brainsick
adjective
insane; crazy; mad.
brainsickly
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a word derived from
brainsick.
Example Sentences
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Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things—Go, get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand.—
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength to think So brainsickly of things.—Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand.—
From Macbeth by William Shakespeare
"You do unbend your noble strength, my lord!" she said, "to think so brainsickly of things!" throwing into the word, "brainsickly," exaggerated stage-rant.
From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by John Esten Cooke
Why, worthy Thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things.—Go, get some water, &c. &c.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
What they produce in us will be not interest but a kind of wondering weariness—weariness at the weary fate of men who could 'think so brainsickly of things.'
From Is Life Worth Living? by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
