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More "Loony" Quotes from Famous Books



... half intoxicated with sleep, had taken for a chamber and I had urinated in it. This was repeated. Another time, also at full moon, I wet a colleague's shoe. They all said that I must be a little loony. When the full moon came, I was always afraid that I might do this again, an anxiety which remained long with me. I never dared sleep, for example, so that the full moon could shine directly upon me. Yes; still something else. Two or three years later the following happened, only I do ...
— Sleep Walking and Moon Walking - A Medico-Literary Study • Isidor Isaak Sadger

... t' tell him myself," asserted Barber. "But up t' now, it wasn't no story t' be tellin' a little kid—leastways, not a kid that's got a loony way o' seein' things, and worryin' over 'em. And I warn y'! Y're likely as not ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates

... it is. No flour, but plenty of good wheat and corn. I always pound it up and bake it, but it is coarse fare for women. There's plenty of game for the hunting, and easy got, but it's something to think about we'll need, else we'll all go loony." ...
— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine

... awaiting the message that should speed his departure. Mr. Humphreys, then, cannot be blamed for complaining with feeling and profanity that of all the damidjits he had ever seen in his life, Peter Champneys was about the worst. Loony was no name for him, and what was to become of such a chump he didn't know. "If this thing keeps up, he'll be drooling before he's forty, and we'll have to hire a nigger to feed him out of a papspoon," ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler

... "I wonder who's loony now?" hummed Dave to himself, as he marched briskly along on his way to the office of the officer in charge. There be picked up two of the report slips, dipping a ...
— Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock

... old man, taking upon himself the burden of the explanation. "None of us up here ever saw the gal before. Neither Prudence nor me nor Ida May. She's loony!" ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper

... them. 'I'm the finest apple on the tree,' yet no one has picked them for all their labels, because every one has guessed that they aren't—That crab apple labelling itself a pippin and daring to laugh at you! And that long loony Silas Grangerson, a man without a penny to bless himself with, a creature whose character is just kinks. Well, I'm sure—pass me the butter—laughing at you. And what were they laughing at pray? Aren't you straight and the best looking man in Charleston? ...
— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole

... way among decent business people now? Why, when Marise and I were first trying to get it clear in our own heads, we kept it pretty dark, I tell you, that we weren't in it only for what money we could make, because we knew how loony we'd seem to anybody else. But don't you see any signs that lately maybe the same idea is striking lots of ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher









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