His people,
half-mad with excitement and debauch, needed only a cry from him to have closed like magic round these insolent intruders.
Sometimes I think Wolf Larsen mad, or
half-mad at least, what of his strange moods and vagaries.
I remember once a young doctor expounding the theory that most catastrophes in family circles, surprising episodes in public affairs and disasters in private life, had their origin in the fact that the world was full of
half-mad people.
Byron struggled to live on 130 pounds a year, in Newstead Abbey, near Nottingham, there lived a queer,
half-mad, old grand-uncle, who had earned for himself the name of "the wicked lord." He knew well enough that when he died the little boy in Aberdeen, with the pretty face and lame foot, would become Lord Byron.
Several times she was quite beside herself and hysterical; and then Jurgis would go
half-mad with fright.
Oh, it drives me
half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob heavily into it.
The Queen, however, disliked Gladstone, and told her private secretary Henry Ponsonby "she will sooner abdicate than send for or have any communication with that
half-mad firebrand who would soon ruin everything and be a dictator.
It's a long trek from Fitzgerald's Sixmilebridge home to the south-east, though when asked about his connection with the Wexford people he said: "We're kind of a good fit - they're
half-mad, I'm
half-mad.
It went through the legs and after that, as everyone could see, I went
half-mad there!"
"The Favourite" -- Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz star as cousins vying for the favor of the
half-mad Queen Anne (Oscar winner Olivia Colman) in Yorgos Lanthimos' deliciously diabolical comedy of ill manners.
One can only gasp imagining these temperatures; one must probably be half-boiled and probably
half-mad.
He told that once a
half-mad person visited his shop who wanted to write poetry based on love on headstone but has had nothing to pay for it so his desire was not fulfilled.