A Scotchman was to the South a comprehensive name for a greedy, beggarly adventurer, knavish and money-loving to the last degree, full of absurd pride of pedigree, clannish and cold-blooded, vindictive as a Corsican, and treacherous as a modern Greek.

"Perhaps," said Louie, innocently, and without a glimpse of the train her thoughtless words fired"perhaps he means for you to marry Frarnie!" laughing a little laugh at the absurd impossibility.

Mars Brown was already amusing everybody with his absurd posturing.

Would a man who could steal one hundred thousand dollars return a quarter of a million? Absurd!

" "That is absurd.

Absurd!" "I respect your chivalrous desire to stand up for a lady who calls you her friend, but we are officials first, and sentiment cannot be permitted to influence us.

But a womanoh, no! it is too absurd.

It was absurd, of course.

Oh, that is too absurd!" cried both the officials in a breath.

"You're absurd and extravagant.

It was absurd, but a curious desire to weep possessed her.

Being a very sensitive child I felt this acutely, but nothing ever shook my belief that, absurd or not, I always saw numbers in this particular way.

What more absurd, than to suppose both syllables short in such words as, "~advent, sin´ner, sup´per," and then give "serm~on, f=ilt~er, sp=ir~it, g=ath~er," and the like, for regular trochees, with "the first syllable long, and the second short," as does this author?

"Emphasis," as here spoken of, not only clashes with "accent," but contradicts itself, by making some syllables long and some short; and, what is more mysteriously absurd, the author says, "It frequently happens that syllables long by QUANTITY become short by EMPHASIS."Everett's Eng.

In all languages they are of course the same, making due allowance for difference of organization; but it is as absurd to suppose that the Greeks should have a system of prosody differing in principle from our own, as that their rules of musical harmony should be different from the modern.

I daresay you'll think it very absurd, but I have made up my mind about it.

Robert, however, had declared that it would be absurd to yield to the temper, and prejudice, and furyas he called itof his father's wife.

Sardanapalus and Heliogabalus may have been whatever else you please, but they were assuredly not commonplace; and the mere mention of their names vibrates with mankind's perennial gratitude for splendour and colossal display, however perverse, and even absurd.

To regard Mr. Shaw either as a great dramatist or an original philosopher is, of course, absurd.

To think wrongly is, first of all, so absurd.

But with Freya one always had to expect something absurd and inconceivable.

He was afraid to speak to him, considering it a lack of discipline to meddle in the management of the boat, so he invented the most absurd pretext in order to run afoul of Ferragut.

Then he smiled lightly, shrugging his shoulders as though he had heard something absurd....

Charlotte, to be sure, called him "my dear master, the only master that I ever had", but if that was not her "absurd charity", it was only her Brontësque way.

But this idea was absurd.