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Instead he puts on pop-eyed fits, refers to the asylum darkly as "that place," protests too much in trying to give an accurate picture of a half-cured madman.

From Time Magazine Archive

He became disenchanted about the first two, and out of this half-cured 19th century disenchantment he created his 20th century art�as tragic and as comic and perhaps ultimately as mystifying as life itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

This gold badge was not unlike the metal badges worn on the left arm by "Bedlam beggars," the licensed beggars of Bethlehem Hospital, the half-cured patients of that asylum for lunatics.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

He got cured, or at least half-cured, in some extraordinary way; but ever since then he has been a skeleton.

From The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories by Hearn, Lafcadio

He smelled of oil, and smoke, and half-cured hides; yet he met me as a ruler meets an ambassador.

From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott