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- noun Plural form of
madhouse .
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And sinking back into delirium, I would take the idea with me and be immured in madhouses, and be beaten by keepers, and surrounded by screeching lunatics.
Chapter 4 2010
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And sinking back into delirium, I would take the idea with me and be immured in madhouses, and be beaten by keepers, and surrounded by screeching lunatics.
Chapter IV 1913
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Their leaders were executed for sedition or confined in madhouses.
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A large proportion of the inmates of our madhouses are the victims of ardent spirit.
Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society
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Log in to Reply madhouses visites (UID#3724) on September 17th, 2009 at 4: 06 pm
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They told him stories of the heyday of cod, when docks were "madhouses" and fishermen formed the "million-pounds-a-month club."
Lee Crockett: Overfishing 101: A Big Fish Story We Should Take Seriously Lee Crockett 2011
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Log in to Reply madhouses visites (UID#3724) on September 23rd, 2009 at 2: 39 pm
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They told him stories of the heyday of cod, when docks were "madhouses" and fishermen formed the "million-pounds-a-month club."
Lee Crockett: Overfishing 101: A Big Fish Story We Should Take Seriously Lee Crockett 2011
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