"Mad" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Nehushta. "Are you mad, girl, to talk so loud? I though I heard a sound upon the ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... bushes. Under this vegetation snakes, lizards, and horned toads bask all day and search for food at night. If travellers wander from the road in crossing the desert, they are easily lost, and sometimes they die or go mad in the terrible heat. There are no springs, and water stations are a long way apart, so that lost people usually die of thirst. As the heat of the sun's rays quivers over the burning sands, a curious sight called a mirage ...
— Stories of California • Ella M. Sexton
... bit mad, no, Papa, and to prove it, the very next day, When she ran past our fence in the morning I happened to get in her way,— For you know I am "chunked" and clumsy, as she says are all boys of my size,— And she nearly upset ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte
... Miss Wimple remained standing on the spot, gazing anxiously, but vacantly, toward the door by which the half-mad lady had departed,—her soft, deep eyes full of painful apprehension. Then she resumed her little rocking-chair, and, as she gathered up her work from the floor where she had dropped it, tears trickled down her cheeks; she sighed and shook ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various
... Paddy Button. "The Poetry of Learning" chapter echoes Alice's dialogue with the caterpillar. Like the wily creature smoking a hookah, Paddy smokes a pipe and shouts "Hurroo!" as the children teach him to write his name in the sand. The children lose "all count of time," just as the Mad Hatter does. Whereas Alice grows nine feet taller, Dick sprouts "two inches taller" and Emmeline "twice as plump." Like the baby in the "Pig and Pepper," Hannah sneezes at the first sight of Dicky. The novel ...
— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole
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