What good is bravery against a madman with a gun--still he promised, he promised me he would not go to the farm alone.
That madman seems to have spoken shrewdly when he said you did not like fighting," said a girl beside him.
That madman knows too much," said Rosmore, turning to Sir John.
They looked at each other in consternation, bitterly blaming Mannheim for the trick he had played them in bringing such a madman among them.
Now you calmly tell me that this criminal madman is a highly sweet and sane old thing, with accompaniments that set me speculating on your own definition of sanity.
The madman is the man behind the scenes, like the man that wanders about the coulisse of a theater.
No king that night so prized his crown as the madman prized that rusty inch of wire,--the proper prey of the rubbish-cart and dunghill.
This language and conduct were rather new to the English clerk's mercantile ears: we cannot wonder that it should seem to him, as he said to his master, more the language of a madman than a man of business.
It was Cook, the clerk, a merry, blue-eyed little man, who told the story of the madman in the cabin.
The feelings of the members may be imagined when the knowledge was forced upon them that in their midst was a madman who carried loaded firearms.
And now the madman sees the danger that menaces his design--but too late, for Peters the unconquerable stands erect between him and the chasm.
I should have sent your madman word to return the girl, or take the consequences--the consequences being that I should have blown him and the entire mountain into the mighty deep.
Now and again the madman would lash himself into a fury, and stop for a moment to gaze at Lilama, who never moved from her crouching position some ten feet from the canyon's brink.
The madman then threw himself upon us, ran through the gate of the palace, struck us with his cane, and got here.
Supposing the madman had heard the music, and supposing he jumped out of the window and came to them?
The old couple were only afraid that themadman would not be at the inn any longer.
Ere he could reach the craft the madman picked up the long ice pole and aimed a vicious prod with it at our hero's breast.
When the madman struck Bob I nearly fainted," said Mrs. Cromwell.
Viola and myself slept in turn; but the madman sat in the bow, looking out ahead, hour after hour.
The descent to where the madman had disappeared was quickly made, but he could not be found.
The madman had boarded the boat and was in the act of shoving off.
We must capture that madman and bind him with ropes," said Captain Sumner.
When the madman had appeased his hunger he looked at us for some minutes without speaking.
It was not honorable warfare, but it was effective; then, too, it was Hadrianesque, the mad insult of a madman to a race as mad as he.
The valleys have their imbeciles; it is from mountains the poet and madman come.
A king, who had been assassinated, she had known well and had well liked; an empress, whom a frenziedmadman had stabbed to the heart, had been her friend.
And, while he should be watched as a madman is watched, he is given a lifetime to we attack on a world that has ceased to believe in the sole thing which is real to himself.
He fought like a madman against the hindering force, and suddenly it released him.
Aurelia, my beautiful darling, to that madman in the dark!
Silly fly; you are as bent as ever on remaining in the web in which a madman and a foolish boy have involved you?
At length it came to the ears of the king of Dûr that there was a madman in the market trying to buy patience.
The merchant dances because he has recovered his fortune; Kooshy Ram dances because he is a madman and has tricked you; but why do you dance?
I know I behaved like a madman when my father came and said that I could never marry the daughter of a professional gamester and notorious smuggler, especially when the girl was not even the legitimate child of this dishonored father.
Zehren is like a madman when he gets into a rage, and the prince has none of the coolest of tempers--in a word, the thing came to an explosion.
In his confusion he rushed upon me like a madman to force me from my post, so that I defended myself against him with difficulty.
Quick as lightning Lothaire caught his sister, drew her in, and, at the same moment, struck the madman in the face with his clenched fist, so that he reeled and let go his prey.
Like a madman he flew upon the workmen with his spear and drawn sword, and frightened them from their work; for they thought that a mountain demon was in their presence and fled in great confusion.
Harry Urquhart, in breathless haste, snatched the torch from the hands of his friend, and dashed like a madman to the entrance.
If you were to destroy yourself I should regret you as a madman in whom I had taken an interest, but I should not be in any way responsible for that misfortune.
No one but a madman would live and dress as he does; no one but a madman would devote his whole time to the study of the supernatural; no one but a madman would believe in the supernatural as he does.
But I praised the saints for sending to our aid this madman Grul,--whom, in my heart, I now graciously absolved from the charge of madness.
A quaintmadman of these parts," said I; "and yet I think his madness is in some degree a feigning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "madman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
