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  • It's bedlam down there.†   (source)
  • In the abrupt bedlam, I could hear more than one person shouting my name.†   (source)
  • Beyond the confines of my room, there was absolute bedlam; stuff was hurled all over the place in room after room.†   (source)
  • Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong Vietnam was full of strange stories, some improbable, some well beyond that, but the stories that will last forever are those that swirl back and forth across the border between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane.†   (source)
  • He saw Annie Wilkes in a long aproned dress, her hair covered with a mobcap, an Annie who looked like a nurse in London's Bedlam Hospital.†   (source)
  • He would be Death, or Death 's errand-runner, a hollow-eyed technician from the plague era, from the era of inquisitions, endless wars, of bedlams and leprosariums.†   (source)
  • Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.†   (source)
  • Of course, bedlam is always the result, with attendant bad feeling.†   (source)
  • A car was a rarity, and the sight of one in the distance was sometimes enough to cause bedlam during a class.†   (source)
  • In the middle of all the bedlam, Jenny actually turned and called over her shoulder, "Be right back, boys!"†   (source)
  • A minute or so later there was the crash on the bridge and the bedlam that followed upset all our plans for the day.†   (source)
  • Actually, no. Actually, I've never known such bedlam.†   (source)
  • Within minutes there were racecourses and grandstands, side shows and refreshment booths, gaming fields, Ferris wheels, banners, bunting, and bedlam, almost without pause.†   (source)
  • Cain says nothing of the bedlam in my mind.†   (source)
  • As might be expected, throwing open the doors of any school to every freshman in Chicago threatened to create bedlam.†   (source)
  • The room was boiling irrepressibly into bedlam.†   (source)
  • The scene outside North Carolina University Hospital was already media bedlam.†   (source)
  • The west wing boarding terminal at National Transport was always bedlam.†   (source)
  • Bedlam followed Rolf's death, a crush of bodies as refugees rushed forward to see what had happened.†   (source)
  • "My God," Brother Eugene cried as he entered the classroom and beheld the bedlam.†   (source)
  • JUNE 30—What was perhaps the most drama-packed and best-attended political meeting ever held in Nevada broke up in a scene of bedlam last night at War Memorial hall after the audience had listened to Sen.†   (source)
  • Bedlam was loose in that tent as Otto moved toward a mid-ring reckoning with Mark.†   (source)
  • This seems a fine match for Tom, as he's a clinical assistant at Bethlem Royal Hospital—Bedlam—and, despite his many faults, a gifted healer.†   (source)
  • With officials looking everywhere for the killers, on streets filled with bonfires and spontaneous parades and hordes of drunken revelers, blending in to the bedlam should be as simple as staying calm.†   (source)
  • But on Wednesday, when they arrived at the turnoff to KAEC, it was bedlam.†   (source)
  • Miranda followed a few seconds later, and together they made their way to the bedlam of the car park, where a line of taxis smoked in the scalding midafternoon sun.†   (source)
  • Ace, slight and wiry, looked up and said, "Welcome to Bedlam!"†   (source)
  • And from time to time paid his visits to Bedlam.†   (source)
  • To find not only that this bedlam of color was true but that the pictures were pale and inaccurate translations, was to me startling.†   (source)
  • From that bedlam he had fled to the peace and quiet of the ancient capital to write the book he had in mind.†   (source)
  • So it was Miss Myra's soldier that jerked Delilah's hand from the bridle and turned her around, and cursed the Bedlam-like horse which began to beat the hall floor behind.†   (source)
  • We rushed out to the grinder, where it was absolute bedlam.†   (source)
  • In the newsroom one level down, it would be bedlam.†   (source)
  • All out bedlam had broken across the lot.†   (source)
  • All at once the ward erupted into bedlam.†   (source)
  • They have an army, thousands strong," I say, words tumbling out of me as from a patient at Bedlam.†   (source)
  • Tom, I know I shall sound like one of your patients at Bedlam, but please, hear me out.†   (source)
  • A word in his ear, and 'e could have you thrown in Bedlam."†   (source)
  • Such a mess they made, such bedlam, the devil couldn't sort it out!†   (source)
  • I took a taxi from Regent's Park, and in the long crawl through central London I thought of those sad inmates of Bedlam who were once a source of general entertainment, and I reflected in a self-pitying way on how I was soon to join their ranks.†   (source)
  • He suddenly remembered a note on mental illness he had taken for the first Misery book, where much of the action had been set in London's Bedlam Hospital (Misery had been railroaded there by the madly jealous villainess).†   (source)
  • Emily ate leaning against the counter like me—avoiding the bedlam at the table—and watched them with affectionate eyes.†   (source)
  • Clutching the ring of keys, he dashed across the lawns toward the Manse, which was in a state of bedlam as panicked families and students streamed out the doors and hurried toward the Sanctuary.†   (source)
  • Russ knows he ought to settle down and let the mike pick up the sound of the swelling bedlam around him.†   (source)
  • It was total bedlam now.†   (source)
  • There was bedlam in the crowd as the buzzer sounded and the official scorekeeper indicated that the great Jimmy Mance had fouled out of the game.†   (source)
  • …wild horses in the upland forests in the pine and madrono and in the arroyos where they'd gone to hide and they drove them pounding over the high mesas and penned them in the stone ravine fitted ten years earlier with fence and gate and there the horses milled and squealed and clambered at the rock slopes and turned upon one another biting and kicking while John Grady walked among them in the sweat and dust and bedlam with his rope as if they were no more than some evil dream of horse.†   (source)
  • He couldn't find her again in the Allied officers' night club that evening or in the sweltering, burnished, hedonistic bedlam of the black-market restaurant with its vast bobbing wooden trays of elegant food and its chirping flock of bright and lovely girls.†   (source)
  • It was police bedlam.†   (source)
  • Sometime in these bedlam hours I must have crossed the river again because I had got back on U.S. 10 and was moving north on the east side of the Mississippi.†   (source)
  • The bedlam in the street rose higher" more men climbed through trapdoors to the roof.†   (source)
  • The child might have to be sent to the hospital of Bethlehem, which later ages were to call Bedlam.†   (source)
  • Leave it to that Dago to keep order and it's like bedlam in a cathouse, singing and everything.†   (source)
  • What a bedlam!†   (source)
  • His arrival was always amid a bedlam of hounds barking and small black children shouting as they raced to meet him, quarreling for the privilege of holding his horse and squirming and grinning under his good-natured insults.†   (source)
  • Then bedlam broke loose.†   (source)
  • Soon the bedlam was deafening.†   (source)
  • A woman's scream rose above the bedlam and suddenly a lovely, dark-haired girl was in Walter Mitty's arms.†   (source)
  • One more night of this kid will send me to a bed in Bedlam.†   (source)
  • The street was as busy as a beehive and as noisy as a bedlam.†   (source)
  • Cry after cry, and answering cries, were turning the silence into a bedlam.†   (source)
  • Dirt and disorder, a perfect Bedlam…. hm…. yes….†   (source)
  • Why, not to put too fine a point upon it, this is Bedlam, sir!" says Mr. Snagsby.†   (source)
  • 'Gentlemen, it's getting something like Bedlam,' he remarked aloud.†   (source)
  • And if I invite all Newgate or all Bedlam here, by —— they shall be welcome.†   (source)
  • Really, this table is getting to be more and more like Bedlam every day, with everybody talking at once.†   (source)
  • He stared at the King again—and thought, "IS it a dream …. or IS he the veritable Sovereign of England, and not the friendless poor Tom o' Bedlam I took him for—who shall solve me this riddle?"†   (source)
  • They quarrelled and bickered more than ever among themselves, till at times the camp was a howling bedlam.†   (source)
  • …and eddied; the empty upholstered seats, littered with all the evidences of sudden flight, such as packages, hand satchels, umbrellas, and wraps; the stout gentleman who had been reading my essay, encased in cork and canvas, the magazine still in his hand, and asking me with monotonous insistence if I thought there was any danger; the red-faced man, stumping gallantly around on his artificial legs and buckling life-preservers on all corners; and finally, the screaming bedlam of women.†   (source)
  • I felt I could not speak in that Bedlam, or I should have been tempted to cry out, when she reproached me, that she herself was my best justification.†   (source)
  • The man stared down, stupefied, upon the lad, then shook his head and muttered— "Gone stark mad as any Tom o' Bedlam!†   (source)
  • Once again he lived in the lair with Kiche, crept trembling to the knees of Grey Beaver to tender his allegiance, ran for his life before Lip-lip and all the howling bedlam of the puppy-pack.†   (source)
  • She talked about cattle—he showed no concern; then about sheep—the same result: so her guess that he had been a shepherd boy was an error; she talked about mills; and about weavers, tinkers, smiths, trades and tradesmen of all sorts; and about Bedlam, and jails, and charitable retreats: but no matter, she was baffled at all points.†   (source)
  • 'cuteness, Mr. Tulliver," she observed as she sat down, "but I'm sure the child's half an idiot i' some things; for if I send her upstairs to fetch anything, she forgets what she's gone for, an' perhaps 'ull sit down on the floor i' the sunshine an' plait her hair an' sing to herself like a Bedlam creatur', all the while I'm waiting for her downstairs.†   (source)
  • She laid her hand upon his arm, and he took her over the way; the crowd, rather injured by the near prospect of losing her, pressing before and behind and on either side, and recommending an adjournment to Bedlam.†   (source)
  • I'll retire to Bedlam."†   (source)
  • Mad as Bedlam, boy!' said Mr. Dick, taking snuff from a round box on the table, and laughing heartily.†   (source)
  • Dorothea knew many passages of Pascal's Pensees and of Jeremy Taylor by heart; and to her the destinies of mankind, seen by the light of Christianity, made the solicitudes of feminine fashion appear an occupation for Bedlam.†   (source)
  • For, people then paid to see the play at the Old Bailey, just as they paid to see the play in Bedlam—only the former entertainment was much the dearer.†   (source)
  • Alas, I feel how much even of incipient madness might have been discovered in the gorgeous and fantastic draperies, in the solemn carvings of Egypt, in the wild cornices and furniture, in the Bedlam patterns of the carpets of tufted gold!†   (source)
  • And once I've done that they can bringall Beale street and all bedlam in here and two of them can sleepin mybed and another one can have my place at the table too.†   (source)
  • …me the rosary Rosales y OReilly in the Calle las Siete Revueltas and Pisimbo and Mrs Opisso in Governor street O what a name Id go and drown myself in the first river if I had a name like her O my and all the bits of streets Paradise ramp and Bedlam ramp and Rodgers ramp and Crutchetts ramp and the devils gap steps well small blame to me if I am a harumscarum I know I am a bit I declare to God I dont feel a day older than then I wonder could I get my tongue round any of the Spanish…†   (source)
  • The poor lady started from her sleep with as much amazement as terror, and beheld at her bedside a figure which might very well be supposed to have escaped out of Bedlam.†   (source)
  • —he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy: my cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam.†   (source)
  • My poor governess was utterly disconsolate, and she that was my comforter before, wanted comfort now herself; and sometimes mourning, sometimes raging, was as much out of herself, as to all outward appearance, as any mad woman in Bedlam.†   (source)
  • If some man in Bedlam should entertaine you with sober discourse; and you desire in taking leave, to know what he were, that you might another time requite his civility; and he should tell you, he were God the Father; I think you need expect no extravagant action for argument of his Madnesse.†   (source)
  • But soon remembering this happy change, the joy of which whirled his blood about faster than the vessels could convey it, he became so feverish, as made him more fit for bedlam than any other place.†   (source)
  • Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam To lead him where he would: his roguish madness Allows itself to anything.†   (source)
  • The third day I was so ravenous and furious, that I could have eaten a little child if it had come in my way; during which time, I was as mad as any creature in Bedlam.†   (source)
  • To be concise, therefore, imagine me married; imagine me with my husband, at the feet of my aunt; and then imagine the maddest woman in Bedlam, in a raving fit, and your imagination will suggest to you no more than what really happened.†   (source)
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