However absurd may be the religion of the Dahcotahs, they are zealous in their devotion to it.

"Any form of faiththe crudest, the most absurd that any soul ever staked its salvation uponmust always be the most interesting subject in the world to every thinking mind.

'Absurd' is under the circumstances a rather strong word to use; but, granting that it would have been even 'absurd' to allege this passage, if it had stood alone, as a sufficient proof of the use of the Gospel, it does not follow that there can be any objection to the more guarded statement that it invests the use of the Gospel with a certain antecedent probability.

It was so much more ridiculous than ridicule, so much more absurd than absurdity.

Other plans for the prolongation of life, little less absurd than animal magnetism, which have, like every other imposture, "fretted their hour," deserve to be noticed.

Even those who have perplexed a state, Whose actions claim contempt and hate, Had wretches to applaud their schemes, Though more absurd than madmen's dreams.