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  • He'd lost interest in the riddle of it for a long time, but the sight of the barn's demented roofing planks had reminded him that wood in all shapes could be mysterious and he'd resolved to try again.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER ONE:  Dudley Demented†   (source)
  • They looked evil, like giant, demented, human-eating insects wrapped in plastic.†   (source)
  • I would have been hard-pressed to imagine a more demented faux pas than to appear at the ball with a black drag queen on my arm.†   (source)
  • She made a demented face as she continued eating.†   (source)
  • I should know these things—I know them now The inexpressive voice comes from a demented man.†   (source)
  • A woman in a paisley apron was sweeping with demented vigor in front of her house through whose open door came the smell of fried breakfast.†   (source)
  • She is getting really demented and the only one she is nice to is her darling son who could never do anything wrong.†   (source)
  • What sort of demonstration, you demented freak?†   (source)
  • Thanks to you, I got to spend my entire Sunday having the quadratic formula drilled into me by my demented father, who kept rubbing his bald head and screaming in frustration when he found out I don't know how to multiply fractions.†   (source)
  • Vlad laughed dementedly.†   (source)
  • Was her mother demented thirty years before?†   (source)
  • There came the sound of horses screaming and a thousand demented children pounding on ten thousand tin pots as the French men-at-arms leaned into the rain of arrows to let their steel helmets and their chest and shoulder armor take the brunt of the downpour.†   (source)
  • Darrow called him "a poor demented imbecile."†   (source)
  • The thought was demented.†   (source)
  • But compared to these others, he seems almost like a regular, healthy, fit, demented bush-dwelling psychotic.†   (source)
  • This new expression was one of utter horror mingled with an almost demented hope.†   (source)
  • Courtney Love, in her demented destructionist way.†   (source)
  • So the sound she'd heard had been wings rather than demented passion.†   (source)
  • Then it was running, tearing down the hillside with demented abandon.†   (source)
  • It was a demented trip.†   (source)
  • And …. oh, yes — I've killed our grandfather, the demented old Baron.†   (source)
  • Chris remembers an address, but doesn't know how to get there, but reasons that if he asks enough people he will find the way and so says, "Stop the car," and gets out and asks directions and leads a demented Phaedrus through the endless walls of brick and broken glass.†   (source)
  • There was a bluebottle buzzing around, and for a minute we had a laugh playing "bluebottle tennis," throwing our hands about to make the demented creature go from one to the other of us.†   (source)
  • "You can't have any notion of how demented this is."†   (source)
  • You have to know how demented Dennis and Norton are to understand that when I told them Angelo Pignati caught on Lorraine was a phony and hung up, they believed it.†   (source)
  • Unless he is so evil or so demented, the truth about his actions has no power to disturb him.†   (source)
  • Summer has nearly two months to run, but the shooting field, covered in feathers, has a look of gray, demented autumn.†   (source)
  • My ears alert for any sound of trouble, my arms aching as I held my daughter close, my head spinning with unceasing prayer, I awaited my last moment, impotent against the rage of my demented husband.†   (source)
  • The, Dwarf, bearing his demented and wildly lighted eyes, made his way south on Main Street.†   (source)
  • He sings pop songs like a demented angel.†   (source)
  • Despite All Trepidation Despite the monster, fluttering in and out of my head like some demented moth, drawn to whatever light might be left there, despite Bree, demanding I find a way to get high, as if I had a clue where to get crank back here in Kristina Land, despite Leigh, helping me lug one suitcase, her hand annoyingly pinching mine with every tug, every pull, despite Jake, dropping the other suitcase down an entire flight of stairs, spilling shampoo, lotion, and tampons,…†   (source)
  • And photographers edging near and taking their spread stances and the first of the fans appearing on the field, the first strays standing wary or whirling about to see things from this perspective, astonished to find themselves at field level, or running right at Thomson all floppy and demented, milling into the wedge of players at home plate.†   (source)
  • He smiled, but his expression was off somehow, a grotesque and demented caricature of what it was supposed to be.†   (source)
  • "Only a she-dog in heat would be demented enough to come to my village and try to steal one of my little nieces," Madame Wang snapped.†   (source)
  • Enoch laughed dementedly.†   (source)
  • The sick, demented creatures behind me.†   (source)
  • You stood in the blackness and when they came with their baying hounds they thought her demented.†   (source)
  • Was he in some nightmare so real he had entered its dimensions, the horror of demented sleep, the fantasy of conjured, improvised terror turned into reality?†   (source)
  • But this savage, demented hostility was something she'd never before seen in a horse.†   (source)
  • He was operating not on reason but on a demented impulse of the heart.†   (source)
  • I think I was half prepared, in my dark, demented state, to see God, bearded and gray as geometry, scowling down at me, shaking his bloodless finger.†   (source)
  • The giant crack that splits the wall zigzags through the angel's face, making it look demented.†   (source)
  • It's demented, so it has to defeat itself.†   (source)
  • Luminous these were too, beautiful and yet horrible of shape, like the demented forms in an uneasy dream; and they gave forth a faint sickening charnel-smell; an odour of rottenness filled the air.†   (source)
  • The black masks surrounded him, all screaming, some of them laughing, but the insane, demented, and joyless laughter one would expect to hear in inaccessible wards of insane asylums.†   (source)
  • DEMENTED†   (source)
  • Their song, even if the product of a demented musician twisting wooden screws, was beautiful.†   (source)
  • She raised her head and eyed them speculatively for a moment, then waded back to shore, where she proceeded to act as if she had suddenly become demented.†   (source)
  • Only without the murder by the demented serial killer that followed.†   (source)
  • These honked high, low, high, low, over and over, like a demented musician playing his favorite two notes.†   (source)
  • Not a dream, he thought, nothing demented or unconscious or fanatic about it.†   (source)
  • PLAYER (lost) : There we were-demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance-and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air.†   (source)
  • In these demented fantasies I was prevented from immediate copulation on the Abercrombie & Fitch hammock only by the sudden arrival in the garden of Thornton Wilder.†   (source)
  • Theirs was the demented cruelty of egocentric children, and somehow this made their insensate beastliness much more heartbreaking.†   (source)
  • Above the town, clouds raced dementedly as if pursued, so low that their tatters almost caught the tops of the trees, which bent in the same direction so that they looked like brooms sweeping the sky.†   (source)
  • Never before had he seen her lose control like this; she looked quite demented.   (source)
    demented = insane (crazy)
  • One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger's spear behind it.   (source)
    demented = insane
  • ... and Luna, who was now wearing her free Spectrespecs, which gave her the look of a demented, multicolored owl.   (source)
    demented = crazy (affected by madness or extreme distress or anger)
  • He was a full-blooded Indian, untamed, illiterate, and endowed with quiet wiles and a messianic vocation that aroused a demented fanaticism in his men.   (source)
    demented = crazy (irrational)
  • He is absolutely mad for he has to pass through the barrage; but this lightning that lowers somewhere above us all has struck him and made him demented.   (source)
    demented = crazy
  • On the other hand, if Maryse looked angry, the Inquisitor looked positively demented.†   (source)
  • "I look like a demented carbonated fountain," he deadpanned.†   (source)
  • It was like some demented theology debate in the windier corners of chat-room limbo.†   (source)
  • She has a warped sense of humor as well as a demented beautician.†   (source)
  • Everyone demented with the mania of owning things.†   (source)
  • And if she was, did that mean her mother was not demented?†   (source)
  • "Demented cat," she said, rubbing with vigor.†   (source)
  • It was just some demented retiree who fired the shots.†   (source)
  • Carlos's demented mind was summoning up every tactic, every counteraction he had ever used.†   (source)
  • They had left behind the delicious coincidences of her coming in while he was taking a bath, when, despite the arguments and the poisonous eggplant, and despite his demented sisters and the mother who bore them, he still had enough love to ask her to soap him.†   (source)
  • "DON'T —" screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the burning house behind them — "CALL ME COWARD!"†   (source)
  • The champion pint drinker is always on the dole and sometimes he even drinks that and drives me so demented I wind up in the lunatic asylum.†   (source)
  • The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene.†   (source)
  • Nor did she cherish that dream again after her first formal fiance, whom she loved with the almost demented passion of which one is capable at the age of eighteen, broke the engagement one week before the date they had set for the wedding, and left her to wander the limbo of abandoned brides.†   (source)
  • There isn't enough coal to cook the dinner, the water isn't boiling anymore and she says she's demented with worry.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he's like my father and drinks the dole itself and that's why Nora Molloy is often carted off to the lunatic asylum demented with worry over her hungry famishing family.†   (source)
  • There, all around his father's walnut desk and the tufted leather easy chairs, he had lined the walls and even the windows with shelves behind glass doors, and had arranged in an almost demented order the three thousand volumes bound in identical calfskin with his initials in gold on the spines.†   (source)
  • Och, och, och, he says, and I wonder if he's going demented like Mrs. Molloy, in and out of the lunatic asylum, but he says, Is that what you were worried about last night?†   (source)
  • When he's older he'll go to the pub like his father, drink pints galore, stick the finger down the throat to bring it all up, drink more pints, win the bets and bring the money home to his mother to keep her from going demented.†   (source)
  • Peter says, Dear Miss Hope, I'm going out with a fellow from Ireland named McCaffrey and he has his hands all over me and his thing pushing against my belly button and I'm demented not knowing what to do.†   (source)
  • You had me demented.†   (source)
  • Its blade purred like a demented cat.†   (source)
  • It was curious that they all put up with it, his demented, frenetic tune, but no one said a word to him.†   (source)
  • "He was demented," says my father.†   (source)
  • Perhaps if he'd slept by the front door with a shotgun cocked in his elbow, ready to blow the head off of any demented maniac who dared step one foot in his home… He spent some of the time imagining how he might kill BoneMan.†   (source)
  • He's become a real friend, not to mention an ear for my semi-demented ramblings, mostly about Trey, who still hasn't learned to call.†   (source)
  • The demented soul who was my physical therapist laughed and high-fived me the first time I burst into tears when I was rehabbing my knee.†   (source)
  • Furious, she gave him her widest, brightest smile-holding it long enough to make him shift with unease-and then curtsied as deeply as a servant, never letting her demented grimace waver.†   (source)
  • And you hurried with him full of doubt to the cabin designated by the stranger, where he met that seemingly demented black man ….†   (source)
  • Are you demented?†   (source)
  • I also know that if even one of us drinks your water, the whole land will be turned over to those sick, demented creatures, as you call them, and we will become your slaves.†   (source)
  • I could barely hear the sweet, wet sound of exploding heads between his snoring, the irritating tick-tock of the cuckoo clock, and Trish whistling in the kitchen like a demented mockingbird.†   (source)
  • My first attempt with the circle cost me the best part of a day, gave me severe eyestrain, and resulted in a seizure in the lumbar region as a result of spending too many hours crouched like a demented rabbit over the circle, while plucking plantlets with a pair of tweezers.†   (source)
  • Bless their demented little hearts, I understood where they'd gotten the ridiculous weapons: the toy store on Charles Street.†   (source)
  • There were photographs from various parties, and if she had been sober then, she would have recognized that she looked completely demented.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, the clatter of swords or the scream of a wounded man broke through the uproar, accompanied by snatches of demented laughter.†   (source)
  • And you recall how you plunged with the Founder, the Leader, deep into the black art of escape, guided at first, indeed, initiated, by the seemingly demented one who had learned his craft in slavery.†   (source)
  • Shouldering his pack, Eragon trotted down through the crown of oak trees and away from the cluster of five hills and the demented spellcaster who resided among them.†   (source)
  • And always the demented giggling of men who knew they were dead and yet continued to maintain a semblance of life even while the Varden destroyed their bodies.†   (source)
  • I had never met the man, but many of my white friends had pictured him as a malignant tumor, demented, loco, a drug addict, an incompetent, a carpetbagger, an unregenerated liar who should have his gonads cut off and hung like two trophies in the chamber of commerce building.†   (source)
  • I gazed at the ceiling in the opalescent light, listening to the ululation of a police siren on the street below; it grew louder, uglier, demented.†   (source)
  • While I lay there in my room's peppermint-candy glow and the afternoon minutes crept by, my sickness joined company with a kind of half-demented disbelief.†   (source)
  • Had Fink got in touch with Larry earlier, the doctor would have been there within minues; he was the only person on earth who could have dealt with his demented brother, and I am certain that if he had been called, the outcome of this story would have been a different one.†   (source)
  • …whispered rhyme repeated again and again—"Don't be a teaser, Irma Griese—" even with his hand remorselessly twisting her hair as if from its roots, even with his other hand at her shoulder clamped down with sickening pain and force, even with the pervasive sense he transmits, lying there, shuddering, of a man far over the brink and prowling his own demented underworld—even with the feverish fright engulfing her she cannot help but feel the old delectable pleasure as she sucks him.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, she looked demented and wore a crown, a scepter in one hand and a rose in the other.†   (source)
  • So eager was this demented savage to rape and kill that he forgot the only thing that might have helped him to escape" that is, the money he had stolen from the dead body of Mary Dalton, which was in the pocket of Bessie Mears" dress.†   (source)
  • I wondered if she were demented.†   (source)
  • And as they sat there in the hot little room with its warm odor of mellowing apples, the vast winds howled down from the hills, there was a roaring in the pines, remote and demented, the bare boughs clashed.†   (source)
  • For months she had been asking herself what strategy could reconcile this half-demented boy to living among them again.†   (source)
  • Two demented land creatures struggling on the vast water, head to head, putting out all the strength they had.†   (source)
  • Mother has been almost demented ever since father died—she's an old woman.†   (source)
  • Another pause, and he broke out again like one demented.†   (source)
  • He gave such a strange account of himself that he was supposed demented.†   (source)
  • Go and support poor Mr. Beebe--, he is nearly demented.†   (source)
  • "I've heard she's partially demented," said Arobin.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, I cannot help thinking he has been less demented of late.†   (source)
  • He will think I am demented, no doubt.†   (source)
  • She imagined that the demented boy had wandered away from his friends or keepers; so she tried to find out whence he had come, in order that she might take measures to return him; but all her references to neighbouring towns and villages, and all her inquiries in the same line went for nothing—the boy's face, and his answers, too, showed that the things she was talking of were not familiar to him.†   (source)
  • We're nearly demented."†   (source)
  • Maybe the man in the cassock had not been really so demented, and had meant to lead K.'s way to the preacher, which in this empty church would have been very necessary.†   (source)
  • From the moment the word death in connection with Roberta had been used by Mason, the mental state of Alden was that of one not a little demented.†   (source)
  • I drifted—a demented man.†   (source)
  • Then, after a moment, he turned questioningly and erratically toward the front door of the house at which he gazed as one might who was wholly demented.†   (source)
  • And once there and in the presence of the body along with Titus, Burton Burleigh, Heit and Earl Newcomb, he was able to decide for himself, even while Titus, half demented, gazed upon the features of his child, first that she truly was Roberta Alden and next as to whether he considered her of the type who would wantonly yield herself to such a liaison as the registration at Grass Lake seemed to indicate.†   (source)
  • I was demented, dreaming of wild, impossible things, recalling men who had set their wives free, we have heard of such things.†   (source)
  • Every living creature there held life as of no account, and was demented with a passionate readiness to sacrifice it.†   (source)
  • Mr. George, who has been looking first at one of them and then at the other, as if he were demented, takes his venerable acquaintance by the throat on receiving this request, and dragging him upright in his chair as easily as if he were a doll, appears in two minds whether or no to shake all future power of cushioning out of him and shake him into his grave.†   (source)
  • I went below just as another projectile scraped the Nautilus's hull, and I heard the captain exclaim: "Shoot, you demented vessel!†   (source)
  • I thought to myself, surely I must get rid of a demented man, who already has in some degree turned the tongues, if not the heads of myself and clerks.†   (source)
  • "Here is an extraordinary exhibition for a forest, and one but half-gifted with reason," he observed with a decided Scotch accent, as Warley and the ensign entered; "I just hope, gentlemen, that when we three shall be called on to quit the 20th, we may be found as resigned to go on the half pay of another existence, as this poor demented chiel!"†   (source)
  • I dug eagerly, and now and then caught myself actually looking, with something that very much resembled expectation, for the fancied treasure, the vision of which had demented my unfortunate companion.†   (source)
  • When his fellow saw that, he ran away as he were wood [*demented], for fear of the horrible strokes, and Sir Launcelot after him with all his might, and smote him on the shoulder, and clave him to the middle.†   (source)
  • How could I bring myself to be happy, when Frank must be demented with worry?†   (source)
  • He has recently escaped from Dr Eustace's private asylum for demented gentlemen.†   (source)
  • The English meaning of the word is preserved in /mad-house/ and /mad-dog/, but I have often noticed that American rustics, employing the latter term, derive from it a vague notion, not that the dog is demented, but that it is in a simple fury.†   (source)
  • Round the side of the Evening Telegraph he just caught a fleeting glimpse of her face round the side of the door with a kind of demented glassy grin showing that she was not exactly all there, viewing with evident amusement the group of gazers round skipper Murphy's nautical chest and then there was no more of her.†   (source)
  • They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.†   (source)
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