And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
A brainsick fool who would make such an offer could perhaps be edged upward yet again. From Wordnik.com. [Flight in Yiktor]
With neither brainsick Trooper Qeengat nor the dead female able to contradict his story, he could be very persuasive. From Wordnik.com. [Sliding Scales]
Tecmessa's heart, even the Chorus sadly admitting that death is the best for a brainsick man, born of the highest blood, no longer true to his character. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
"For why art thou become so distraught and brainsick, that thou wilt choose to tend the flock of another, and be counted among the servants of monsters, sooner than encourage our marriage-troth with fitting and equal consent?". From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Wily is witty, brainsick is wise; wiliness is counted. From Wordnik.com. [England's Antiphon]
I hope so, for I would fain think some sunny thought of the poor brainsick folk. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference
Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much if the man be not brainsick. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
For in that case he is guilty of no crime against you; it is I that am mad and brainsick to accuse him now. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1] Reference
And this man, at once unprincipled and brainsick, had in his keeping the understanding and the conscience of the unhappy Monmouth. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference
If you don't like it, then you are probably brainsick because it's my sweet cleavage (and not LiLo's arrogant rants) that rules the roost in and around the blogosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Coolcelebs] Reference
See Sir what your Ruffian tricks come too, you thinke the eye of wisedome doo's not see, into the brainsick follies of vaine heades, but with your swaggering, you can bear't away. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Thomas More] Reference
Calculating men who have thought only of the interest of the priesthood, have known well how best to stimulate and to display the spasmodic movements of a brainsick disinterestedness. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
This year, Oracle unabashedly closes the gap between imagination and realism in the gallery of a brainsick artist who has turned human anatomy into a medium of gruesome, surgical sculpture. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
Oh that I had employed myself in those severities, that I then laughed at as the need less, affected practices of brainsick, melancholy persons! my work had not been now to do, when my time of working is expired. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference
In those days there were crowds of people who were all brainsick with litigation, and now they rest in peace; today the plaintiff would be defeated and the defendant victorious, tomorrow the plaintiff won the case and the defendant lost it — but now this excellent practice has been abandoned too. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of Divine Civilization] Reference
985: Such brainsick phantasies lives most at ease. From Wordnik.com. [Oedipus the King] Reference
A man; nor even seem to do much, if the man be not brainsick. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
See to him, Vallancey; he is brainsick with the fumes of war. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Wilding] Reference
Thou art brainsick, surely. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference
Why -- what a brainsick vagabond art thou!. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
Such brainsick phantasies lives most at ease. From Wordnik.com. [Oedipus Trilogy] Reference
The brainsick words of sophists: Antisthenes. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of King Henry VI] Reference
And brainsick poets long for shelt'ring groves. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrations of Sterne, with other essays and verses] Reference
And brainsick passion. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference
When, first, the brainsick fury seiz'd him, fell. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
Un·hinged adj : affected with madness or insanity; syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
# Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Ron Paul 2012 | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul] Reference
He called the Puritans, in Bunker's words, "rash, brainsick, and heady, vain, proud, and pharisaical, ungrateful, fanatical, seditious, and conceited" - worse, he said, than cattle thieves, they were "very pestes in the Churche & common-weale.". From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Deare daughter, I make no question to the contrary, but it must needes be an exceeding infelicity, to so faire and goodly a young woman as you are, to be plagued with so sottish an husband, brainsick, and without the use of common understanding; but yet subject to a more hellish affliction then all these, namely jealousie, and therefore you being in this wofull manner tormented, your tribulations are not only so much the more credited, but also as amply grieved for, and pittied. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
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