rejoined, "and is in a madhouse or an institution for inebriates, I believe.
West, and they say he's shut in a madhouse or home for inebriates.
This poem was first published as the second of two headed "Madhouse Cells"; and though the classifying title was afterwards rejected, that it should ever have been used is something of a clue to the meaning.
Having thus thrown dust in the eyes of the Board, Thomas Hardie and Richard consulted with a notoriously unscrupulous madhouse keeper in the suburbs of London, and effected a masterstroke; whereof anon.
It is a fireman mounting the great elm-tree in the madhouse yard.
The stinginess of relations, and the greed of madhouse proprietors, make many a patient look ten times madder than he is, by means of dress.
He took down the statutes of the realm, and showed Alfred the clause which raises the proprietor of a madhouse above the civic level of Prince Royal.
Is forcible imprisonment of a bridegroom in a madhousethe thing to give a gentleman a factitious appetite at your barbarous dinner-hour?
The bow is stretched all the time, and the nation is afflicted with a dreadful seriousness that suggests the madhouse by its lack of humour and gaiety.
But we must cherish it, or accept the hideous alternative that this is, after all, in very truth the madhouse of the universe.
They shall never say that I ran into this extravagance in my sober senses; I 'll finish my days in a madhouse first.
The ten years have passed, and I'm not in a madhouse yet, unless, indeed, it is one of my own getting up!
And then I wondered what a madhouse was, and if the people there all acted as our school-teacher did when Bill and the big girl said he was mad!
The different wards might have been cleaner and better ordered; I saw nothing of that salutary system which had impressed me so favourably elsewhere; and everything had a lounging, listless, madhouse air, which was very painful.
Soon we shot in quick succession, past a light- house; a madhouse (how the lunatics flung up their caps and roared in sympathy with the headlong engine and the driving tide!
Afterwards appeared in Bells and Pomegranates under the heading "Madhouse Cells II.
Reprinted in Bells and Pomegranates under the heading "Madhouse Cells I.
Thereupon the Manager of the Madhouse cried to me, "O fellow, this is the babble of madmen!
Hereupon the folk seeing me and hearing me say these words shouted out, "Yonder is a lunatic;" so they seized me perforce and jailed me in the madhouse as thou hast seen me, O our lord the Sultan.
The cells, like those of a madhouse in Turkey, were built round the four sides of a garden; and each had a small entrance-court, paved with stone.
From the madhouse we proceeded to the slave-market; a square court, three of whose sides are built round with low stone rooms, or cells, beyond which projects a wooden peristyle.
Strikingly handsome, and not above five-and-thirty, he had already passed four miserable years in the Madhouse of Solimaniè.
The History of the Prisoner in the Bímáristán or Madhouse (cd.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "madhouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
