The soft, white stuff that gowned her had the look of foam; against the gray sky she seemed a freakish spirit in the act of vanishing.

" With one of those freakish turns of the weather that takes the conceit out of all weather-prophets, the snow had now ceased to fall, the sun was struggling out of the clouds, and the wind was swinging around to the west.

Along its romantic vale the glittering Irwell meandered, here, through nooks, "o'erhung wi' wildwoods, thickening green;" and there, among lush unshaded pastures; gathering on its way many a mild whispering brook, whose sunlit waters laced the green land with freakish lines of trembling gold.

In truth, therefore, as one diamond is worth numberless bits of glass; so one solid reason is worth innumerable fancies: one grain of true science and sound wisdom in real worth and use doth outweigh loads (if any loads can be) of freakish wit.

There was nothing freakish about his build.

Most tall horses are like tall menthey are freakish and malformed in some of their members; but Diablo was as trim as a pony.

It is possible that not many of his readers have observed the following instances of the freakish in his rhyming art, which however result well.

capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims &c n.; maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky [U.S.], particular, humorsome^, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable &c 83; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle &c (irresolute) 605; frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.

Indeed, though, the heart of Mr. Woods just now was full of loving kindness and capable of any freakish magnanimity.

The most singular and freakish of the turkey's manifestations this, by far!

Freakish-looking men hovered about their weird helicopters and lovingly polished brass and tested engines.

But Thayer says that such a ménage could not last, as Beethoven was "too irritable, too freakish and too stubborn, too easily injured and too hardly reconciled."

This freakish young woman had some acquaintance with Goethe, and after his death published letters alleged to have been sent to her by him.

Again he looked up, this time with a freakish, an almost elfin flicker of his extravagant eyelashes.

Sitting here in this very room he had goaded her into committing freakish misdemeanors.

In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone.

This kinetic process was a constant device of the freakish impulse that he called his devil.

But we cannot end without recognition of the exhilarating extravaganzas of "George A. Birmingham" (Canon Hannay), the freakish and elfin muse of James Stephens, and the coruscating wit of F.P. Dunne, the famous Irish-American humorist, whose "Mr. Dooley" is a household word on both sides of the Atlantic.

Charming Billy half turned once or twice to importune his pack-pony in language humorously querulous, but beyond that he kept silence, wondering what freakish impulse drove Alexander P. Dill to Montana "to raise wild cattle for the Eastern markets."

I never before saw such queer carvings, such freakish pottery, such weird and utterly impossible bric-a-brac.

It was a large, square place, and, as Miss Vale had said, literally stuffed with odd carvings, pottery of a most freakish sort, and weird bric-a-brac.

But he forgets that If the murderer did not visit Hume's with the intention of doing murder, it was rather a freakish thing for him to provide himself with a bayonet.

How dangerous to "ask why" about anyone so freakish as Jimmy Whistler.

Polytheism everywherein Greece especiallyheld of the animistic conception, with its freakish, corruptible deities.

By a misuse of one of Fitzroy's freakish ordinances land-grabbers had got hold of much of the land near Auckland.