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?

And your family will freak out.

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

"What happened is that Rupert freaked out when I told him I was pregnant.

I told him that you and I had a one time thing last summer, and he freaked out.

"She freaked out when I explained, but the worst is over," Jennifer said.

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.

And now they deemed the courier-ouphe, Some hunter sprite of the elfin ground; And they watched till they saw him mount the roof That canopies the world around; Then glad they left their covert lair, And freaked about in the midnight air.

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.

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

The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,[062]

Outside, the March wind is roughly hustling the dry, brown trees and pinching the diffident green shoots, while the round and rayless sun of late afternoon is staring, from behind the elm-twigs in at the long maps on the wall, in at the high chairstall of back, cruelly tiny of seat, off whose rungs we have kicked all the paintin at the green baize table, richly freaked with splashes.

The clocks tick out the scented hours, and with loud singing of happy birds, with pomp of flowers and bees, and freaked butterflies, God's day treads royally past.

The sky that has been all of one hue during the live-long daywherever you looked, nothing but pale, pale azureis now like the palette of some God-painter splashed and freaked with all manner of great and noble colorsa most regal blaze of goldwide plains of crimson, as if all heaven were flashing at some high thoughtlittle feathery cloud-islands of tenderest rose-pink.