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Updated: June 18, 2025
The absurdest notions ran in utter confusion through my mind. I thought madness was coming on! But at last a noise of footsteps was heard in the dark abyss. Hans was approaching. A flickering light was beginning to glimmer on the wall of our darksome prison; then it came out full at the mouth of the gallery. Hans appeared.
This tissue of evidence was perhaps the absurdest ever used against even a witch, but the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. It is not unpleasant to know that Justice Archer met with a good deal of criticism for his part in the affair. In the following year occurred the trials at Bury St.
This unexpected inquiry put me into such a difficulty that I began saying in the absurdest way that if there had been any such person I had no doubt she would have been quite well and would have been very much obliged and would have sent her compliments, when the nurse came to my rescue. "Well!" she cried, picking up the pocket-handkerchief, "if that don't make seven times!
He transposed the summary into a second summary, increasing the expense margins, and cutting down the income items to an absurdest least possible. Still the result was satisfactory. He tore up the sheets of figures and wrote out a program for the future handling of the Harvest situation.
'I believe you are the absurdest man on the face of the earth, said Lightwood, laughing. 'Not at all, I assure you. Did he mention that he knew me? 'He did not. He only said of you that he expected to be paid by you. 'Which looks, remarked Eugene with much gravity, 'like NOT knowing me.
There were cassena bushes, full of vivid scarlet berries; and crooked, gray-green cedars; and brown boles of pine-trees; and the shallowest, gayest, absurdest little thread of a brook giggling as it went about its important business of keeping a lip of woodland green. It was very, very still there, somewhat as Gethsemane might have been, I fancy.
The local yeomanry would have turned out against the Continental army with as high a spirit as that with which they swarmed about the British enemy at Lexington or King's Mountain. A government which could not collect the taxes for its yearly budget without firing upon citizens or blockading two or three harbours would have been the absurdest political anomaly imaginable.
Don Quixote begged Sancho to give himself five hundred lashes on behalf of his enchanted Dulcinea before they set off; but this request struck the squire as the absurdest one he had ever heard. How could his master expect him to sit on a hard wooden horse while he was all bruised and sore from the lashes?
He said, that we have the absurdest ideas you tell me to repeat his words of any girls that ever existed; and then he put a question: listen: I give it without comment: 'I dare say, you all object to widows marrying again. I kept myself quiet. 'Marrying again, papa! If they marry once they might as well marry a dozen times. It was the best way to irritate him.
Clasping his arm round a lamp-post, to prevent being carried away by the turbulent stream of wayfarers, he scrutinized every face, with the idea that some one of them might meet his eyes with a glance of intelligence. He looked at each mask, harlequin, ape, bulbous-headed monster, or anything that was absurdest, not knowing but that the messenger might come, even in such fantastic guise.
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