horn-mad

Proud and vainglorious persons are certainly mad; and so are [764] lascivious; I can feel their pulses beat hither; horn-mad some of them, to let others lie with their wives, and wink at it.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found the young man, he would have been horn-mad.

The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.

Much Ado About Nothing 2004

Though what I am I cannot avoid, yet to be what I would not, shall not make me tame: if I have horns to make me mad, let the proverb go with me; I’ll be horn-mad.

Act III. Scene V. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.

Act I. Scene I. Much Ado about Nothing 1914

I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found the young man, he would have been horn-mad.

Act I. Scene IV. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

In the eyes of the excellent Rogers I am horn-mad.

Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896

"Well, I tell ye fairly, I'm horn-mad," cries Stewart.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Was it fair to me? was it fair to Miss Grant that counselled you to go, and would be driven fair horn-mad if she could hear of it?

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

In the same letter in which Walpole had referred to _Miss Lucy in Town_, he had spoken of the success of a new player at Goodman's Fields, after whom all the town, in Gray's phrase, was "horn-mad;" but in whose acting Mr. Walpole, with a critical distrust of novelty, saw nothing particularly wonderful.

Fielding Austin Dobson 1880