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At last the song ended, and while she clapped mechanically with the rest she gave herself a little shake, and told herself sternly that she was being a goose, that it was absurd, preposterous, even wicked this thought that had flashed into her head. Nita's pin wasn't the only one of its kind; there might be hundreds just like it. Georgia's great grandmother probably had had one too.
It has been a conflict against ignorance, tradition, and vested interests in church and university, with all that preposterous invective and cruel misrepresentation which characterize the fight against new and critical ideas. Those who cried out against scientific discoveries did so in the name of God, of man's dignity, and of holy religion and morality.
As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols. If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now. Topic II. You have taken occasion to say: "Give me not silk, nor rich attire, Nor gold, nor jewels rare." But, my dear fellow, this is preposterous.
As the king's father had long ago flung away the pearl and precious jewel which the son now made a merit of selling to its proprietors at the price of their life's blood the world's commerce it is difficult to imagine that Richardot, while communicating thin preposterous ultimatum, could have kept his countenance. But there were case-hardened politicians on both sides.
"I cannot permit it," the Major was saying, "The whole scheme is preposterous; it is grossly unfair first of all on poor Francis himself " "Pshaw!" said the doctor. "You talk about shock," continued the other without noticing the interruption, "but the shock will be much more severe when he finds out the truth and secondly to Miss Harford. You had no right to suggest such a course.
"I thought at the time that it sounded more like a veritable adventure than a dream; now I am sure that it was such." "Sinclair! You do not mean that the young girl he professed himself to have surprised one moonlit night standing on the verge of the cliff, with arms upstretched and a distracted air, was a real person?" "I do. We laughed at the time; he made it seem so tragic and preposterous.
"What do those figures mean?" she asked. "I can't tell you that. Mr. Fleck will explain everything. Promise me you will go to see him." "Who are you?" "I can't tell you that, yet." "Who, then, is Mr. Fleck?" "He will explain that to you." "What has my address to do with it? I can't understand yet why you make this preposterous request of me."
The robin, looking at him with lack-luster eyes, sunk his poor little head down into his dulled feathers; there was something so familiar in the movement, that Blair cringed. "I want to buy the little beggar," he said, so eagerly that the owner mentioned a preposterous price. Blair took the money out of his pocket, and the bird out of the cage.
That was given to me many years ago by a friend a Princess who has been dead now for many hundreds of years, I said. "'Many hundreds of years? And you say she was a friend of yours? exclaimed the man. 'Absurd! "'Preposterous! declared the other. 'Look here!
"I have an idea, sir," Jack said after a pause. "You know that beautiful pair of ponies which were brought here yesterday for sale? The ladies were in raptures over them, but you said that the price was preposterous, and that the owner wanted as much for them as you had given for your best pair of carriage horses.
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