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I do assure you, Nelly, that, until you leave off that monstrosity of steel and cordage, your sense and taste, so far as costume is concerned, must be taken on credit, as well as your curtsies. Mrs. Grey. Leave off my hoop? Would you have me look like a fright? as slinky as if I had been drawn through a key-hole? Miss Larches. Leave off her hoop? Mr. Key. Be seen without a hoop?
He didn't care what awful crash might overtake him, with what ignominy or what monstrosity he might yet he associated since he wasn't after all too utterly old to suffer if it would only be decently proportionate to the posture he had kept, all his life, in the threatened presence of it. He had but one desire left that he shouldn't have been "sold."
Its mother had been covered by a hart. Writing in 1557, Lycosthenes reports the mythical birth of a serpent by a woman. It is quite possible that some known and classified type of monstrosity was indicated here in vague terms.
The door opened, and through it there waddled, rolled, or crawled a metal-clad monstrosity a thing with wheels, legs, and writhing tentacles of jointed bronze; a thing possessed of defensive screens sufficiently powerful to absorb the full blast of the Triplanetary projectors without effort.
Ballantyne has summed up about all there is to be said on this national monstrosity, and his discussion of the case from its historic as well as teratologic standpoint is so excellent that his conclusions will be quoted "It may be urged that the date fixed for the birth of the Biddenden Maids is so remote as to throw grave doubt upon the reality of the occurrence.
If a variation which approaches the nature of a monstrosity can strive thus forcibly to reproduce itself, it is not wonderful that less aberrant modifications should tend to be preserved even more strongly; and the history of the Ancon sheep is, in this respect, particularly instructive.
It was inconceivable that they, of all people, should be so forlorn. One night Hall turned suddenly upon Billy, who had been following dimly and who only comprehended that to them everything in life was rotten and wrong. "Here, you pagan, you, you stolid and flesh-fettered ox, you monstrosity of over-weening and perennial health and joy, what do you think of it?" Hall demanded.
This fellow is a monstrosity, and his wife has a pocket for a cradle, and I don't know who they are nor where they came from, they were left over from before the Flood, perhaps, they look somehow prehistoric to me. I am not acquainted with the family." And turning his head aside he would wave away the dainty, the delight of the pioneer epicure time out of mind.
The little boy has no proper place in this world, and his drowning, so far from being pathetic, was the best thing that could happen to him. For he was a freak, a monstrosity. Even those who may not accept this view must at least agree that he ought to have known better, and deserved a whipping rather than the reward of martyrdom and sentimental praise.
Then there was a forth, a monstrosity of four animated legs walking toward them, a bodiless unit of Siamese twins under a sole umbrella that in passing was shown to be of separate beings, male and female counterparts, much younger than he was, and, in a state of subdued happiness, much more naïve than he could ever recall being.
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