like mad
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Like mad, his breath rushes from his staved-in chest, and Love, drenched in tears of snow, thaws upon the peaks of the cattle-lands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like mad Nebuchadnezzar, who sheeplike browsed Babylon's pastures, U.S. parachute troops and other isolated forces can subsist on leaves, wood and grass.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like mad the whole twenty-two players darted for the yellow spheroid.
From The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for the Silver Cup by Forbes, Graham B
If a wire grounds And interpenetrates the granite blocks With viewless fire, horses shod with steel, Walking along the granite blocks will leap Like mad things in the air.
From Domesday Book by Masters, Edgar Lee
Like mad she ran across the clearing, through a thicket, and out again and away.
From The Innocent Adventuress by Bradley, Mary Hastings
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