I admit the thing's ridiculous; but at first I felt I'd better pull out.

"Now you're clean ridiculous!

I could stand it no longer, and thus broke forth: "See here, my good fellow, you've got plenty of cheek to be bothering me with your confounded ridiculous questions; and so I'll answer you once for all.

Did you ever know such ridiculous people?"

" "You look about fifty in those ridiculous clothes," said Patty.

But, my lords, it is ridiculous to suspect where nothing appears to provoke suspicion, and I am very far from imagining that the dangers of innovation, however artfully magnified, or the apprehensions of the soldiers, however rhetorically represented, will be thought of any weight.

"No man can jump to such a ridiculous conclusion and call it knowledge without making me doubt him on all points.

"Am I to sit here while the whole world makes itself ridiculous by staring at me?"

By Jupiter, I make myself ridiculous too often, pandering to a lot of courtiers!

His pallor made the hastily applied cosmetics look ridiculous.

What a ridiculous thing to say!

But she was wrapt up in the child as I never saw any woman wrapt up in a brat before or since; and I've known some that were pretty ridiculous in that way," said the doctor, and his voice shook more than ever.

Ah! how heartless it all sounds, and yet how ridiculous!

Who ever heard of him or his family, I should like to know, outside this ridiculous place?

"He came back so pompous and superior; talking about his father's place, and being the only man in the house, and obliged to look after you all; and it was all so ridiculous, and so out of date.

"Of all the infernal, ridiculous twaddle!"

This might be one reason for his being neglected in the annals of the civil war: another might be, his unnecessary, or rather ridiculous shew of finery, which he affected in decorating his troop of horse.

They have very much the air of an ignorant compilation, fabricated in the name of Oderic, perhaps upon some slight foundation, and stuffed with ill-assorted stories and descriptions from Marco Polo, and other, writers, interspersed with a few ridiculous miracles, for the honour or disgrace of the minorite order.

Having a desire to travel, he crossed the sea in 1322, or 1332, for different manuscripts give both dates, and set out on a journey through France towards the Holy Land, a description of which country, replete with monkish tales, and filled with the most absurd holy fables, occupies half of his ridiculous book.

His descriptions seem disguised extracts from Polo, with ridiculous exaggerations and additions; as of snail shells so large as to hold many persons.

His account of the pretended varieties of the human race, as of nations of Hermaphrodites, and others equally ridiculous, which he places in separate islands of the Indian ocean, are mere transcripts from Pliny.

And a thousand other fictions and absurdities, too ridiculous even for the credulity of children.

The time has got a vein of making him ridiculous, and men laugh at him by tradition, and no unlucky absurdity but is put upon his profession, and done like a scholar.

Thus is he [silly and] ridiculous, and it continues with him for some quarter of a year out of the university.

This is rather too much, Gentlemen of the Commune; it outsteps the bounds of the ridiculous; you count a little too much this time on the complicity of some of the population, and on the patience of others.