For there was never proud man thought so
absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.
Moving very slowly, and rearing
absurdly high over each wave, the little boat was now approaching a white crescent of sand.
On the night before the assault on Seringapatam, he was
absurdly angry with me, and with others, for treating the whole thing as a fable.
But this little plot died at its birth, for that very minute the threatened couple arose, and went out arm in arm, apparently as
absurdly happy as two young people can be.
It seemed as though the Priests had no choice between submission and extermination; when suddenly the course of events was completely changed by one of those picturesque incidents which Statesmen ought never to neglect, often to anticipate, and sometimes perhaps to originate, because of the
absurdly disproportionate power with which they appeal to the sympathies of the populace.
He pretended rather
absurdly to be a seaman himself and was already credited with an ill-defined and vaguely illegal enterprise in the Gulf of Mexico.
He regained his feet,
absurdly bristled the hair on his shoulders and
absurdly growled his high disdain of these lesser, two-legged things that came and went and obeyed the wills of great, white-skinned, two-legged gods such as Skipper and Mister Haggin.
Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans, it might seem an
absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one solitary creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet.
They go the length of declaring that this honest creature would do anything for money, that the HISPANIOLA belonged to him, and that he sold it me
absurdly high--the most transparent calumnies.
Of all these men Prince Andrew sympathized most with Pfuel, angry, determined, and
absurdly self-confident as he was.
"Because you are built as
absurdly as a jumping-jack," sneered the horse, rolling his knotty eyes in a vicious manner.
He has a big, loose-jointed figure with
absurdly long legs.