from the superintendent of the lunatic asylum..." All night long such announcements were continually being received by the count.

"Well, then," I said, "either I am a lunatic, or something just as awful has happened.

"No wonder that fellow thought me an escaped lunatic. He was wrong: I am only an escaped patient."

For the glance was full of cunning, the low cunning of the lunatic criminal.

It was in old days, with our learned men, an interesting and oft-investigated question, "What is the origin of light?" and the solution of it has been repeatedly attempted, with no other result than to crowd our lunatic asylums with the would-be solvers.

People in general thought him a lunatic, and blamed his Reform Club friends for having accepted a wager which betrayed the mental aberration of its proposer.

Saloon-mates I drank with, who were good fellows and harmless, sober, did most violent and lunatic things when they were drunk.

Rochester at the house up yonder, Wood; but I daresay you have many a time inclined your ear to gossip about the mysterious lunatic kept there under watch and ward.

And then there was an audible hiss, but whether it came from the apparent lunatic's own lips, or was the real hiss of a serpent, might admit of a discussion.

The fellow thought he was a lunatic at large and made an unsuccessful attempt to shut him into the taproom.

He is only nine-and twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care.

You're a bonny fighter, you know, and you touch my imagination, though my cooler reason tells me that you are a lunatic like the rest.