"Insane asylum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on heredity when in the audience sat a young man by the side of his fiancee, who, I was afterwards told, had been in an insane asylum three times, and yet he ...
— What a Young Woman Ought to Know • Mary Wood-Allen
... laws and customs, a man may spend half his life in the insane asylum or in the penitentiary, and still be the father of a dozen children with degenerate tendencies. There should be no reproduction from convicted criminals, insane persons, and other degenerates. Thieves, grafters, bribers and bribe-takers ...
— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins
... alone with us? that will never do! You must take her away directly,—at least to the Insane Asylum,—somewhere! What if she should grow wild while you were gone? She might kill us all! I will go in and tell her that she ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various
... do not expect to carry him in the carriage?" answered the gentleman, staring at her, as if she had been a refugee from some insane asylum. ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... entangled and scattered by an invisible and mysterious anguish." The dreaded disease developed until, in 1890, he had to suspend his writing. In 1892 he became wholly insane and had to be committed to an insane asylum where he died in a ...
— Short-Stories • Various
... of her confinement every month of his life, sobered, chastened, at first hopeful, defiant. At the bottom of his heart Barode Barouche did not want marital freedom. He had loved the mad woman. He remembered her in the glory of her youth, in the splendour of her beauty. The insane asylum did ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... the Metropolis of Pork. Grafton offers us the accommodations of another of the company's hotels, where, as at Cumberland, we are daintily and tenderly fed. At Parkersburg we find another superb bridge, over a mile in length; at Athens an imposing insane asylum, to take care of us if all these engineering wonders have deprived us of our senses; and finally in Cincinnati, just a day after our departure from Baltimore, the gleam of the Ohio River and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... lapse of three weeks Cleary received the sad news that Sam had shown unmistakable signs of insanity and had been removed to an insane asylum. His father wrote that while his insanity was of a mild form, the doctors thought it best for him to be placed in an institution where he could receive the most scientific treatment. Six months later Cleary, who was now one of the ...
— Captain Jinks, Hero • Ernest Crosby |
