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Updated: May 1, 2025
How the Shepherd Kings, and the Pharaohs, and the comparatively modern days of Joseph and his brethren, and the ridiculously recent era of Moses, passed, like dim shifting shadows, before her mental vision. She retraced her steps in that dreary book, again and again, patiently, forcing her mind to the uncongenial task.
It was the Duke of Alençon who was especially struck with the skill shown by the heroine in warlike matters; particularly in her science in the management of artillery ridiculously rude as that branch of the service appears to us.
She leant on it imperceptibly for support. "I'm not unnerved," she repeated. "But you are, my dear child. And why should you want to hide that from me?" She stood there, swaying slightly, taking deep breaths to aid her in her effort. "Well, I assure you I feel absolutely all right now. I'm not a bit weak now! I know I was ridiculously foolish "
The contrast between horse and rider the old critter and the young creature was ridiculously striking: the former appearing a burlesque on the most beautiful of quadrupeds, while the latter was the very impersonation of the loveliest of biped forms. It is scarcely probable that the Cyprian goddess could ever have been brought into such a ludicrous juxtaposition a shame upon Mercury if she was!
Beattie took Jim through the story of that ride and that sojourn at the tavern, and every question he asked condemned Jim to a choice of answers, either alternative making him out ridiculously virtuous or criminal. Beattie rehearsed the undenied facts, but substituted for the glamour of innocence in bad luck the sickly glare of cynicism.
I pointed out at the same time that the advertiser, considering the unexpectedly wide publicity which had been given to his desire for second-hand feather beds, had got off ridiculously cheap. I suggested that he might, if approached, agree to pay the extra.25 of a penny. I turned over the other three envelopes and chose for my next experiment one addressed in a delicate female hand.
The greatest and most universal error is, teaching girls to exaggerate the importance of getting married; and of course to place an undue importance upon the polite attentions of gentlemen. It was but a few days since, I heard a pretty and sensible girl say, 'Did you ever see a man so ridiculously fond of his daughters as Mr. ? He is all the time with them.
For one whole hour Judson remained closeted in the stern cabin of the "Mongoose", listening, poring over chart upon chart and taking notes, and for an hour the marine at the door heard nothing but things like these: "Now you'll have to put in here if there's any sea on. That current is ridiculously under-estimated, and it sets west at this season of the year, remember.
I don't in the least grasp the meaning of anything. You yourself volunteered the declaration that you would do great things for me. 'We are rich men together' those were your own words. I urged you at the time to go slowly to consider carefully whether you weren't being too generous. I myself said to you that you were ridiculously exaggerating what you called your obligation to me.
Rashîd, too, as I know, has spoken of the matter in a boastful way. If, after that, we should depart in dudgeon without seeing him, there would be gossip and perhaps God knows even political disturbance. The Governor, coming to hear of it, might reasonably feel aggrieved. He argued so ridiculously, yet so gravely, that in the end I was obliged to yield.
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