madly crazily, wildly, in an uncontrolled manner Jumping on to her bike , Brenda pedalled madly away . Then , with her heart still pounding madly , she looked back over her shoulder . It was fun , all the same , hurtling madly downhill , too fast to stop . Ubiquitous skylarks sang madly in the blue above . He glanced to his left and saw the prison chapel , the weather-vane spinning madly in the powerful breeze . very much, a lot But , while 16-year - old pupils swotted madly , he studied casually at home in Roehampton , London . They were not taking the hero for granted , but missing him madly and praying that he would be fit to return for the Davis Cup . In `` Beloved Infidel , '' based on the book by the gossip columnist Sheilah Graham about her love affair with Fitzgerald , it only takes a few chaste kisses from her before Fitzgerald is typing away madly . madly in love When I was twenty I married a man I was madly in love with . very John wrapping her in a scarlet cashmere dressing gown , which she considered madly extravagant but adorable of him . Well , I pretended to love Miss Ingram to make you madly jealous . Not a madly promising menu , and fraught with predictable dangers . I'm scared of him , and I'm fond of him , and I want to be quit of him , and I want to stay with him , and he's totally irrelevant in every way , and I'm madly curious about him . in a way which shows signs of mental illness ` Oh God , ' he whispered as he stared at his captors , his eyes bulging madly . ` Yes , ' said Pike , his eyes glinting madly behind his wire glasses , ` but what is the name ? ' When I first moved into my present garden nine years ago I madly planted all those trees , shrubs and climbers that my previous garden , being rather small , would not allow . His hands feel clammy. They are covered in mud . He can 't think where to wipe them . He flails them around in the air to dry them . She giggles . He waves his hands madlyand giggles back