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Example sentences for "maniacs"

Lexicographically close words:
manhood; mani; mania; maniac; maniacal; manias; manibus; manic; maniculatus; manicure
  1. Sleep in the crowded Mental Ward, with maniacs shrieking and shouting around!

  2. I exclaimed aloud; "these murdered hundreds represent thousands of bleeding hearts AT HOME, and yet the maniacs continue to kill each other as if human lives were of no account and human souls not worth a thought.

  3. The local sub-deputy gave his guests the thrill of watching maniacs battling to the death.

  4. It is well known that many vain suicidal maniacs enjoy the sight of their own death surrounded by pomp, like the Englishman who had a mass composed and executed in public, and shot himself while the Requiescat was being chanted.

  5. Alcoholic maniacs often make an excessive use of yellow in their pictures.

  6. Xenocrates cured maniacs by melodious sounds, and Asclepiades conquered deafness with a trumpet.

  7. So great has been this effect upon the senses, that maniacs have been seen to gaze upon the meridian sun without any sensible effect on the organs of vision.

  8. In future, the men of reason must see that the madness of the world's maniacs is canalised into proper channels, is made to do useful work, like a mountain torrent driving a dynamo.

  9. We can't allow dangerous maniacs like Luther, mad about dogma, like Napoleon, mad about himself, to go on casually appearing and turning everything upside down.

  10. The men of intelligence must combine, must conspire, and seize power from the imbeciles and maniacs who now direct us.

  11. The maniacs may have given utterance to exclamations resulting from mere delusions; but the Evangelists in recording these utterances gave simple statements of facts.

  12. Now it is difficult to believe that maniacs existed in such large numbers in a country of the size and population of Judaea.

  13. This being so, it follows that exorcists might be capable of exerting upon maniacs a powerful influence favourable to cure.

  14. It is clear that the supposed maniacs imagined themselves under the influence of demoniacal possession.

  15. This will often produce a calm among maniacs which persons of inferior endowments utterly fail to excite.

  16. I have hitherto, in treating this part of the subject, been dealing with the supposition that our Lord's disciples mistook maniacs for demoniacs, and the consequences of such a mistake on the authenticity of the Gospel narratives.

  17. Even in the minutest details it is surprising how Nietzsche agrees, word for word, with the other ego-maniacs with whom we have become acquainted.

  18. Mystics, but especially ego-maniacs and filthy pseudo-realists, are enemies to society of the direst kind.

  19. They are not ego-maniacs by free choice, but because they must be, and cannot be otherwise.

  20. Mr. Reynolds disliked pro-Germans and spy-maniacs with almost equal fervour; his work brought him in contact with both.

  21. Was it conceivable that Miss Forsyth must be numbered henceforth among the spy maniacs of whom she knew there were a good many in Witanbury?

  22. Now every one of these habits and fancies you may see in many raging maniacs at this day.

  23. But did our Lord treat this man as we treat such maniacs in these days?

  24. It is the theory of Europe that Americans are maniacs of money.

  25. These maniacs kept Richard abroad for fairly the fifteen years next before he meets you in these pages.

  26. Most commentators follow Jerome in making it refer to the fetters with which maniacs are bound,[397] but there is no evidence that Nebuchadrezzar was so restrained, and the bands round the stump are for its protection from injury.

  27. But in the mad-house I was not allowed to read, and lay awake continually at night listening to the idiots bleating and the maniacs raving about me.

  28. In rooms on each side of me were epileptics and I could hear, especially when I was in the ward, raving maniacs shouting all about me.

  29. Taking care of idiots and maniacs is a strain on the intelligence of the best men.

  30. But this definition applies equally to mania, for we every day see the most furious maniacs suddenly sink into a profound melancholy; and the most depressed, and miserable objects, become violent and raving.

  31. Of the power which maniacs possess of resisting cold the belief is general, and the histories which are on record are truly wonderful.

  32. What, indeed, would the majority of the sections do when it is demonstrated that a dozen raving maniacs at the head of a sans-culottes section puts the other forty-seven sections of Paris to flight?

  33. Simultaneously with the bandits and rascals, monstrous maniacs come out of their holes.

  34. Courtesies of pedants, rhetorical personifications, and the invective of maniacs is the prevailing tone.

  35. Still the maniacs continued firing up the hatchway.

  36. Idiots, maniacs and sleeping persons are the only classes of human beings who are devoid of intelligence and reasoning power.

  37. Idiots and maniacs also are often devoid of the common animal instinct that ordinarily promotes self- preservation from fire, water and high places.

  38. Maniacs and imbeciles cannot be trained to perform any program fit to be seen.

  39. Two dreadful maniacs raging apart, but in communion, in one vast bedlam!

  40. Maniacs have raised a revolt against the only governmental power chosen by the people, the Provisional Government….

  41. Any agreement with the maniacs is impossible until they lay down their arms and recognise the authority of independent courts of law….

  42. Bowse, however, recommended him not to attempt to do so till a greater number of the maniacs had been got off.

  43. Linton accordingly sent for further assistance, and two more hands came off from the cutter, both for the purpose of carrying down the sufferers, and of defending them in the mean time from any attack the maniacs might make on them.

  44. But, one-third of our maniacs are deranged by alcohol.

  45. What if one-sixth of our maniacs were deprived of their reason by the bite of the dogs, the friendly inmates of our houses, or by some vegetable common on our table; who would harbor the dangerous animal, or taste the poisonous vegetable?

  46. You will not, with your own hands, go on forging daggers for maniacs to use upon themselves and their friends, provided you can get some one to take your business at a fair price.

  47. I was in the midst of a dozen maniacs mad with fear.

  48. I pleaded passionately with her to give up her brother and all the maniacs who followed him.

  49. But there would always be some sedition-monger to immediately fill the street with a thousand yelling maniacs who would scream that their religion had been insulted by the accursed infidels.

  50. There seemed to be a couple of thousand yelling maniacs packing both sides of the street.

  51. This pair of mediocre maniacs were his models for mankind at large.

  52. He wrote in his journal: "My ancestors, idiots or maniacs .

  53. As soon as these maniacs discovered we were Americans, they were smart enough to introduce into the bedlam as much of our mother-tongue as they could command, making the scene all the more amusing.

  54. Passengers are carried to and fro in bongoes, managed by a noisy and naked boatman, who inspires alarm in the breast of the nervous passenger, who imagines this gang of savage-looking maniacs are cannibals howling for his blood.


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