Is that not a diseased soul which has no vigour for righteous and self-sacrificing work; whose vision is so dim it sees no beauty in holiness?
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
To a Victorian the poems in Serres Chaudes must of necessity seem diseased; just as the greater part of Tennyson's poetry must of necessity seem ordinary to us.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
There was a woman of hysterical temperament with a diseased imagination.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton