He saw the wounded Swiss to whom he felt immense gratitude and whom he pitied so heartily that, at first, during their conversation, he took him for a madman; he saw little Nasibu with skull as round as a ball, and the row of sleeping "pagahs," and the barrels of the Remingtons stacked against the rock and glistening in the fire.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
I grabbed the telephone and demanded the Otooska House until the central operator must have thought there was a madman at the other end.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
Has that poor man, I may say that madman, though he vehemently protested against the suspicion, really spoken words to me that I could not understand, accompanied by looks that I shudder to think of, for they seem to me to have been more expressive than his words.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse