In his heart he thought that the fear of war with her great neighbor had become a monomania with the French.
And then Peter Champneys realized that the French fear hadn't been so much a monomania as a foreknowledge.
Downie may give him counsel, convince him of his folly, and if possible free him henceforth from the monomania under which he now suffers.
The remembrance of this, he said, should be ever present with him, and he was confident would protect him if his unhappy monomania shewed any signs of returning.
It bore no resemblance to ordinary crimes and was clearly a case of monomania with hallucinations.
What you call self-conquest--binding and deafening yourself to all but one train of impressions--is only the culture of monomania in a nature like yours.
That is, it stimulated his monomania into exercise, by determining to annihilate or crush the victim in whose mental and moral magnetism he felt so uneasy and dissatisfied with himself.
This Monomania in many instances is not Insanity, but individuality, which is the highest natural development of a human being.
There was true madness in that look, arising from the long privation, the interminable jealousy, the consequent monomania of revenge.
They became aware that he suffered from monomania touching the object of his sorrow, and the circumstance impressed them exceedingly.
There is evidence that when the sisters wrote their novels they had already attributed monomania to Branwell, and could thus explain his history for themselves.
Yet Nelly Dean does say of Heathcliff's love for Catherine: 'He might have had a monomania on the subject of his departed idol; but on every other point his wits were as sound as mine.
A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties.
A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.
The monomania of persecution took possession of him, and threatened to lead him to suicide.
Under the constant impression of this monomania of persecution he wrote his Dialogues sur Rousseau jugé par Rousseau, in which, in order to appease his innumerable enemies he presented a faithful and minute portrait of his hallucinations.
Proud almost tomonomania with the great, he yet led a wild and vicious life, and was known as the “Mad Parson.
Nothing but an intense religious monomania could have inspired the singular self-crucifixion of the Venetian shoemaker, Matteo Lovat.
For many years he was subject to a real monomania of persecution, with hallucinations in which the fantasies of his stories were converted into realities.
Deprived of her full reason by a terrible catastrophe, her monomania has something touching about it.
And in his bitter complaint of being watched, in his desire to watch the enemies who, he thought, were obstinately bent on his destruction, were easily to be recognized the symptoms of the monomania of suspicion.
We have had under observation and treatment a number of insane patients whose peculiar delusion or monomania was an exaggerated fear of germs, a genuine bacteriophobia.
Even if he is now, or was then, a monomaniac, can the deed in question be traceable to hismonomania as to its real cause?
But then you must be very careful not to confound monomania with eccentricity.
But on careful enquiry, I found it was a case of monomania with the boy Akosho, and that he really was the murderer of the two men.
He says,-- "I cannot avoid relating in this place a very curious instance of a strange and horrid form of monomania which is sometimes displayed by these primitive negroes.
His lordship evidently perceived the monomania which controlled me, and heard me with great attention.
My monomania returned with redoubled force, and I resolved to renew my search with vigour.
Bret Harte had almost a monomania for not answering letters; and his absence from Glasgow could not safely be inferred from his failure to acknowledge communications addressed to him there.
Unless a miracle occurs, my mother will fall a victim to her monomania for vengeance on the redskins.
And, too, the literary discussions which he loved were out of the question with these addlepates who monologued indefatigably on the subject of theirmonomania and their ego.
It has reduced, sometimes even done away with, its instincts of carnage and rape, but it has replaced them by the monomania of business, the passion for lucre.
Eben Tollman alone with his monomania and Eben Tollman in the company of others were separate personalities and to pass from one to the other called for making up; for schooling of expression and the recovery of a suave exterior.
But step by step, too, was growing the development of his own condition toward madness, the more grewsomely terrible because its monomania gave no outward indication.
The wreck of his brain swirled furiously in a single whirlpool of idea, the monomania that he was called to be God's avenger.
She was as happy as a woman suffering from a recent amputation can be; and compared with the long nightmare created by Samuel's monomania and illness, her existence seemed to be now a beneficent calm.
Had they been accused of monomania they would have smiled the smile of people confident in their commonsense and their mental balance.
It is part of his monomania that he can persuade himself that they are little more.
Among the negro slaves in the West Indies it is scarcely known, and during three years' residence in the Bahamas, only one case of monomania fell under my observation.
