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"Crazy in the fullest sense of the word. She refuses the count's millions from a silly fear of telling people that she belongs to the Chalusse family. She threatened her brother, but she would never have carried her threats into execution. And she prefers her present position to such a fortune. What lunacy!" But, although he was disappointed and angry, he did not by any means despair.
The terms 'insanity, 'lunacy, 'unsoundness of mind, 'mental derangement, 'madness, and 'mental alienation or aberration, are indifferently applied to those states of disordered mind in which the person loses the power of regulating his actions and conduct according to the ordinary rules of society.
Many that presume to laugh at projectors, would consider a flight through the air in a winged chariot, and the movement of a mighty engine by the steam of water as equally the dreams of mechanick lunacy; and would hear, with equal negligence, of the union of the Thames and Severn by a canal, and the scheme of Albuquerque, the viceroy of the Indies, who in the rage of hostility had contrived to make Egypt a barren desert, by turning the Nile into the Red Sea.
'I would add a touch of earthquake, Miss Ilchester, just to make sure that all the party know one another's edges before starting. This was too far a shot of nonsense for Janet, whose native disposition was to refer to lunacy or stupidity, or trickery, whatsoever was novel to her understanding.
Nothing absolutely nothing but homicidal mania could possibly account for such a performance, and the man was obviously as sane as you or I. I felt certain that there was something wrong somewhere, but as for suspecting him of being the principal in the crime, the idea was stark lunacy!" "By George, it was a tough proposition!" said Ned. "By the way, had you heard of George Rattar at that time?"
It was a scene that possessed the beholder with singular fascination, and in its effect of universal lunacy, it might well have seemed the last phase of a world presently to be destroyed.
11: About various allusions and satirical hints in this scene later on. 12: Florio, 21; Montaigne, I. ii. 13: Essay III. i. 14: Isaiah, ch. iii. v. 16. 15: The word 'ecstasy, which is often used in the new quarto, is wanting in the first edition where only madness, lunacy, frenzy the highest degrees of madness are spoken of. 17: Essay I. 40. 19: Essay II. 27, p. 142. 20: Essay III. 4, p. 384.
What perfect lunacy comes from mistaking the top of a Fifth Avenue stage for a howdah!" How thankful he was that the old brick corner mansion in Madison Avenue, with age alone to recommend its architecture of the seventies let it stand for what it was had not been replaced by one of stone freshly polished each year!
A book called Music and Morals had appeared about that time, and on it they we had risen to regions of kite-high lunacy about Colour Symphonies, orgies of formless colour thrown on a magic-lantern screen vieux jeu enough at this time of day. "'Scherzos in Silver and Grey' 'Word Pastels' Lyrics in Stone!" he chuckled.
I engaged two wild young Arabs of eighteen and twenty years of age, named Bacheet and Wat Gamma: the latter being interpreted signifies "Son of the Moon." This in no way suggests lunacy, but the young Arab had happened to enter this world on the day of the new moon, which was considered to be a particularly fortunate and brilliant omen at his birth.
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