Of all the dreadful trials which human nature has the capacity to bear unshattered, the worst-as, indeed, I have already said-is the fang of some monomaniacal idea which cannot be wrenched out.
"The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford"
Mark Rutherford
He could follow on the face of the former duellist, who had become the most ardent of Catholics and the most monomaniacal of old bachelors, twenty diverse expressions.
"Cosmopolis, Complete"
Paul Bourget Last Updated: March 3, 2009
And he was no madman, no victim of a monomaniacal obsession.
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Robert Bloch