Shelley has immortalised this curious freak of plant life in his charming poem, wherein he relates how, "The sensitive plant was the earliest, Up-gathered into the bosom of rest; A sweet child weary of its delight, The feeblest and yet the favourite, Cradled within the embrace of night.

Next, in a freak of ventriloquism, he startles you still more by bringing from the crocodile's mouth a sigh, so long drawn, so human, that you really shudder, and are ready to implore him to play no more tricks.

"All right," answered Jeremy, who loves freak bets, ''if I get him you quit the Army soon as this job's done, and join up with Rammy and me: if I don't I'll stay and help you on the next job.

His demeanor throughout the meal was that of some whimsical monarch condescending for a freak to revel with his humble subjects.

Here he was entertained by the foremost men, some of whom wished to see how a plowman would behave in polite society, while others desired to gaze on what they regarded as a freak of nature.

The screw-propeller as a means of propulsion was known only as a freak idea, and was without status or recognition as a commercial or practical means for propelling ships.

They looked upon the thing as a freak of girlhood which drifted into eccentricity, from sheer idleness; yet they were not the less ready to teach Mary anything she desired to learn.

Gave she her gold for a girlish whim, A freak of a foolish mood?

His other leading characteristic was an inordinate craving for Punter's "Freak" biscuits.

So he borrowed some opium from that official and concealed it about the house and in his office, and by-and-by what was required of him seemed to dawn on Little Willie, and every time he found a cache of the drug he was rewarded with a Punter's "Freak" biscuit.

The contents consisted solely of Punter's "Freak" biscuits.

"Well," Willow said, coming back to the present, "you knocked Patrick out with that bit about foggy mornings on the Galapagos Islands." "Can I help it if my father is a Darwin freak?

And your family will freak out.

I can't help it if Dad is a Brahms freak.

Tom Hammond had grumbled at first at the labor which this freak of his masters entailed.

Authors freak out.

* Publishers freak out.

Publishers freak out, because they're in the business of grabbing as much copyright as they can and hanging onto it for dear life because, dammit, you never know.

From this freak of dress he has been commonly called, for some time, My-een-gun, or the Wolf.

"But you'll find freak hosses anywhere.

How can I be a half-breed if I'm a thoroughbred?" "True, it makes you a biological freak.

Not but what I'd rather be a biological freak than a grindor a prude.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was trying to commit suicide by becoming a biological freak, and the Madonna of the Chair was wearing a smartly tailored brown rajah suit.

Not that I made it of wine because wine is rare; nor the walls of gold because gold is rare: that would have been too childish: but because I would match for beauty a human work with the works of those Others: and because it happens, by some persistent freak of the earth, that precisely things most rare and costly are generally the most beautiful.

Strange as it may seem, this freak struck Madam Conway favorably.

(an short, to a, the only,) Articles, the frequent use of; freq. misapplication of to be distinguished from adjectives, and from each other appar.

people into e'er a one Ever and never, opposite to each other in sense, yet freq. confounded and misapplied; canon on the employment of Ever so, (prop., everso,) signif.

of German language, form of its type use of the comma less freq.

Abbreviations: lit., literally; ref., reflexive; pret., preterit; rev., reverential; freq., frequentative; post., postposition; Span., a Spanish word.

AHAUIA, v. To rejoice, take pleasure in; freq. of ahuia.

HUEHUETZI, v. freq.

NENEPANOA, v. freq.

POPOLOA, v. Freq. of poloa.