You have let loose a maniac on the whole metropolis.
This criminal or maniac Smith is a very genius of evil, and has a method of his own, a method of the most daring ingenuity.
I believe the maniac was one of those who do not merely come, but are sent; sent like a great gale upon ships by Him who made His angels winds and His messengers a flaming fire.
It was more than an idea or a passion: it was like the craving of a drug maniac for his poison.
To go in to break in, if that were the quickest way to stamp his stormy way up the room where Tom Mowbray was sleeping, to wrench him from his bed and then let loose the maniac fury that burned within him all that was plain to do.
They were the wail of the goatsucker, the bay of the barking wolf, and the maniacscream of the eagle.
I could see above me the cibolero, with his sister by his side, and on the extremest point the hideous witch their mother, who laughed a wild maniac laugh, and clapped her long bony hands!
One would have thought that no maniachad ever before attacked a chief magistrate.
Before two hours were over, the name of almost every eminent politician was mixed up with that of the poor maniac who caused the uproar.
It was in nearly the same reach of the Conon that my poor friend the maniac of Ord lost her life a few days after.
The expulsion of devils was included among the miracles performed in the name of Theodore; and in our illustration is a poor maniac waiting before the sanctuary, for the purpose, while the appointed papas are exorcising him.
As Meikle John Gibb, who was their comrade in captivity, used to disturb their worship in jail by his maniac howling, two of them took turn about to hold him down by force, and silence him by a napkin thrust into his mouth.
We felt that the dark maniac had been hovering around us, and that this meeting was not altogether accidental.
We could easily understand why superstitious savages should run when a maniac female of such dismal aspect flitted along their trail.
But still she would continue her sad reminiscences, and think of the kindness he displayed then, and of his brutal ferocity now--would remember his considerate tenderness and compare it with his maniac fury.
Nobody but a maniac could have gone up and down that mountain as he did!
No one having a machine like that can help using it, and it is often quite as bad to be considered a maniac as to be one.
Had she been leading some exciting, turbulent life, it would have been better for her; but this stagnant monotony seemed in a fair way of making her a maniacbefore long.
Or this one over here--a shrieking maniac calling on all Hell's legions for vengeance on fancied enemies!
Let us suppose that the disease was mania, and that our Lord knew it to be so, but that the father, as well as the maniac and the others who were present believed that it was caused by the action of an evil spirit.
This being so, it is quite possible that a maniac may confuse his personality with one or more demons; and speak and act consistently with the delusion.
What was there inconsistent with veracity in addressing the maniac in terms of his own delusions?
If I wanted the consent of the majority I could buy it,--buy it if I had shot the maniac instead of letting him shoot me.
He is the mine blacksmith, a perfect Sheridan for wit and repartee when he is sober, and a maniac of maniacs when he is drunk,--which happens whenever Dick relaxes his vigilance for a single hour.
At last Clavers arrived, and ordered the maniac to be brought into his presence, and that of the Court, for examination.
Scarcely had the men grounded their muskets in the guard-house, when a seeming maniacrushed upon them with an open knife, and cut right and left like a fury.
You're as bad as that maniac who calls himself Lansa.
No one but a maniac would cherish such a wild dream of Universal conquest.
The heavy door again swung to; the key turned in the lock; the son was alone in his condemned cell; and the maniac mother, out once more in the beating rain and chill night wind, was lost in the great wilderness of mighty London.
The last words were uttered with a maniac shriek, as she turned and fled from the room.
Elsie made a dash for the windows, as if to leap out upon the lawn, but the movements of the maniac were far faster.
Up till now the flames had hardly reached the tower, and it seemed at least a possible thing that the maniac might be saved.
She listened yet a while longer, lest, with maniac cunning, he should return for the purpose of catching her in the act of disobedience.
He said it was hanging over him like a doom and sometimes he even woke up in the night and wished he had made a different report about the accident--one with a little hysterics or description in it, like this maniac had seemed to crave.
He swore, by doggie, he was through with that maniac forever!
And now Rex was fighting a most entertaining bout, fighting it with a maniac fury that infected his young disciple and made him yearn to share in the glory.
To his dismay he found himself fighting not a helpless dog, but a maniac wolf.
Schwartz's kick at the Master had thrown the adoring dog into a maniac rage against this defiler of his idol.
Beside himself with maniac wrath, he shut both eyes and launched himself forward.
The child succeeded in escaping from the homicidal maniac of fifteen, who later on was arrested and charged at the police-court.
The series of diabolical crimes in the East End which appalled the world were committed by a homicidal maniac who led the ordinary life of a free citizen.
I felt safer then, for the interview took place at Broadmoor, and two stalwart keepers stood by while the poor maniac foamed and raved.
And yet he was a homicidal maniacof the most diabolical kind.
From midnight till the break of day he is a maniac with a desire to kill.
