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Money was a tool. He did not over-rate it, nor under-rate it. He used it to buy what he wanted. "The weirdest form of dissipation I ever heard," said Mr. Crockett, holding up Dick's account for the year. "Sixteen thousand for education, all itemized, including railroad fares, porters' tips, and shot-gun cartridges for his teachers." "He passed the examinations just the same," quoth Mr. Slocum.
"But we still have another chance the raid on his house. When will the word come from Karamaneh?" Southery spoke in a weak voice. "Gentlemen," he said, "it seems I am raised from the dead." It was the weirdest moment of the night wherein we heard that newly buried man speak from the mold of his tomb.
Under cover of Fay's outburst a huge crowd of people had entered the room from the hall eight, to be exact. But the weirdest thing about them to Gusterson was that from the first instant he had the impression that only one mind had entered the room and that it did not reside in any of the eight persons, even though he recognized three of them, but in something that they were carrying.
The letter thus scornfully treated runs over with a young girl's written loquacity: "Oh, Lulu, there is such a sensation as you never saw or heard of 'in all your born days, as mamma used to say. He has been at the village for some time, but lately we have had oh, the weirdest stories about him!
It had figured as Medusa as Circe; the wonderful wicked woman of the Middle Ages had come to her in visions with just such subtle eyes, such languorous beauty, such fair white skin and yellow hair; the witch-woman of her weirdest dream had had the look of Florence Lepel; just as Hubert's far different features, with the dark melancholy expression of suffering stamped upon them, had stood for her as those of Fouqué's ideal knights, or of Sintram riding through the dark valley, of Lancelot sinning and repenting, of saint, hero, martyr, paladin, in turn, until she grew old enough to banish such foolish dreams.
"A a musical ghost?" giggled Laura hysterically, but Billie pinched her into silence. "Keep still," she cried. "There it is again!" The girls listened to the eeriest, weirdest music they had ever heard, and Violet slipped shivering under the covers and hid her face with the sheet. "C-come out of that," cried Billie, pulling at the sheet.
Then if we look out we see the other ships of the convoy we hug one another closely just stumbling through the water like phantom shapes and that's the weirdest sight I have ever seen.... To-day we are having gun practice on board the transport trial shots for the subs and the cruiser experimenting with balloon observers. Such are our interests.... Last night I had a wonderful experience.
A group of summer people from the hotel came in and, after pawing over and displacing about half of the movable stock, bought ten or fifteen dollars' worth and departed. Mr. Winslow had the satisfaction of hearing them burst into a shout of laughter as they emerged into the yard and the shrill voice of one of the females in the party rose above the hilarity with: "Isn't he the WEIRDEST thing!"
The spirit of the early history of the United States seemed to reside in that hemicycle; and the crape on the vacated and peculiar chair added its own effect. My first notion on entering the former Congress Chamber was that I was in presence of the weirdest collection of ugly statues that I had ever beheld. Which impression, the result of shock, was undoubtedly false.
The misery of the Russian people, combined with their lack of education, contributed largely towards it, for the desire to escape from material suffering drove them to adopt the weirdest systems of salvation for the sake of deliverance and forgetfulness. The perception of the ideal is often very acute among the uneducated.
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