| 单词 | monomaniac |
| 例句 | But it’s hard to mine much variety from a character who admits her fanaticism has turned her into a monomaniac. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z I mean the relationship between Rothko and his protégé, though Ken might argue that Rothko is too much a monomaniac to sustain such a human bond. Theater Review | 'Red': Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in John Logan?s Drama 2010-04-02T10:10:00Z But as the focus of dynamic narratives, saints tend to be as tedious as most monomaniacs. Review: ‘Joan of Arc’ and the Monotony of Sainthood 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z But more likely it is the prison of his mental illness whose door slams on you as you are drawn into his extravagant monomaniac vision. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt ? review 2011-01-28T15:08:00Z The treatment of "Ingres the monomaniac", Degas and Manet is a textbook demonstration of his critical temper. La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso, translated by Alastair McEwen - review 2012-12-28T22:55:02Z There’s something compellingly off about him; he’s a milk-drinking straight arrow with a monomaniac streak that runs him afoul of department politics. Review: Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’ Is More Chatter Than Splatter 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z You don’t think Burial when you hear it, but weird, monomaniac soul: D’Angelo’s “Voodoo,” Stevie Wonder’s “Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants,” Sly and the Family Stone’s “Fresh.” Playlist: Sonic Stylings Dusted Off or Stripped Bare 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z Hotspur, the rebel nobleman and martial monomaniac, is played by Jade Anouka as a braggart boxer à la the young Muhammad Ali, with taped fists and a personal gym. Review: ‘Henry IV,’ Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Version 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Like Trump, Nixon was a monomaniac on the stump, obsessed with the enemies lurking within. ‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z “The presidency is not a job for a monomaniac,” said presidential historian Michael Beschloss. After unrelenting summer, Biden looks to get agenda on track 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z But like many monomaniacs, he seems bored when idle. The Culture Wars of Car Racing 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Or was it describing vengeance obsessed Rudy Giuliani coached by a naive Bobby Wagner Jr. counseled by the monomaniac passions of a jilted erstwhile Parks Commissioner, Henry Stern, plotting his comeback? David Dinkins Doesn’t Think He Failed. He Might Be Right. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z And in former Labour strongholds across the north and Wales, the effective opposition will pass to Farage and his band of Westminster discards, monomaniacs and out-and-out racists. After a campaign scarred by bigotry, it’s become OK to be racist in Britain | Aditya Chakrabortty 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The people who are all one thing or another are either crazy, or else monomaniacs and ideologues. A Point of View: The guilty thrill of reading other people's mail - BBC News 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Will even the threat of collapse force Cameron to confront and beat his ageing, monomaniac MPs and activists? If Scotland votes yes, will the Tories rule for ever? 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z To some extent, this is because Romney's monomaniac focus on the economy didn't work as well as Bill Clinton's in 1992. How Mitt Romney lost his mojo: he forgot the economy 2012-10-02T17:58:44Z They were monomaniacs, all of them, and they sold their birthright of decency for a mess of ambrosia; too blinded to know or care how much they were losing, and for how barren a price. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z A monomaniac is generally made by dwelling for a long period upon one object with intense interest, to the exclusion of others. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z Withal, he is not a criminal, only a monomaniac of art. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Many authors on natural religion may come under the denomination of monomaniacs. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Other so-called monomaniacs have the same characteristic and are associated with related symptoms of mental disturbance. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z No one but a fool or a monomaniac goes on stumbling through his allotted portion of existence, when he may easily learn to go without stumbling at all, or only occasionally. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z It is probable, also, that he was a religious monomaniac, for he was a pious fanatic—a Jacobinist—and in his pocket were found a copy of the New Testament, and thirty gold pieces. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z The monomaniacs became, according to circumstance, the objects of superstitious horror or reverence. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Such do we usually find the enthusiastic monomaniac. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z "That won't do, my dear Watson," said Holmes, shaking his head; "for no amount of 'id�e fixe' would enable your interesting monomaniac to find out where these busts were situated." The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z These iniquities comprehended every act attributed by the superstition of the time to the servants of the devil, which had been carefully gathered up by this monomaniac from contemporary witch-tradition. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z My acquaintance with him induces me to believe him a monomaniac; he is a man of great loquacity and very unmeaning, ready at all times to dispute the ground of his doctrines with any one. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z Old man Fontenelle is almost a monomaniac on the subject of the lost charter. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z I attended a monomaniac lady in Paris, who fancied herself in Jerusalem on the eve of its destruction. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Some hours later I saw the monomaniac stealthily creeping back among the rocks. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z In the flame-white allure of sex she struck straight at you, as undisguised and challenging as lightning, and, to any but a monomaniac, as soon wearied of. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Even monomaniacs no longer came into the galleries, and the half dozen who had arrived left by luncheon time. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z My grandfather was a sort of puritanical monomaniac; even in the days of his mental vigour I can remember him as a sterner moralist than any of one's school-masters or college dons. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z So far the Rambler, according to the accounts given of him, was merely a harmless monomaniac—harmless even to himself, as all monomaniacs are not. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z She was what might be called a monomaniac. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z Ah, my boy, that did turn me into a monomaniac! "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z A monomaniac before, he is paralytic now, and the last night of his life is slowly passing. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z I am tired of being a martyr to hygiene and a monomaniac on the subject of sanitary science. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Let us not call this man a driveller and a monomaniac. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z Mr. Packard is a monomaniac on this subject; there is no more reason in his treatment of sister, than in a brute.” Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z Alone at last, with the desired jet of steam, the monomaniac once more settled himself to his novel pursuit of tampering with seals. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z It is a melancholy book—written under monomaniac suspicion on the part of the author that he was the object of a wide-spread conspiracy against his reputation, his peace of mind, and even his life. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The jealous delusions of a monomaniac could scarcely have transformed Mr. Smith into a Cassio. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Even today tens of thousands of educated men regard him as a monomaniac concerning the abolition of slavery. The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It 2011-03-02T03:00:26.877Z In my opinion, sister would have come nearer the truth, had she said he ought to be treated just as he is treating his wife—as a monomaniac. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z Her mother had spoken of him as a monomaniac. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z "I never gave a thought as to the effect which the constant study of a monomaniac might produce upon her," he said half abruptly; "but she's quit of me now, and will improve." Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z I had seen it before in religious monomaniacs. The Blind Mother and The Last Confession 2011-02-03T03:00:11.867Z I am a sort of monomaniac, I think; I do not know what is the matter with me. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z But now I can on the supposition that he don’t know a sane from an insane person, because he has become a monomaniac on this subject, just as Mr. Packard has on the woman question. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z I told you I was eccentric," he said, quietly, "more, I am a monomaniac, perhaps. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z "I'm not a monomaniac—at least, not yet," he replied, and his voice suggested a certain pent savagery in his brain. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Louis, as I was saying, regards the man in the romantic light of a humanitarian monomaniac or a demented food reformer. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z If we are all monomaniacs on that subject, he is certainly the worst. The Joy of Living (Es lebe das Leben) A Play in Five Acts He has been so long conversant with the insane, that he has become a perfect monomaniac on insanity and in his treatment of the insane. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z Except a knot of anti-Semitic monomaniacs all parties bowed loyally to the judgment of the court of cassation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" And then the harmless monomaniac would fall back into what we trust was an innocent slumber. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry No one wants the property; no one has any use for it; and no want ever existed which it was calculated to fill, except in the brain of the monomaniac who built it. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 This man, Murtagh Skeel, is a dreamer, a monomaniac, and a dangerous fanatic, for all his winning and cultivated personality and the personal purity of his character.... The Moonlit Way She was a brilliant woman in many ways, a fact which is not at all incompatible with the further fact that she was a moral degenerate, or at least a monomaniac. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) The chivalric Don Quixote, having become a monomaniac on the subject of chivalry, bestrode his Rosinante, and, attended by his squire, started out to perform chivalrous deeds. Every-Day Errors of Speech I suppose you will say I am a monomaniac at the very least; but I'm going to tell you what it is that has been slowly killing me. Old Friends and New He is a monomaniac, but perfectly harmless, and calls himself Nicholas Quail. The History and Records of the Elephant Club But he recognized the monomaniac, Eph, who was in a breathless tremor. Eleven Possible Cases Right then, Miller was a crackpot to me, a monomaniac, a guy whose philosophical viewpoint went way beyond the healthy norm. Stamped Caution And now we have reached a point at which the intellect is forced, again, to struggle against its propensity for analogical inference—against its monomaniac grasping at the infinite. Eureka: A Prose Poem He was, in all probability, of unbalanced mind, a monomaniac, as most prophets have been; but there is no reason to think that he did not believe in himself, and substantially in what he taught. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning And here we must insert a curious story of a monomaniac whose madness was associated with St. Paul's. Old and New London Volume I Then he told of the monomaniac's visit to the telegraph station, and of the acute stage which his malady had reached. Eleven Possible Cases At his worst he was a fit subject for an asylum, at his best he was a religious and political monomaniac.' The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time She became, in fact, quite a monomaniac upon the subject, and, as a sample, is for ever expecting that her lover, Glanville, will speak and act like the heroes of her favourite tales. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects If the gentleman was really interested in stamps, she said, probably supposing me a monomaniac on the point, he should see Mr. Denman’s album. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) This leads us naturally on to the curious monomaniac who believed himself the slave of a demon who lived in the bell of the Cathedral, and whose case is singularly deserving of analysis. Old and New London Volume I It was evident to my mind now that this old man was a panic-stricken monomaniac, and had infected his daughter with his fears. Eleven Possible Cases Her life, she said, was spoiled by being known as the daughter of a demented monomaniac. The Come Back The monomaniac fell to rating me for my indiscretion! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Add to this the necessity of uniting the various attainments of such specialists, of taming down these often grotesque monomaniacs, of making all these studies of drawing, anatomy, colour, modelling, perspective, &c., into a picture. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion Of course, he was a monomaniac on the subject of stamp collecting.” Dave Porter and His Double Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune In normal times the monomaniac’s designs 101 would never have reached fruition. Orphans of the Storm He is a monomaniac on the subject of man's rascality and brutality, and crowds his page with forcible delineations of offensive characters and disgusting events. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 As regards food he was something of a faddist, and on the subject of fresh air almost a monomaniac. Jan and Her Job Rom..., an impulsive monomaniac, who stabbed an acquaintance, felt "the blood rushing to his head, which seemed to be in flames." Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Whether he was opal-mad or not, it is clear that persons who visit this place are very apt to become monomaniacs upon the subject of this beautiful gem. Aztec Land He had dreamed of it until he was almost, if not quite, a monomaniac, and he had built air-castles until the whole sky of his vision was filled with gorgeous structures. Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils "She is a monomaniac on the subject, I should imagine," observed Albert. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast And the reason is that the American has the romance of business and is monomaniac, while the Frenchman has the romance of life and is sane. What I Saw in America Not that I am afraid of Hartman; he is not a lunatic, only a monomaniac; but I can cheer him up better when I have a good line of retreat open. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice We distrust every one; we fly when a woman approaches; we become monomaniacs; one thing obsesses us, everybody is after our money. The Place of Honeymoons More and more the conviction forced itself upon me that I was decidedly a monomaniac already. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales Incendiarism may be divided into three sorts—malicious, fraudulent, and monomaniac. Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction The predecessor of Frederick the Great was a monomaniac and the predecessor of William the Strong was a madman. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 To the superficial observer, the great mass of the people seemed carried away with a monomaniac frenzy. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. The Confederate soldier was a monomaniac for four years. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 He was a religious monomaniac, who lived before his time, poor fellow; his madness would not be seen in him now. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 The success of these conspirators depends upon an adequate numerical proportion of knaves and monomaniacs, the well-adjusted mechanism of monarchy for the overthrow of this Republic. The Right of American Slavery Of course no one not a monomaniac would so entirely ignore your side, would conceive so strange an idea. The Squirrel-Cage He was ridiculed as a madman—a monomaniac on the subject of Indians and their rights; his plainly stated facts were branded as exaggerations, though nobody accepted his challenge to contradict them. Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings In the second place, he began to discover that his kind-hearted employer was a monomaniac. Fighting the Flames I became a monomaniac; one fixed idea haunted me; to flee as quickly as possible that lamentable jail. Sac-Au-Dos 1907 There are a good many men in the world, that nobody looks upon as monomaniacs, who are crazy in just that sort of way. The Man Who Stole A Meeting-House 1878, From "Coupon Bonds" “I know of none that seems sufficient to account for it fully, and I am therefore almost forced to regard the man as a monomaniac.” The Island Home It is a melancholy book,—written under monomaniac suspicion on the part of the author that he was the object of a wide-spread conspiracy against his reputation, his peace of mind, and even his life. Classic French Course in English This presumption is about as reasonable as it would be to say that a man is a monomaniac because he gets married when he is in no special need of a house-servant, or body-guard. Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs It was obvious that Pepe was a monomaniac, an egomaniac, and as psychotic as a shorted computer. The Misplaced Battleship It is sometimes very hard to distinguish between the unbalanced and the enthusiast, between the enthusiast and the fanatic, and between the fanatic and the monomaniac. Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm “There would be plenty of room for a dozen unsociable monomaniacs like ourselves,” said Mrs. Temperley. The Daughters of Danaus These protocols are either preposterous forgeries deliberately wrought for the purpose of fostering anti-Semitism in Russia, or they are the pitiable ravings of a familiar type of monomaniac. The Jew and American Ideals We address those who have not yet become monomaniacs as regards tobacco. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood This mental disease makes a man a monomaniac. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Like other monomaniacs he became crusty and sour for want of sympathy. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century It appears that previous to the war he was almost a monomaniac about his health. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 "He probably is a monomaniac, really insane on that one thing, from studying it so much." The Skylark of Space I was like a monomaniac—I never thought of giving up. The Spirit of Sweetwater Balzac's characters run into typical examples of particular passions rather than genuine human beings; they are generally monomaniacs. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The Alexandrian thaumaturgists, the Byzantine historians, the scholastic dialecticians, the serial novelists, and the daily dissertationists, strung together, would make a glittering chain of monomaniacs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 The wound in itself is nothing; but, madame, M. de Charny is fast becoming a monomaniac, and this I cannot cure. The Queen's Necklace In the execution of it, a man of his character and mind might well feel and display the extraordinary zeal and enthusiasm that gave to his appearance, habits, and conduct the characteristics of a monomaniac. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The children of selfish parents would be thieves; those of spendthrifts, beggars; those of crotchety parents, monomaniacs; those born of sensual parents, beastly debauchees. Plain Facts for Old and Young Badderley, a monomaniac on mortars, who saves 3d. out of every 2d. he receives. Letters from France He has become a monomaniac on one subject, the dread of being discovered, and hanged for murder. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Affection, friendship, philanthropy, will be but the wild fancies of the monomaniac, fit subjects for smiles or laughter or for pity. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Even if he is now, or was then, a monomaniac, can the deed in question be traceable to his monomania as to its real cause? Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence There was no stopping General Zarvas' rebellion Hunted and hated in two worlds, Hradzka dreamed of a monomaniac's glory, stranded in the past with his knowledge of the future. Flight From Tomorrow Still, no condition of mind is constant—except with monomaniacs—and Katherine was often carried away from herself and her troubles. A Crooked Path A Novel To discover this, without being myself discovered, was a matter that required both tact and courage, but it was one on which I was almost as much a monomaniac as a child well can be. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 Here is a poet who earned a competence as an iron-merchant; here is a monomaniac on the Corn-laws, who loved nature as intensely as ever did Burns or Wordsworth. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country But what if his insanity is partial only, if he is a monomaniac, deranged on one point and sound in mind on all other matters? Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence Desperate nourishing of a great misery, in a nature that resented it, even while cherishing it, had made me a conscious monomaniac. Told in a French Garden August, 1914 This is clearly the case when, on the subjective side, the hallucination answers to a preceding energetic activity of the imagination, as in the case of the visionary and the monomaniac. Illusions A Psychological Study The man was a monomaniac; but it struck me that, if I had been O'Brien, I should have felt uncomfortable. Romance Who or what she had been in former years, I could not ascertain, but she appeared before us in the character of a middle-aged mince-pie monomaniac, and jam-tart amateur. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 But then, the monomaniac who imagines that his arms have been mangled or cut from his body, might as well be without arms. The House of the Vampire Let us grant that he was a monomaniac, the question remains as to his general accountability. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852 "That imagination," says M. Taine, "is akin to the imagination of the monomaniac." Life of Charles Dickens Three disconsolate monomaniacs wanted making up, and I, dwelling upon the strong game I had recently been playing at home, threw precaution to the winds and made them up. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 In vain he appealed to the officers charged to visit the monomaniacs, and, in spite of all his efforts, he died in a lunatic asylum. Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah But I'm not a monomaniac, Nelly, and nothing's getting on my nerves. The Witness Mr Hackman was a murderer, however he might be a monomaniac, and he was eventually hanged as he deserved. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 But, when all is said, no words could hurt this curious monomaniac now, after that which he had seen with his own eyes and that which he now saw. Jan A Dog and a Romance Sometimes, especially in the case of an only child, this ambition grows to a terrific size, and its miserable victim acts with all the unconscious violence of a monomaniac. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One I felt that Ravengar, what with disappointed love, and jealousy, and fear of the consequences of a past crime, had developed into a sort of monomaniac in respect to Camilla. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes You know a thing like this can get on your nerves if you let it, just like anything else, and make you a monomaniac. The Witness This wound, together with the result of Germany's brutal policy toward him and France's indifference, has made him a kind of monomaniac. A Splendid Hazard He then is not unjustly termed a monomaniac. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots The other then commenced a squall, so tuneless, wild, jarring, and unmusical, that the stranger could not avoid smiling at the monomaniac, for such he at once perceived him to be. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Yes, mother is a monomaniac on the subject of play. Bessie's Fortune A Novel It was the insane purpose of a monomaniac. The Man in the Twilight Neither a fanatic nor a monomaniac, nor anything like that.” The Lion's Share He firmly believed the young man before him to be a monomaniac of an unusual type, although he could plainly see that, naturally, he was a person of no ordinary character and intelligence. Mona Nothing could be more just than to class him as a monomaniac, for he was one, if by the word monomaniac we designate every man who is dominated by a fixed idea. Là-bas It is a story we have left untold as often as possible, and I tell it to you only because you would probably become a monomaniac if I didn't. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories Neither is it consistent with experience to suppose, that, if Lady Byron had been a monomaniac, her state of disordered understanding would have been restricted to one hallucination. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time You changed all that, or you’re trying to change it, but you only mean women to be monomaniacs about something else. The Lion's Share I had gone to bed with no sense of premonition or of resolve in a particular direction; I sat up a monomaniac. At a Winter's Fire But why was the Marshal a monomaniac, how did he become one? Là-bas I have hitherto refrained from commenting often on the actions and the utterances of these monomaniacs in our midst. The Siege of Kimberley Neither is it consistent with experience to suppose that, if Lady Byron had been a monomaniac, her state of disordered understanding would have been restricted to one hallucination. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time “Do you mean to infer that I am a monomaniac?” asked Rosamund, raising her eyebrows—but only a little. The Lion's Share I had set him down as a monomaniac; but who knows? perhaps he was not so crazy after all. A Trip to Venus He was a monomaniac, and all his thoughts were in some way clustered round the dominant one. Aylwin He had never yet been able to determine whether the old man was a consummate hypocrite or a religious monomaniac. The Firm of Girdlestone "You had better fall in love than become a monomaniac," exclaimed the young man with more warmth than the occasion seemed to warrant. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 Only I don’t want to be a monomaniac, and I won’t be.” The Lion's Share The churchman was too easy-going to risk the fatigue of a scuffle with a man whom he considered as a monomaniac; but he stepped smoothly and stealthily after him and watched him go out. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 Lalor was, in fact, a monomaniac, but this Mitchell seems to have failed to perceive. The Story of Ireland It was not strange that she had great success; for she started, a monomaniac in philanthropy, from the summit of personal independence. A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia Look here, Page, you're getting to be a perfect monomaniac on the subject! The Bent Twig He showed this by giving his impression of another person of the same general mode of life,—that A.B. was "a monomaniac about everything." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator He had, in fact, come to be a sort of monomaniac, who delighted in annoying his former rival, and in haunting his footsteps as if he were his evil shadow. The Lost Trail Belle, if you keep on at this rate you will be a monomaniac on the temperance question. Sowing and Reaping He is certainly a monomaniac; no other conclusion could save him from an indictment for perjury. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II Irrepressible, instructive monomaniac, Mr. Barlow fills my life with pitfalls, and lies hiding at the bottom to burst out upon me when I least expect him. The Uncommercial Traveller The grasping monomaniac made no hesitation; but agreed at once to the disgusting terms proposed to him. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 De l'Ancre was also very zealous in the trial of unhappy monomaniacs for the crime of lycanthropy. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 The truth is that he is a dangerous monomaniac, and his one idea is to ruin the man who owns him. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories "I shall not say anything," said the monomaniac, with a wonderful and peaceful face. The Innocence of Father Brown He was a bit touched on the subject: a monomaniac, if you ask me. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama With greater bodily strength and attendant greater passions, he would have been a simple monomaniac. The Slave of the Lamp She was undoubtedly a monomaniac of the most extraordinary kind. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 He was simply a monomaniac in regard of swords and daggers. Wilfrid Cumbermede This, I perceived, was a one-idea'd nature; betraying that monomaniac tendency I have ever thought the most unfortunate with which man or woman can be cursed. Villette Had much study made of him a monomaniac babbling in a dream of absurdities? The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Am I never to get any nearer to the truth, but am I to be tormented all my life by vague doubts, and wretched suspicions, which may grow upon me till I become a monomaniac? Lady Audley's Secret The whole village now thought that Tommy had become a monomaniac upon the subject of his tombstone. Tales from Bohemia Still, there is reason to believe they took him, in the main, spectacularly, as they also took that portentous old monomaniac Gemisthos Pletho who made religions as we might make pills. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett "Oh! they have taken my letter!" cried the grovelling, groping, monomaniac. Villette When it came to gem-collecting or to anything which gave him or would give him or was expected to yield him surplus cash for buying more gems for his collection, Falco was a monomaniac. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire His friends and relatives in Ohio had sworn that Brown had been always a monomaniac and had been intermittently insane for twenty years. The Man in Gray Actually, the availability of choice is so crucial that even when it is prevented by nature itself - and not by the designs of more or less sinister or monomaniac people - there can be no Utopia. Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema It was clear to both of them that his mind, weakened by long brooding over the one idea, had now at last become that of a monomaniac. The Doings of Raffles Haw Miss Hannay, I warn you that this man is a monomaniac. Rujub, the Juggler "Pshaw!" said Redclyffe, feeling the ridicule of the emotion into which he had been betrayed, as the old man's wildness of demeanor made him feel that he was talking with a monomaniac. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance With a monomaniac, conversation is apt to limit itself to monologue; so, while Henry was greatly interested in this odd talk, it left him but little to say. Young Lives And thus I shall soon become a monomaniac if I do not discover some remedy. With Zola in England His great wealth had clearly turned his brain, and made him a monomaniac. The Doings of Raffles Haw Like certain monomaniacs he had come to believe in his own inventions. An Antarctic Mystery It was doubtless the having dwelt too long among the musty and dusty clutter and litter of things gone by, that made the Doctor almost a monomaniac on this subject. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance No doubt, too, there were incarnate devils among these captains—actual monomaniacs of cruelty and viciousness—though none of these were known at Mrs. Blodgett's. Hawthorne and His Circle Stephen you are getting a monomaniac on these things. Marguerite Verne Great men smiled at the craze of the monomaniac. The Coming of the Friars And this is how experience teaches that we must deal with monomaniacs, whom we simply infuriate by contradiction, but whose delusion we can sometimes persuade to hang itself if we but give it sufficient rope. Life and Habit Merinos, though apparently estimable animals, are in reality dangerous monomaniacs, whose sole desire is to ruin the man that owns them. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life That I was a monomaniac has been admitted, perhaps not a moment too soon for the author's candor. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story Harry knew now that the old man was crazy, or at least a monomaniac, and, though he seemed harmless enough, it was of course possible that he might be dangerous. Bound to Rise He is all right now, only he is a monomaniac, and when he gets on that old subject he never stops till he has eat up that whole car-load of people he talks about. Sketches New and Old, Part 7. In fact, this loose-living but reformed seaman was becoming a monomaniac, and what is more, one of the religious type. She and Allan Having become almost a monomaniac in her dream of a Southern empire, she heard in scornful incredulity the rumor of defeat and disaster brought to her by her daughters. An Original Belle In lieu of the friend of his youth, for whom he had hoped a brilliant future, here was a poor monomaniac! Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 A monomaniac though he was on the subject of his identity with General Jackson, he knew how to make tea. Bound to Rise The closer the identification becomes, the more confirmed is the monomaniac in his madness, the character of which varies with the temperament of the individual. The Book of Were-Wolves Nobody would believe she was my ward, and nothing more, and I became a sort of monomaniac upon the subject. Darkness and Daylight But I think I was a monomaniac on the subject of matrimony. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story But, morally, I am convinced that he is a dangerous monomaniac; his mania being connected with some fixed idea which evidently never leaves him day or night. Basil Verily, Walter, you are a monomaniac on the subject of common sense; but, as for me, I will leave common sense to common people. Home Lights and Shadows The PARROCO'S thin lips, peaked nose, beady eyes and colourless cheeks proclaimed the anchorite, if not the monomaniac. South Wind The father looked at him with the face he was wont to assume in scanning the appearance of a confirmed monomaniac. The Woman Who Did I flattered myself that I was not only a reformed prisoner, but a reformed drunkard, and a thoroughly restored matrimonial monomaniac. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story This is the case with all monomaniacs; an hour comes in which the strange conceptions that have filled their brains can be no longer held in check. Monsieur Lecoq M. Daburon surveyed the detective pityingly, much as he would have looked at a remarkable monomaniac. The Widow Lerouge He had become a monomaniac, and his monomania was his rebellious heroine. A Rebellious Heroine Wherever there was a man, who had either a grain of faith in rubber or a little charity for a frail and penniless monomaniac, thither Goodyear made his way. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest As a matrimonial monomaniac I now looked upon myself as cured. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story It was no longer the whim of a monomaniac that kept them apart, but the dictates of law, honor, and the world. The Champdoce Mystery Each of them had his monomania; and the two monomaniac suited each other perfectly. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 These monomaniacs will make a mountain out of a mole-hill... and see their fancies as solid realities.... Crime and Punishment Usher, this boy is a monomaniac on the subject of my safety. Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller You know me well enough, Ik, to be aware that I am becoming almost a monomaniac in my art. A Face Illumined I am full of the fellow; a little more, and he'll make a monomaniac of me. Put Yourself in His Place His heart had never for one instant been disturbed by Mrs. Falcon's monstrous suspicion; he looked on her as a monomaniac; a sensible woman insane on one point, her husband. A Simpleton He was in the condition that overtakes some monomaniacs entirely concentrated upon one thing. Crime and Punishment Who but Germany, and that dangerous monomaniac who rules Germany? Michael They must further swear that they have one or both of them known him, off and on, for many years past, as a monomaniac with Sunchildism on the brain but otherwise harmless. Erewhon Revisited I have known people to be monomaniacs upon the subject of water, and to go nowhere without a glass of it in their hands. The Darrow Enigma Unless the man were mad, the idea was inconceivable; and even a monomaniac must betray himself in such a course, because he would necessarily conceive himself to be accomplishing some supreme act of justice. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Europe now is no more than a household engaged in holding up and if possible overpowering a monomaniac member. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war Tradition has decided that only half of humanity shall be monomaniac. What's Wrong with the World For if he is not to be the Sunchild, and not to be your poacher, he becomes a mere monomaniac. Erewhon Revisited This woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "Science," said la Peyrade, "is a fine thing, but it has, unfortunately, the attribute of making bears and monomaniacs." The Lesser Bourgeoisie Mr. Balfour's refusal is common knowledge, except to the monomaniac with his complex. A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge The world outside the home was one mass of narrowness, a maze of cramped paths, a madhouse of monomaniacs. What's Wrong with the World The patient suffers from monomania; very good, I am quite of that opinion," he said, "but he has two hundred thousand a year; monomaniacs of that kind are very uncommon. The Magic Skin He had become a monomaniac and an anarchist—not a philosophic anarchist, merely, but a violent anarchist. The Strength of the Strong No leader who had not been tampered with by the psychopathic monomaniacs could ever put any construction but the obvious and innocent one on these passages. Dark Lady of the Sonnets At the time it seemed to me I was a rational, responsible creature, but indeed I had not parted from her two days before I became a monomaniac to whom nothing could matter but Isabel. The New Machiavelli Shall all mankind be specialist surgeons or peculiar plumbers; shall all humanity be monomaniac? What's Wrong with the World If the gentleman was really interested in stamps, she said, probably supposing me a monomaniac on the point, he should see Mr. Denman's album. The Wrecker |
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