Her gay freaks were quite gone, her wildness, her invention.

One result of this isolation is, that freaks which would be very strange escapades in other people with him are mere commonplaces.

You always were odd, but this last freak is the strangest of all.

" "What new freak of yours is this, my boy?" said his father, smiling.

Otto had not indeed given up the habits he had learnt at Göttingen; his wild freaks, his noisy entertainments, were the talk of the countryside; the beverage which he has made classical, a mixture of beer and champagne, was the common drink, and he was known far and wide as the mad Bismarck.

At all events, Lady Maud had studiously left out her brothers and sisters in making up the Craythew party, a larger one than had been assembled there for many years; it was so large indeed that the 'freaks' would not have been prominent figures at all, even if they had been such unusual persons as the young man in the Blues imagined them.