But they had "mooned" about her and made themselves absurd in vain, while this unconscious Adonis calmly walked, talked, and acted as if she could know nothing else than love him, and one day she started in delicious misery to find that she didthat is, she thought she might ifif?

Other plans for the prolongation of life, little less absurd than animal magnetism, which have, like every other imposture, "fretted their hour," deserve to be noticed.

She might be not much of an alienist, as Dr. Irechester had been kind enough to suggest to Mr. Naylor, but she had seen such cases herselfeven stranger ones, where even higher Powers suffered impersonation, with effects still more tragically absurd to onlookers.

"There is no Theatre in the world has anything so absurd as the English Tragi-Comedy.

How absurd of you.

So is my sacque; and as for my hat, though it does well enough here, it would be absurd for Class Day.

"Richardson never had probably money enough to purchase any, or even a ticket for a masquerade, which gives him such an aversion to them; though his intended satire against them is very absurd on the account of his Harriet, since she might have been carried off in the same manner if she had been going from supper with her grandmamma.

There is nothing absurd about it.

Though it may be thought that an opinion so very absurd could never find credit with people of the meanest understanding, yet I have conversed with some who were much inclined to believe it; so very prevalent is the prodigious and absurd with some part of mankind.

I cannot here forbear reproving the folly and pedantry of some lawyers, whose opinions this poor creature blindly followeth, and rendereth yet more absurd by his comments.

In the criticism of a famous work there is often little left to do but to criticise the criticsto bring to a focus the most salient things that have been said about it, to eliminate the absurd from the sensible, the discriminating from the commonplace.

We indulged in all sorts of follies, we goaded the absurd into showing themselves in their true character.

Another thing: people are a little absurd out of their own places.

The third clause, my lords, is, if not absurd like the former, yet so imperfectly drawn up, that it can produce no advantage; for of what use will it be to station an officer where his majesty shall think fit?

The economists say that it is absurd, but, given the collective madness which has attacked some people, nothing is absurd beyond hoping in the rapid recovery of the most excited nations.

The loneliness of the place had entered our very bones, and silence seemed natural, for after a bit the sound of our voices became a trifle unreal and forced; whispering would have been the fitting mode of communication, I felt, and the human voice, always rather absurd amid the roar of the elements, now carried with it something almost illegitimate.