Somebody called to him, and from his door he beheld the last stages of Flagg's harebrained exploit, a veritable touch- and- go with death. "Joan of Arc of the North Woods" by Holman Day

What a harebrained performance! "San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams" by Charles Paul de Kock

Half an hour later Nicholas Ratcliffe, the wit and clown of his regiment, regarded by many as harebrained or wantonly reckless, carried away from the beleaguered fort among the hostile mountains the slight, impassive figure of an English girl. "The Way of an Eagle" by Ethel M. Dell