Whack jobs

Usage examples of lunatics.

I have seen her take a whip to fractious lunatics, but now she clutches me to her apron and weeps like a girl, and tells me gravely what my future is to be, in the house of my uncle.

The men on her, most of them, blessed babbling lunatics, chattering to freeze your blood about the horrors they had found on the dark and hideous planet of that evil star.

Put thus, what is there that any man with the least knowledge of the ways of lunatics would call remarkable?

Beyond the beat come other, fainter cries: the shrieks of lunatics, the shouts and scolds of nurses.

I suppose I shall live out all my days a nurse, contentedly teasing lunatics until I die.

But I have observed lunatics, too, and know how to struggle while only seeming to stand limp.

I understand it, however, as a signal to the house, for I have been raised to the sound of similar bells, that told the lunatics to rise, to dress, to say their prayers, to take their dinners.

I draw what comfort I can from my idea that somewhere in the house walk lunatics, and with them watchful nurses.

I did not know it yet, for on Wednesdays Dr Christie and Dr Graves went off in their coach to drum up new lady lunatics, and the house was quiet.

From time to time obscure lunatics have been jailed for making speeches in favour of Hitler, and large numbers of German refugees have been interned, a thing which has almost certainly done us great harm in Europe.

As a result by far the greater number of pamphlets are either written by lonely lunatics who publish at their own expense, or belong to the sub-world of the crank religions, or are issued by political parties.