Word: madding
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...indeed make war?like a mad bulldog-walrus-tiger all rolled into one! Strangely enough, his pessimistic worldly philosophy caused him to deny explicitly on one occasion that God inspired the almost religious Crusade which he made out of the War. He gave the credit to the Spirit of France: "Ce n'est pas Dieu, c'est la France qui le veut...
...there the Court of St. James's, still a synonym for the Court of Britain. There Charles I slept out the night before his execution; there the ill-starred Marie de Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France, found a refuge; there George III was attacked by a mad woman. In 1736 a wing was added for Frederick, Prince of Wales, later driven from court. This, having later become the residence of the Duke and Duchess of York, is known as York House...
...father and mother and a' should gae mad...
...beautifully located 15 miles from the open sea, at the head of Otago harbor, famed stamping ground of the aboriginal Maoris, who manufactured there a native pigment with which they smeared their bodies, as did the early Britons. In 1861 Dunedin was the scene of one of the mad scrambles for gold which sent so many adventurers flocking to New Zealand. Now it has grown decorous, sprouted an embryo culture. As the Exposition got under way local citizens announced with pride that they had financed the whole venture except for a grant of ?25,000 from the Dominion Government...
...bleat 2,000 "woollies" as they start forward harried by the sheep-dog at their flanks. A sheepherder, strong in suffering hardship, powerful in emotion, childish in mind, is alone for a whole summer, far in the California mountains with his sheep. He grows wilderness-mad. His only civilized emotion is a strange attachment to his herd. All summer long he makes only three acquaintances?a cougar, a prospector and the prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last for his mate. The power of the book, the excuse...