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deranged as in:  a deranged madman

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  • The deranged killer had a twisted view of reality.
  • I told her what I remembered and asked her, bluntly, if I was deranged.   (source)
    deranged = crazy
  • He stormed and frothed, seeming completely deranged.   (source)
    deranged = crazy (out of control)
  • They were about anger and hurt so extreme that rational thought was thrown out the window—these were people so deranged by frustration that they were burning down their own neighborhood.   (source)
    deranged = with thinking out of control
  • That they were giving an award named after a beloved prime minister who had been tragically murdered by a deranged man to someone who represented people on death row revealed a lot about their values.   (source)
    deranged = crazy
  • Within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting.   (source)
  • Black is deranged, Molly, and he wants Harry dead.   (source)
  • She looked at him as if he were deranged.   (source)
  • I can hear myself-I'm mumbling like a deranged drunk.   (source)
    deranged = mentally imbalanced
  • Everyone could hear, couldn't they? the derangement in his voice.   (source)
    derangement = craziness
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  • If I didn't get a date, he'd stand off on one side with me all night long, firing questions like some deranged prosecutor.   (source)
    deranged = mentally imbalanced
  • In some deranged way, Alex, I think I understand you.   (source)
  • Now, I believe you would consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct?   (source)
  • You are mentally deranged.   (source)
    deranged = imbalanced (crazy)
  • So Wilson was reduced to a man "deranged by grief" in order that the case might remain in its simplist form.   (source)
    deranged = mentally imbalanced
  • I cannot say why I felt so wildly wretched: it must have been temporary derangement; for there is scarcely cause.   (source)
    derangement = mental imbalance
  • The conclusion of this speech convinced my father that my ideas were deranged, and he instantly changed the subject of our conversation and endeavoured to alter the course of my thoughts.   (source)
    deranged = crazy
  • This deranging flash came to her even before the Gestapo agents—half a dozen or more—clambered onto the car and ordered everyone down to the street.†   (source)
  • I was listening for the sound of footsteps in the hall, and when I heard them I became deranged.   (source)
    deranged = mentally imbalanced
  • Snape shouted, looking suddenly quite deranged.   (source)
    deranged = crazy
  • After a week, Luke did feel deranged.   (source)
    deranged = mentally imbalanced
  • Though there were hundreds of POWs in camp, this deranged corporal was fixated on Louie, hunting the former Olympian, whom he would call "number one prisoner."   (source)
  • To myself, however, I made a number of swift, automatic calculations: that Leper was no threat, no one would ever believe Leper; Leper was deranged, he was not of sound mind and if people couldn't make out their own wills when not in sound mind certainly they couldn't testify in something like this.   (source)
    deranged = crazy
  • Quite a few were deranged.   (source)
    deranged = mentally imbalanced
  • His last campaign, in the Pennsylvania town of Altoona, had met with heckling, meager attendance, and a hollering, deranged choir member who had had to be thrown out of his services, only to return repeatedly, like a fly to spilled jelly.   (source)
  • 'Why, ma'am,' I answered, 'the master has no idea of your being deranged; and of course he does not fear that you will let yourself die of hunger.'   (source)
  • The uncle had placed his two hands to his mouth to form a trumpet, and was about to give the promised hail, when a rapid movement from the hand of Arrowhead defeated the intention by deranging the instrument.†   (source)
  • She is not rich, but offers such and such little recompenses for the little cares and derangements of such services; and I graciously—to do everything graciously is a part of my character—consent to accept them.†   (source)
  • His mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged expression in her eyes.   (source)
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deranged as in:  deranged hair

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  • She slipped on a bathrobe, ran fingers through her deranged hair, and answered the door.
    deranged = disordered
  • I was anxious and slept badly, but when Mother came home the next morning, hair deranged and dark circles under her eyes, her lips were parted in a wide smile.   (source)
    deranged = in disorder
  • Then new arrivals deranged the line, and Jordan and I were pushed suddenly inside.   (source)
    deranged = upset
  • Hannah was out of humor because her week's work was deranged, and prophesied that "ef the washin' and ironin' warn't done reg'lar, nothin' would go well anywheres".   (source)
  • "How very easily alarmed you are!" he answered, removing his cloak and hanging it up against the door, towards which he again coolly pushed the mat which his entrance had deranged.   (source)
    deranged = put in disorder
  • He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.   (source)
    derange = upset
  • She was wild to be at home—to hear, to see, to be upon the spot to share with Jane in the cares that must now fall wholly upon her, in a family so deranged, a father absent, a mother incapable of exertion, and requiring constant attendance; and though almost persuaded that nothing could be done for Lydia, her uncle's interference seemed of the utmost importance, and till he entered the room her impatience was severe.   (source)
    deranged = in disorder
  • No one knew me, for I disguised my voice, and no one dreamed of the silent, haughty Miss March (for they think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers) could dance and dress, and burst out into a 'nice derangement of epitaphs, like an allegory on the banks of the Nile'.   (source)
    derangement = disorderly arrangement
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  • She was too deranged, not only that, she was violent.†   (source)
  • I felt like King Tut, except that I was alive and trapped in the mausoleum with a deranged koala.†   (source)
  • Ye saw that the forest below the peak continued to fall to the deranged logging by her former comrades.†   (source)
  • And there are indecencies even more bizarre: onanists breaking a sweat on monkeys, ponies, birds; a religious freak who cut a snake's head off; a deranged man who took to urinating in an elk's mouth.†   (source)
  • The desperate nature of the scrawl suggested that a deranged woman was roaming the lanes, contemplating harm to herself or others.†   (source)
  • Its outsized jaws were its main feature, a bulging enclosure of teeth as tall and sharp as little steak knives that the flesh of its mouth was hopeless to contain, so that its lips were perpetually drawn back in a deranged smile.†   (source)
  • I think he'll always be there just enough to be screaming on the inside, deranged and suffering every shuck second of it.†   (source)
  • If an old man may be forgiven his blunt speech, let me say that grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds, and the Lady Lysa was never that.†   (source)
  • And the child — the child — " Lupin actually seized handfuls of his own hair; he looked quite deranged.†   (source)
  • One is being practically dragged out by a second, and the third wanders in loopy circles, as if deranged.†   (source)
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  • He pushed away these vivid, daylight thoughts of her, not wanting to arrive feeling deranged.†   (source)
  • I'm not deranged.†   (source)
  • Go play lab rat for these deranged scientists, Cinder.'†   (source)
  • Less deranged.†   (source)
  • I looked around, trying to get my bearings, deranged from the crack on the head, with no sense of time or even if it was day or night.†   (source)
  • It drew her closer into New York's deranged womb.†   (source)
  • The fragrance coming off your skin...I thought it would make me deranged that first day.†   (source)
  • The Amity must be deranged if this is how they really think.†   (source)
  • A bristling fox is better than a deranged, half-shod idiot.†   (source)
  • But her action carries symbolic significance; we understand it not only as the literal action of a single, momentarily deranged woman but as an action that speaks for the experience of a race at a certain horrific moment in history, as a gesture explained by whip scars on her back that take the form of a tree, as the product of the sort of terrible choice that only characters in our great mythic stories—a Jocasta, a Dido, a Medea—are driven to make.†   (source)
  • As though she thought I was completely deranged.†   (source)
  • But her eyes were deranged.†   (source)
  • The kids flying by on bicycles steer clear of this barefoot old woman in her plastic babushka, but I can tell you she is not deranged.†   (source)
  • But it was not long before we began to hear of an outfit called al Qaeda in Iraq, a malicious terrorist group trying to cause mayhem at every conceivable opportunity, led by the deranged Jordanian killer Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (now deceased).†   (source)
  • I'm on one knee with my notepad out, an easy target for someone who's deranged or high or angry that a stranger is here asking personal questions.†   (source)
  • I suppose it took a moment for him to process why he was being fawned over by a grungy, half-deranged boy with acne.†   (source)
  • What about me was so deranged that in less than half an hour a doctor would pack me off to the nuthouse?†   (source)
  • He had dealt with burglars, drug dealers, rapists, and one deranged bomber.†   (source)
  • He jumped the stairs leading down to the operating floor, bounding side to side like a deranged jackrabbit.†   (source)
  • Following what 01well described as his "blood-chilling exchange" with Woodall in Pheriche, the editor was "persuaded ...that the atmosphere of the expedition was deranged and that the Sunday Times staffers, Ken Vernon and Richard Shorey, might be in danger of their lives."†   (source)
  • She dreamed of deranged baby-sitters and oozing aliens.†   (source)
  • Finally I let it out: I throw my head back and laugh hysterically, cackling and snorting and not even caring if I look deranged.†   (source)
  • A deranged per son was escorted from the bank by two armed guards.†   (source)
  • Either it did not derange his senses enough, or he was already more than sufficiently deranged.†   (source)
  • All the monkeys in these cages were infected with Ebola virus, and most of them were silent, passive, and withdrawn, although one or two of them seemed queerly deranged.†   (source)
  • I hated Coach and his deranged assignments.†   (source)
  • He may be deranged, but his brilliance is none the less for it.†   (source)
  • The quality of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me.†   (source)
  • Graham and a few of the Arcadians stood over her, a deranged gleam in their eyes.†   (source)
  • When she was growing up, some of her friends had extolled the joys of camping, but she'd thought they were deranged.†   (source)
  • He was deranged by a scent he could have escaped.†   (source)
  • One assassination attempt has already been made on King, when a deranged black woman stabbed him in the chest in 1958, and there are constant fears that the reverend will one day be lynched during his travels through the Deep South.†   (source)
  • He was obviously deranged.†   (source)
  • One of the new arrivals from the FCI was Morena, a Spanish woman who looked like a deranged Mayan princess.†   (source)
  • Sensational headlines announced the handiwork of a sadistic, deranged, completely new kind of killer.†   (source)
  • The place I settled into was an old four-unit apartment building where passersby were prone to steal the mail—the mail police told me so in a letter, which they mailed to me at home, risking it—and the washing machine danced back and forth in the closet like a mentally deranged great-aunt.†   (source)
  • A mob of men and women, all screaming and shouting, ran about wildly, crossing each other's paths, and intercepting each other as if deranged.†   (source)
  • Nodding my head in agreement to myself, but nodding more to the deranged woman at the nurses' station, who continued to act as if she was engaged in more important matters, it no longer fazed me.†   (source)
  • Even the Boston drivers, famously deranged, don't honk much when passing through the neighborhood.†   (source)
  • "This, in all probability," he later wrote, "would have dispersed the Congress, and ...deranged all their affairs."†   (source)
  • Dobbs was almost as bad as Orr, who seemed happy as an undersized, grinning lark with his deranged and galvanic giggle and shivering warped buck teeth and who was sent along for a rest leave with Milo and Yossarian on the trip to Cairo for eggs when Milo bought cotton instead and took off at dawn for Istanbul with his plane packed to the gun turrets with exotic spiders and unripened red bananas.†   (source)
  • This was a construct of a deranged military establishment cynically bent on extracting the maximum utility from its issen gorin.†   (source)
  • His deranged male mind misunderstood and he kissed my cheek.†   (source)
  • When he spoke, he sounded like a deranged Mickey Mouse.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's just the deranged cackling of a very unstable girl, but I don't care, because it feels good and I don't think I could control it now if I tried.†   (source)
  • "I was desperate, and I was deranged," she said.†   (source)
  • She said you appeared deranged, that your eyes became glazed and you uttered words in a language she could not understand.†   (source)
  • Then he rose and stumbled to his truck, coughing, retching, and yelling in terror like a man suddenly deranged.†   (source)
  • What Amos tells them seems like the happy babbling of a harmlessly deranged man, but babbling nonetheless, and from one who was but a few minutes ago a scientist of serious—if not brooding—disposition.†   (source)
  • I remember the depot crew standing there looking at me like I was deranged, but they loaded the lathe onto the truck for me.†   (source)
  • It was desperate and deranged and even intermittently enjoyable.†   (source)
  • The barracks was inundated in an ocean of sound, a maelstrom of the human voice straining toward absolute limits, toward nullity, toward inconceivable thresholds of derangement.†   (source)
  • At this, ANNIE again rises, recovers HELEN'S plate from the floor and a handful of scattered food from the deranged tablecloth, drops it on the plate, and pushes the plate into contact with HELEN'S fist.†   (source)
  • I am semi-deranged.†   (source)
  • —sometimes I think of doing downright deranged things.†   (source)
  • The seriously ill, the deranged, are another race, an inferior race.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were still on me, filled with a disappointment so ferocious that she looked deranged.†   (source)
  • But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.†   (source)
  • Salander looked just as deranged as her casebook indicated.†   (source)
  • Some believe Baelor was deranged by all that venom.†   (source)
  • Neela is up, her voice slicked with fury, her mouth twisted in a deranged smile.†   (source)
  • Only someone seriously deranged would do that.†   (source)
  • Jorge wore a headband and looked sexually deranged.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, a deranged global vision," I said sourly.†   (source)
  • Abee cocked his head to one side, staring, looking deranged.†   (source)
  • She is not a deranged killer, he reminded himself.†   (source)
  • He had stared at her, wondering whether she was deranged, but politely he played along.†   (source)
  • You're looking a little deranged, Angel.†   (source)
  • We noted that he bled easily from puncture sites, and he had deranged liver functions.†   (source)
  • His mind at times was much deranged.... He was no man's enemy but his own.†   (source)
  • Either it did not derange his senses enough, or he was already more than sufficiently deranged.†   (source)
  • Deranged, but not because she was unkempt or wild in her overall appearance.†   (source)
  • I had a lovely visit with my mother that Mother's Day—although the visiting room was deranged.†   (source)
  • My Presbyterian rearing had surely not anticipated such a derangement.†   (source)
  • Now that he's deranged.†   (source)
  • So the consensus was that I was just supposed to forget that a deranged vampire was stalking me, intent on my death.†   (source)
  • Dr. Jordan was of the added opinion that this other self gave strong manifestations of its continued existence during her period of mental derangement in 1852, if the eyewitness reports of Mrs. Moodie and others are any indication.†   (source)
  • After four deranged years Jimmy graduated from Martha Graham with his dingy little degree in Problematics.†   (source)
  • If you see someone spouting nonsense to themselves in an alleyway in Tarbean, odds are they're not actually crazy, just a sweet-eater deranged by too much denner.†   (source)
  • The dragger stamps the ground in frustration and, in an apparent fit of temper, turns and shoves the circling, deranged one over.†   (source)
  • One night as I sat on the floor rocking, sleepless, deranged by exhaustion, cradling this innocent wreck of a baby, I just started to talk out loud.†   (source)
  • No, not deranged, I remind myself.†   (source)
  • THAT DAY, AND THE next day or two, flopping around in a bewilderingly soft pair of Welty's old pyjamas, were so topsy-turvy and deranged with fever that repeatedly I found myself back at Port Authority running away from people, dodging through crowds and ducking into tunnels with oily water dripping on me or else in Las Vegas again on the CAT bus, riding through windwhipped industrial plazas with blown sand hitting the windows and no money to pay my fare.†   (source)
  • This deranged twin has risen from Nathaniel's darkest depths, and Lamp employees hurry through the door again to see if I'm in danger.†   (source)
  • It wasn't entirely their fault, though, that the whole thing spun out of control like a deranged top.†   (source)
  • What I understand is that Lisbeth and I have got so close that whoever is behind all of this is reacting in a deranged manner, in panic.†   (source)
  • One of them took apart a radio and dropped the pieces into a stream, ate a butterfly, and cut the throat of a cat, because she was deranged.†   (source)
  • He had been approached in panic by someone not given to panic, and asked 'hypothetical' questions pertaining to a possibly deranged deep-cover agent in a potentially explosive situation.†   (source)
  • Salander was obviously deranged, so it was no surprise that she had killed these people, but that Zalachenko might have any connection to the affair had not dawned on him.†   (source)
  • Hopping on one foot in her pink pajamas, she was sure she looked like some sort of deranged Energizer Bunny.†   (source)
  • The President must resign, charged the Aurora, "before it is too late to retrieve our deranged affairs."†   (source)
  • Either Guitar's disappointment with the gold that was not there was so deep it had deranged him, or his "work" had done it.†   (source)
  • The sound of pursuit still rang out from behind, but it had lessened, as if even their deranged pursuers understood it was crazy to head into a forest fire.†   (source)
  • Our first morning in Moscow, at breakfast—for him, a euphemism for coffee—he told me, "I'm still biologically deranged."†   (source)
  • I can't see her as a deranged killer.†   (source)
  • Jason lifted his knapsack from the floor and put it on the bed, pulling out the nylon cords as the deranged killer crawled oh top of the soiled spread.†   (source)
  • He's wearing an old corduroy blazer with patches sewn onto the elbows like a deranged—and adorable—English teacher.†   (source)
  • Hisaroused green eyes and massive immovable dignity gave him the appearance of a deranged and overweight inquisitor.†   (source)
  • She was locked up because she was deranged—any claims to the contrary are the sick fantasies of bitter journalists.†   (source)
  • I tried to rise, feeling his knees dig into my spine, listening to the amazing noise that centered around my head, angry at the lights, groaning now, trying to rise, the lights, the shouts, the unyielding pressures, the derangement, the unraveling.†   (source)
  • Beyond this sacrosanct, isolated room the Hong Kong firefighters were hosing down the last of the smouldering embers as the Hong Kong police were calming the panicked residents from the nearby estates on Victoria Peak — many of whom were convinced that Armageddon had arrived in the form of a mainland onslaught — telling everyone that the terrible events were the work of a deranged criminal killed by government emergency units.†   (source)
  • In order to keep from a total meltdown, I think about what Lindsay would say if she were stuck with me in the middle of the night in the middle of woods that extend who knows how many miles in the middle of a monsoon, if she saw me tearing at the ground like a deranged mole, completely covered in mud.†   (source)
  • As it jumped from bed to bed, killing patients left and right, doctors began to notice signs of mental derangement, psychosis, depersonalization, zombie-like behavior.†   (source)
  • Björck had hired Teleborian to lock Salander up in a psychiatric hospital for children under the pretense that she was mentally deranged.†   (source)
  • -V. showed no signs of mental derangement, and his fever cooled, and he seemed to be stabilizing, but then suddenly, without warning, he had an acute fall in blood pressure—he was crashing—and he died.†   (source)
  • Her disbelief was total, deranged.†   (source)
  • He was calmer but, she knew, still deranged; curious, she thought, how in this present pacified form of his derangement he seemed no longer so frightening and menacing, despite the unequivocal menace of the cyanide capsule six inches from her eyes.†   (source)
  • But I dismissed the thought as unworthy, especially in the light of my newly acquired knowledge, through Sophie, of that drug-induced derangement which had doubtless caused him to say hatefully irresponsible things—words it was now clear he no longer remembered.†   (source)
  • He was calmer but, she knew, still deranged; curious, she thought, how in this present pacified form of his derangement he seemed no longer so frightening and menacing, despite the unequivocal menace of the cyanide capsule six inches from her eyes.†   (source)
  • So works the mind of the mentally deranged criminal.†   (source)
  • I regret to derange you-especially after all you have been through.†   (source)
  • I will not derange you further.†   (source)
  • Mesdames and monsieur, I regret-I regret infinitely to have deranged you from your slumbers for so little.†   (source)
  • In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?†   (source)
  • Phillotson, alarmed, went towards it, wondering if she had suddenly become deranged.†   (source)
  • "Such a delay would not have deranged my plans in the least," said Mr. Fogg.†   (source)
  • It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged.†   (source)
  • "I think he is a little deranged," said I, sadly.†   (source)
  • 'Do not let me derange you; pray be tranquil.†   (source)
  • There were persons whose every-day pursuits were greatly deranged by the Civil War.†   (source)
  • I fancy the first stage of your derangement coincides with your leaving the university.†   (source)
  • This polite behavior made an extremely favorable impression on the deranged lady.†   (source)
  • At this point it was that a nervous and almost deranged look—never so definite or powerful at any time before in his life—the border-line look between reason and unreason, no less—so powerful that the quality of it was even noticeable to Sondra—came into his eyes.†   (source)
  • "This letter is deranged," he said.†   (source)
  • "It's evident—parbleu!" he continued; "for, make up your mind as much as you like, even a simple headache or a fit of indigestion (un derangement d'estomac) is enough to ...Take me, for instance—I have made my proofs.†   (source)
  • IN THE interim the mental state of Clyde since that hour when, the water closing over Roberta, he had made his way to the shore, and then, after changing his clothes, had subsequently arrived at Sharon and the lakeside lodge of the Cranstons, was almost one of complete mental derangement, mainly caused by fear and confusion in his own mind as to whether he did or did not bring about her untimely end.†   (source)
  • At first she retorted and said disagreeable things to him, but once or twice he fell into such a rage at the beginning of dinner that she realized it was due to some physical derangement brought on by taking food, and so she restrained herself and did not answer, but only hurried to get the dinner over.†   (source)
  • It deranged his best plan of domestic happiness, his best hope of keeping Sir Walter single by the watchfulness which a son-in-law's rights would have given.†   (source)
  • By cutting off these supplies we shall derange their plans, and gain time on them; for the articles cannot be sent across the ocean again this autumn.†   (source)
  • It's simply physical derangement.†   (source)
  • Along that line of thought such a deduction is indubitable, as indubitable as the deduction Voltaire made in jest (without knowing what he was jesting at) when he saw that the Massacre of St. Bartholomew was due to Charles IX's stomach being deranged.†   (source)
  • These answers and his manner were strange enough to cause my guardian to inquire of Mr. Woodcourt, as we all walked across Lincoln's Inn together, whether Mr. Krook were really, as his lodger represented him, deranged.†   (source)
  • Wrench came, but did not apprehend anything serious, spoke of a "slight derangement," and did not speak of coming again on the morrow.†   (source)
  • Well, by means of these lines, which are in accordance with the double motion of the earth, and the ellipse it describes round the sun, I am enabled to ascertain the precise hour with more minuteness than if I possessed a watch; for that might be broken or deranged in its movements, while the sun and earth never vary in their appointed paths.†   (source)
  • I found it not difficult, in the excitement of Mr. Chillip's own brain, under his potations of negus, to divert his attention from this topic to his own affairs, on which, for the next half-hour, he was quite loquacious; giving me to understand, among other pieces of information, that he was then at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house to lay his professional evidence before a Commission of Lunacy, touching the state of mind of a patient who had become deranged from excessive drinking.†   (source)
  • That he had been from the time of Greenhill Fair until the fatal Christmas Eve in excited and unusual moods was known to those who had been intimate with him; but nobody imagined that there had shown in him unequivocal symptoms of the mental derangement which Bathsheba and Oak, alone of all others and at different times, had momentarily suspected.†   (source)
  • Her health seemed for the moment completely deranged—appetite quite gone—and though there were no absolutely alarming symptoms, nothing touching the pulmonary complaint, which was the standing apprehension of the family, Mr. Perry was uneasy about her.†   (source)
  • In place of Miss Knag being stationed in her accustomed seat, preserving all the dignity and greatness of Madame Mantalini's representative, that worthy soul was reposing on a large box, bathed in tears, while three or four of the young ladies in close attendance upon her, together with the presence of hartshorn, vinegar, and other restoratives, would have borne ample testimony, even without the derangement of the head-dress and front row of curls, to her having fainted desperately.†   (source)
  • As Judith uttered this, her beautiful face had a resentful frown on it; while a bitter smile lingered around a mouth that no derangement of the muscles could render anything but handsome.†   (source)
  • Without getting into those rumors that upset civilians in the seaports and deranged the public mind even far inland, it must be said that professional seamen were especially alarmed.†   (source)
  • As in former years, at the beginning of the spring he had gone to a foreign watering-place for the sake of his health, deranged by the winter's work that every year grew heavier.†   (source)
  • It had a turn for quacking and squeaking,—that chair had,—either from having taken cold in early life, or from some asthmatic affection, or perhaps from nervous derangement; but, as she gently swung backward and forward, the chair kept up a kind of subdued "creechy crawchy," that would have been intolerable in any other chair.†   (source)
  • And this is what happened: every one was amazed and horrified, every one refused to believe it and thought that he was deranged, though all listened with intense curiosity.†   (source)
  • Next week I hope my duties will afford me a little liberty, and I will take advantage of it to come and put things in order here, as they must necessarily be much deranged.†   (source)
  • The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture of offended pride, and deranged foppery and bodily terror.†   (source)
  • Albert had himself presided at the arrangement, or, rather, the symmetrical derangement, which, after coffee, the guests at a breakfast of modern days love to contemplate through the vapor that escapes from their mouths, and ascends in long and fanciful wreaths to the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Poor Mrs. Cranch was bulky, and, breathing asthmatically, had the additional motive for making her remarks unexceptionable and giving them a general bearing, that even her whispers were loud and liable to sudden bursts like those of a deranged barrel-organ.†   (source)
  • At that distant day, when so few men were present to derange the harmony of the wilderness, all the smaller lakes with which the interior of New York so abounds were places of resort for the migratory aquatic birds, and this sheet like the others had once been much frequented by all the varieties of the duck, by the goose, the gull, and the loon.†   (source)
  • The old kitchen floor never seems stained or spotted; the tables, the chairs, and the various cooking utensils, never seem deranged or disordered; though three and sometimes four meals a day are got there, though the family washing and ironing is there performed, and though pounds of butter and cheese are in some silent and mysterious manner there brought into existence.†   (source)
  • The deranged needles would mark contradictory directions as we approached the southern magnetic pole, which doesn't coincide with the South Pole proper.†   (source)
  • Deranged?†   (source)
  • Unhappiness, almost mental derangement, was visible on his mobile, rather handsome face, while without even noticing Anna's coming in, he went on hurriedly and hotly expressing his views.†   (source)
  • 'In the meanwhile, it is not too much to propose (our prisoner having deranged my housekeeping), that my expenses of lodging and nourishment at an hotel shall be paid by you.†   (source)
  • In the next place, it's high treason, by law, for the eldest son of his majesty ever to covet the crown, or to have a child, except in lawful wedlock, as either would derange the succession.†   (source)
  • Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.†   (source)
  • And so, with a nervous and psychically deranged woman, a sort of convulsion of the whole organism always took place, and was bound to take place, at the moment of bowing down to the sacrament, aroused by the expectation of the miracle of healing and the implicit belief that it would come to pass; and it did come to pass, though only for a moment.†   (source)
  • deranged is it?†   (source)
  • "He talks very coherently," thought Ivan, "though he does mumble; what's the derangement of his faculties that Herzenstube talked of?"†   (source)
  • In that sense we are certainly all not infrequently like madmen, but with the slight difference that the deranged are somewhat madder, for we must draw a line.†   (source)
  • "A familiar phenomenon," interposed Zossimov, "actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions—it's like a dream."†   (source)
  • Pulcheria Alexandrovna's illness was a strange nervous one and was accompanied by a partial derangement of her intellect.†   (source)
  • But they immediately drew the deduction that the crime could only have been committed through temporary mental derangement, through homicidal mania, without object or the pursuit of gain.†   (source)
  • I let out the breath I had been holding in expectation of a deranged attack.†   (source)
  • /To antagonize/ seems to have been given currency by John Quincy Adams, /to immigrate/ by John Marshall, /to eventuate/ by Gouverneur Morris, and /to derange/ by George Washington.†   (source)
  • "The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.†   (source)
  • I rose up free from hunger, and found beside me some goatherds, who no doubt were the persons who had relieved me in my need, for they told me how they had found me, and how I had been uttering ravings that showed plainly I had lost my reason; and since then I am conscious that I am not always in full possession of it, but at times so deranged and crazed that I do a thousand mad things, tearing my clothes, crying aloud in these solitudes, cursing my fate, and idly calling on the dear name of her who is my enemy, and only seeking to end my life in lamentation; and when I recover my senses I find myself so exhausted and weary that I can scarcely move.†   (source)
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