bedlamite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bedlamite
Example Sentences
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Up the steep, narrow lane we ran with that bedlamite crowd at our heels.
From Greenmantle by Buchan, John
I see now where the present bedlamite style of coiffure comes from.
From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Alcott, Louisa May
It isn’t my fault that they are associated with nothing better at the decisive moment than the banal splendours of a gilded café and the bedlamite yells of carnival in the street.
From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Conrad, Joseph
I had been captured as the stray bedlamite from Hamilton jail.
From International Short Stories American by Various
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 London, Jack
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