bedlamite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bedlamite
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I had been captured as the stray bedlamite from Hamilton jail.
From International Short Stories American by Various
Some of the men of the town said that the two pilgrims were outlandish and bedlamite men, but Hopeful took courage to reprove some of the foremost of the mob.
From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte
It was a tangle of bedlamite ravings, with long screeds from the Scriptures intermixed like currants in a bag-pudding.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
The devil take the bedlamite old woman," said the counsellor; "will she not let things take their course, prout de lege, but must always be putting in her oar in her own way?—Then,
From Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
Left to herself, Saxon worked with frantic haste, assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor.
From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
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