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They had been deeply interested in him so long as it seemed likely that he was to come to them before their clearly expressed desire for him had been so monstrously ignored. But now what became of him was no earthly concern of theirs.
It required a little more courage than he had been able to muster up to seek an audience with the millionaire beard the lion in his den, as it were and dare propose such a monstrously preposterous thing as the asking of his lovely, dainty young daughter's hand in marriage. Lester was timid.
Noisy boat-tailed grackles, or "jackdaws," were plentiful about the lakeside, monstrously long in the tail, and almost as large as the fish crows, which were often there with them.
Not in my appearance, I reasoned, for I was a personable young man, a little over thirty at the time, with no obvious defects a few visits to the dentist wouldnt have removed. Of course I do have an unfortunate skin condition, but such a thing's an act of God, as the lawyers say, and people must take me as I am. No, it wasnt my appearance ... or was it? That monstrously outsized pump!
The four faces haunted the minds of children falling asleep; they hung upon the minds of children waking at night; they rose forebodingly in the minds of children waking in the morning; they became monstrously alive in the minds of children lying sick of fever.
In this, however, we differ; our cuckolds are laughed at as fools, which is monstrously absurd, whilst the transgressor is denominated a fine fellow, no less monstrously unjust. 'Twere too puritanical, perhaps, to join Cowper in his ironical commendation;
"Ha!" said Lady Casterley, and led on at her brisk pace towards the avenue. All the way down the drive she discoursed on woodcraft, glancing sharply at the trees. Forestry she said-like building, and all other pursuits which required, faith and patient industry, was a lost art in this second-hand age. Here, at Monkland, they were monstrously neglected.
Burghley rejoined that the Hollanders had the whole world beside to pursue their traffic in, that they did indeed trade over the whole world, and had thereby become so extraordinarily, monstrously rich that there was no believing it.
Interrupted by an audible gasp of shock from a spinster-appearing female sunning herself hard by and angularly in the sand in a swimming suit monstrously unbeautiful, Lee Barton was aware of an involuntary and almost perceptible stiffening on the part of his wife. "I smile with pleasure," he told her. "It serves only to make your valiant little shoulders the more valiant.
Six-inch trees, throated with rotten remnants of thatched roofs through which they had aspired toward the sun, rose about him. Quick-growing trees had shadowed the kingposts so that the idols and totems, seated in carved shark jaws, grinned greenly and monstrously at the futility of man through a rime of moss and mottled fungus.
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