It amused his active brain, besides (as he had said to Mr. Saffron) exercising his active body, though certainly in a rather grotesque and bizarre fashion.

If he has, I'm afraid that you may see somethingwell, something rather bizarre, Dr. Arkroyd.

It allthe whole bizarre scenevanished from their ken, as though it had been one of those alluring, thwarting dreams which afflict men in sleep.

The antique sombre uniformity of the furniture as a whole was broken at odd intervals by several articles of bizarre modernity, including a few daring French prints, which struck an odd note of incongruity in such a room.

Then, realizing that she had actually said something polite, she added, "You bizarre jumble of soup cans and gigabytes.

They had pulled up for the introduction close by the opening on the lake; and while the architect was exchanging greetings with Ida, his keen eyes wandered now and again to the Villa; and as Ida turned to ride back with them, he said: "That is rather a fine place over there, Miss Heron; rather bizarre and conspicuous, but striking and rather artistic.

And yet that odd familiar fragranceIt seemed to belong to a foreign bizarre personality such as Sonia Turgeinov's.

The bandage possessed a subtly weird and bizarre interest for the young girl.

In fine, the effects observed in our autumn foliage may be traced in the people themselves, a heightening of colors; and while this accounts for much that is prurient and bizarre, it infolds also the best promise of America.

There are some truths so bizarre that they make you feel self-conscious and guilty before you have begun to state them; you state them apologetically; you blush; you stammer; you have all the air of one who does not expect belief; you look a fool; you feel a fool; and you bring disaster on yourself.

She thought it bizarre, but she certainly had not taken it for a sign of lunacy.

She thought we were mad; and I overheard her presently telling her partnerwhen she could get him to listenthat no one would believe the bizarre conversations of the toqués English unless they actually heard them!

It was certainly an extremely odd caseone of those affairs that, coming to light at intervals, but more often remaining unheard of by the general public, convince one that, after all, there is very little extravagance about Mr. R.L. Stevenson's bizarre imaginings of doings in London in his "New Arabian Nights."

Where nature presented a bizarre mass of rocks, the Druid worked, and peopled it with his gods, the most remarkable of which is the subject of our engraving, called the Wring Cheese, or Cheese Wring, in the parish of St. Clare, near Liskeard, in Cornwall.

I am inclined to think that the most bizarre incident I saw during the bombardment of the outer forts was the flight of the women inmates of a madhouse at Duffel.

by Antonio di S. Gallo, who once more reverted to the Latin cross, and proposed a novel form of cupola with flanking towers for the façade, of bizarre rather than beautiful proportions.

His supposed pupil, Antonio del Pollajuolo, showed no sign of Ghiberti's influence, but struck out for himself a style distinguished by almost brutal energy and bizarre realismcharacteristics the very opposite to those of his master.

Art and science were never separated in his work; and both were not unfrequently subservient to some fanciful caprice, some bizarre freak of originality.

From what has been already said we shall be better able to understand Lionardo's love of the bizarre and grotesque.

The Marquis of Anglesey died at the early age of twenty-nine, much lamented, as I have hintedby his creditors, but no less sincerely lamented, too, by those for whom his flamboyant personality and bizarre whims added to that gaiety of nations sadly in need today of such figures.

Among the swarm of small crustaceans moving around on the sandy bottom, hunting, eating, or fighting with a ferocious entanglement of claws, the onlookers always search for a bizarre and extravagant little creature, the paguro, nicknamed "Bernard, the Hermit."

But if you choose to make the bizarre supposition that this spoon-world is real, and your imagethe spoon-mana thinking and speaking being, certain interesting facts could be developed by a discussion between yourself and him.

In many Spanish cabinets the influence of Saracenic art is very dominant; these have generally a plain exterior, the front is hinged as a fall-down flap, and discloses a decorative effect which reminds one of some of the Alhambra workquaint arches inlaid with ivory, of a somewhat bizarre coloring of blue and vermilionaltogether a rather barbarous but rich and effective treatment.

He had often employed a bizarre forma stanza of three lines whose middle verse was unrhymed, and a tiercet with but one rhyme, followed by a single line, an echoing refrain like "Dansons la Gigue" in Streets.

her lips articulating those bizarre and delicate lines which Mallarme makes her utter: O miroir!