She was near madness with the hideous, cruel travesty of such weddings as are dear to the hearts of San Francisco "society" girls.

[Footnote 6: The experiences of the Donner Party, to which he refers in a footnote, suggested to Bret Harte the opening chapters of "Gabriel Conroy"; but he has followed the sensational accounts circulated by the newspapers, and the survivors find his work a mere travesty of the facts.

The oddities of "English as she is spoke" might be abundantly paralleled by those of "Science as she is misunderstood" in the sermon, the novel, and the leading article; and a collection of the grotesque travesties of scientific conceptions, in the shape of essays on such trifles as "the Nature of Life" and the "Origin of All Things," which reach me, from time to time, might well be bound up with them.

To hold one man responsible for the whole War and to bring him to trial, his enemies acting as judge and jury, would have been such a monstrous travesty of justice as to provoke a moral revolt throughout the world.

V. misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub; burlesque, parody, travesty.

He put his own educational ideas into practice at Yannina and Constantinople, and contributed to the great achievement of his contemporary, the Khiot Adhamandios Koráis, who settled in Paris and there evolved a literary adaptation of the Romaic patois to supersede the lifeless travesty of Attic style traditionally affected by ecclesiastical penmen.

If I tried till my death-day, I should never arrive at any thing but a miserable travesty.

" Liane sniffed mournfully and dabbed at her nose with a ridiculous travesty of a handkerchief.

For there was an under side to all this gold-tissued splendor that was sometimes laid bare to the people, in spite of the deftness with which the Signoria stood tirelessly ready to cover up the flaws; and a recent sad travesty of justice was one of the weird happenings of this time.

Of six we granted one to you; and you profess its creeds, But what a sorry travesty you make of it in deeds!

For he knew within himself that never had that twisted travesty of love stirred within him; that though he had travelled on many a golden trail it was clean-heartedly; that it was the game itself that counted ever with him and no such poisonous emotions as grew within the wretched breast of Loony Honeycutt.

It reads like an unintentional travesty of Herbartian Psychology by one who has tried to improve upon it without being at the pains to master it.'

The conduct of Rochester is so primevally and superhumanly caddish that Bret Harte in his admirable travesty scarcely exaggerated it.

"I will not lend my countenance before them to such a villainous travesty.

It was a crude travesty of a hymn much sung in religious camp-meetings and revivals, of which the proper chorus as often heard by me in Harry Monroe's mission in the Chicago slums, was: Hallelujah!

Monsieur was a curious travesty of his elder brother.

But Joey's pipsqueak shirker fiancé, Hilary, was altogether too foolish a travesty of a man ever to have gained her hand or, having gained it, to have held it against any real male in or out of khaki.

She was near madness with the hideous, cruel travesty of such weddings as are dear to the hearts of San Francisco "society" girls.