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When I wanted to run away a very natural desire, considering the scrupulous attention I've always paid to my bodily well-being I reflected on the preposterous obstacles put in the way of flight by a bowelless military system, and adapted myself to the static and dynamic conditions of the trenches." "Gorblime!" said Mo Shendish, stretched out by his side, "just listen to him!"
It was true also that there emerged at times a singular likeness in Hester's beauty a likeness of expression and gesture to the blunt and powerful aspect of the Rector.... And yet! Did his father believe, for a moment, the preposterous things he was saying?
Nobody ever seemed to notice this preposterous shadow; it was patent, indeed, that nobody could see it save Jurgen: none the less, the thing worried him. So even from the first he remembered Guenevere as a soft voice and a delectable perfume in twilight, as a beauty not clearly visioned. And Gogyrvan's people worried him.
Nor can they admit that man was made suddenly out of the dust of the earth; while it would be an insult to ask an evolutionist whether he credits the preposterous fable respecting the fabrication of woman to which Suarez pins his faith. If Suarez has rightly stated Catholic doctrine, then is evolution utter heresy. And such I believe it to be.
However preposterous may appear to us this notion that the waking state, in which we feel ourselves most potent and alive, is really one of inhibition that the world is only a "shoal of time" it is curiously borne out by the baffling phenomena of dreams and is in perfect accord with the Higher Space Hypothesis.
"Let us walk on towards The Hard. Pray let us walk on. Has no rumour ever reached you, Miss Verity, regarding this young man?" The wildest ideas flitted through Miss Felicia's brain. The figure in shiny oilskins yet preposterous, surely? After all, an affair of the heart misplaced affection Damaris? Did this account for the apparent indifference? How intensely interesting; yet how unwise.
I was mortified by this exposure of my ignorance, and disgusted with my former course of reading. I now set myself violently to the study of history. With my turn of mind, and with the preposterous habits which I had been daily acquiring, I could not fail to make as gross mistakes in the pursuit of this as of other branches of knowledge.
I, like other men, profess to hold that if a husband gets such a so-called preposterous request from his wife, the only course that can possibly be regarded as right and proper and honourable in him is to refuse it, and put her virtuously under lock and key, and murder her lover perhaps. But is that essentially right, and proper, and honourable, or is it contemptibly mean and selfish?
I could only read at eight years of age, but from that time until eleven I read a mingled and most preposterous mass of literature and illiterature. It was a substitute for travel, and, in my case, not a substitute only, but a provoker. Reading is mostly dram-drinking, mostly drugging; it throws a veil over realities.
Her generosity could not save the day even if she gave half of all she possessed, a supposition of course preposterous. He could not summon courage to go in the bitterness of his defeat. He scrawled a note and sent it by the sexton. "Feeling too blue to call. Failure complete and pitiful. The subscriptions reach only twenty thousand dollars. There was but one forlorn hope left.
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