Usa "monomania" in una frase

1. In his monomania he could hear only their literal meaning

2. Stan and Ambrosius were silent, for Fishmael's face told them that he was not after an answer, but merely a mute audience for his monomania

3. Fishmael cursed the plants, but even in his monomania he accepted that there was little to be done – the weed stretched on as far as the horizon in front and to the sides, and there was no question of turning back

4. In this respect he did not hold back his appetites, for his monomania burnt fuel like a steam engine and required a lot of stoking with base nutrition

5. He might have had a monomania on the subject of his departed idol; but on every other point his wits were as sound as mine

6. indicated that he was in the grip of his monomania

7. "It is the sort of malady which we call monomania," said the doctor

8. At once ferocious and maudlin, I was made to murder my uncle with no extenuating circumstances whatever; Millwood put me down in argument, on every occasion; it became sheer monomania in my master's daughter to care a button for me; and all I can say for my gasping and procrastinating conduct on the fatal morning, is, that it was worthy of the general feebleness of my character

9. The sight of gold, the possession of gold, had become a monomania

10. It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment

11. That it was only then, on the homeward voyage, after the encounter, that the final monomania seized him, seems all but certain from the fact that, at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium, that his mates were forced to lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock

12. But, as in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab's broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural intellect had perished

13. It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted

14. ” This sentence from Shakspeare (I hope it is correctly quoted) is the sole partition between our Assemblymen and a charge of confirmed monomania