like mad
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Like mad, his breath rushes from his staved-in chest, and Love, drenched in tears of snow, thaws upon the peaks of the cattle-lands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like mad Nebuchadnezzar, who sheeplike browsed Babylon's pastures, U.S. parachute troops and other isolated forces can subsist on leaves, wood and grass.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like mad the whole twenty-two players darted for the yellow spheroid.
From The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for the Silver Cup by Forbes, Graham B
Like mad creatures they tore up the hill, across the road and into the manse.
From Rainbow Valley by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Like mad bulls, they are attracted by the quiescent warmth of fiery-red; and, having attained it, tear it to pieces in their passion.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
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