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She had grown quiet and gentle, and had none of the wild passions or fits of half-madness now.

From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry

He grew still and dull in the midst of that strange madness which all the time was only half-madness, a mixture of conscious excitement and anxiety with that which passes the boundaries of consciousness.

From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

But her eyes flashed and shone with that same—no, no, it could not be that in her face also was coming the look of half-madness!

From A Mountain Woman by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson

There was no excitement, nothing of the passion and half-madness with which he had faced Quade and Rann the night before.

From The Hunted Woman by Curwood, James Oliver