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In ten minutes I knew, that a sudden freak on the part of the girl he was engaged to had released him, without fault of his own, and that with this release new life had entered his veins, for the conflict was over and love and duty were now in harmony. "Constance, I would not have you think he was an absolutely perfect man. He was too sensitively organized for that.
The telephone face is no longer a physiognomical freak, but a prevalent expression among the several thousand unfortunate clerks and business men who find extensive use for the telephone necessary. It is a distinctive cast of features, too, which can readily be distinguished from any other by one who can read faces at all.
Even into the serious business of war Pégoud carried his freak aeronautics, though it must be added that his remarkable skill in that direction had enabled him to escape from many a perilous situation. A few days before he fell Pégoud carried out a flight of 186 miles over German territory. He returned unscathed, while the planes of his machine were riddled with bullet holes.
I can't afford to feed you on diamonds from my sacred ring! Did you get your greedy nature from some sable Dodonean ancestress? If we had lived three thousand years ago, I might be superstitious, and construe your freak into an oracular protest against my engagement. Feathered augurs survive their shrines. Clear out! you heretic!"
'Ah, that freak! said Slimak, scrutinizing him with his head on one side; 'he'll bring me bad luck about the field. 'He has a splendid gun, cried Jendrek; 'but what is he shooting? There's nothing but sparrows here. 'Perhaps he is shooting at us? suggested Stasiek timidly. 'Why should he be shooting at us? his father reassured him; 'shooting at people isn't allowed.
"Copper-Beeches" red-leaved beech-trees, very beautiful for ornamental purposes all come from one red-leaved beech, a sort of freak of nature, which was found about a century ago in a wood in Germany.
Trembling with curious excitement, she had wished to evade the eye of her uncle Carovius, for in very truth she was ashamed of him. She regarded him as a sort of comic freak, who, though he had enough to live on, could not be said to be in the best of circumstances.
The authority which elder sisters may be seen so readily to ape and assume was never claimed by Victoria; my mother would not have endured such presumption for a moment. I think Victoria regarded me as a singularly ignorant person, who yet, by fortune's freak, was invested with a strange importance and the prospect at least of great and indefinite power.
Brook, the owner of the Vaughan mine, called in on school business, to tell him how one of the pit boys was striving to educate himself. "He is really in earnest, Merton; it is not a mere freak?" "No, Mr. Brook, the lad will stick to it, I'm sure. He goes by the nickname of Bull-dog, and I don't think he is badly named; he has both the pluck and the tenacity of one."
It was Milt who, when they had labored back up again, when they had sat smiling at each other with comfortable weariness, made her see the canyon not as a freak, but as the miraculous work of a stream rolling grains of sand for millions of years, till it had cut this Jovian intaglio. He seemed to have read whether in books, or in paragraphs in mechanical magazines a good deal about geology.
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