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Definition of Madcaps
1. madcap [n] - See also: madcap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Madcaps
Literary usage of Madcaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"Man cannot live upon berries and cresses; Life's is a banquet luxuriant in messes;
Deep let us drink while existence progresses, Sky-scalers — madcaps ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1838)
"Deep let us drink then, unfearing excesses, SKY-SCALERS—madcaps—WITH WINE-WETTED
DRESSES ! If you have merely read this, reader, concluded modulate your ..."
3. Poets and Poetry of Indiana: A Representative Collection of the Poetry of by Benjamin Strattan Parker (1900)
"There romping madcaps free from harm, Protected by some unseen charm, ... Play on,
ye madcaps, free from care ! Let older hearts the burden bear; ..."
4. A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth (1910)
"CHAPTER XXV ESCAPE OF TWO madcaps " \ \ TELL, it is a mercy, only what's to happen
next?" VV said Mile Marthe in the morning. "I don't know," said Aline ..."
5. A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth (1910)
"CHAPTER XXV ESCAPE OF TWO madcaps "\\TELL, it is a mercy, only what's to happen
next?" VV said Mlle Marthe in the morning. "I don't know," said Aline ..."
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