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LUNATIC

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Traducere în limba română

lunatic, adjectiv, substantiv

nebun, alienat; lunatic.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Thus departed for this time my chance of much learning from this so clever lunatic; so I shall go, if I may, and cheer myself with a few happy words with that sweet soul Madam Mina.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

"You shall tell me this part of the story another time," I said; "but now I have a particular reason for wishing to hear all about the fire. Was it suspected that this lunatic, Mrs. Rochester, had any hand in it?"

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

If that man had been an ordinary lunatic I would have taken my chance of trusting him; but he seems so mixed up with the Count in an indexy kind of way that I am afraid of doing anything wrong by helping his fads.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

You say you never heard of a Mrs. Rochester at the house up yonder, Wood; but I daresay you have many a time inclined your ear to gossip about the mysterious lunatic kept there under watch and ward.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I had a growing conviction that this sudden change of his entire intellectual method was but yet another form or phase of his madness, and so determined to let him go on a little longer, knowing from experience that he would, like all lunatics, give himself away in the end.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

There was an unusual understanding of himself, which was unlike anything I had ever met with in a lunatic; and he took it for granted that his reasons would prevail with others entirely sane.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Had I even the secret of one such mind—did I hold the key to the fancy of even one lunatic—I might advance my own branch of science to a pitch compared with which Burdon-Sanderson's physiology or Ferrier's brain-knowledge would be as nothing.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Lord Godalming and I were silent, but Dr. Van Helsing added:—Friend John, you know more of lunatics than I do, and I'm glad of it, for I fear that if it had been to me to decide I would before that last hysterical outburst have given him free.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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