This tale told Aristomenus, and his fellow which before obstinatly would give no credit unto him, began to say, Verily there was never so foolish a tale, nor a more absurd lie told than this.
Allen, I used to be the most absurd girl in the world.
Was it so very absurd that this big man should be able to carry off a tiny child?
When people recounted in his hearing the glorious history of Nayanjore with absurd exaggerations he would accept all they said with the utmost gravity, and never doubted, even in his dreams, that any one could disbelieve it.
He used to toss him up in his arms, call to him in absurd baby language, put his face close to the baby's and draw it away again with a grin.
Those who have the pleasure of Babu Nabendu Sekhar's personal acquaintance," the writer went on, "cannot for a moment believe this absurd libel to be true.
This ironical leave taking left me stupefied with astonishment, and well I presaged my coming disgrace from the absurd mummery the chancellor had thought fit to play off.
The imputation was too absurd for belief, but slander cares little for the seeming improbability of such an event.
One idea only took possession of my mind--the absurd desire to know what had become of Noël since we separated, and by what accident I now found him wearing my livery in the castle.
She repaired to madame Adélaïde, before whom she conducted herself in the most absurd and extravagant manner.
But Victor Emmanuel could not grant such an absurd request,--he was even angry; and the Liberator of Naples retired to his island-home with only fifteen shillings in his pocket!
You mustnt mind this absurd dress: it belongs to a new piece I am studying.
And yet it seems absurd to be stopped by the want of such a sum.
It is absurd to speak of a woman of her age and experience being betrayed, as though she were a child.
Is it not absurd of Jasper to snatch at such an excuse for breaking off the match?
Our school does not hold anything so absurd as that Daphne was a real girl pursued by a young man.
Poor Captain Cuttwater, grieved to have his good nature checked, was obliged to put up with this excuse, and consoled himself with abusing the Government which could condescend to give so absurdan order.
It seems a little absurd to couple the word "terrible" with any action of mere inanimate matter, from which, after all, we stood in no very evident peril.
The wrinkles were so faint as to be not worth mentioning, while, as for the stiffness of her joints, she was suddenly conscious of an absurd and even improper inclination to run up the stairs and down them.
Is it not absurd for a small army of a weak nation to invade a great nation in the face of more powerful armies?
It was not war, neither was it magnificent; it was too absurd to be grand.
Just see what an absurd decision they have reached," he said to the associate on his left.
But the more foolish and absurd they are, the more pity is due them.
The absurd pretensions of galvanic baths for the extraction of mercury from the system will be remembered by most of our citizens, and the shocking practice of others is not forgotten.
I was anxious to escape from this absurd position of mine as soon as possible, and here is the opportunity most considerately put into my hands.
Owen desponded about ever getting done; Morgan grumbled at what he called theabsurd difficulty of writing nonsense.
Southey adds, in a note--"Absurd accounts have been published both of the place itself, and the difficulty of reaching it.
The tale of the stirrups is perhaps a little too absurd even for Borrodale.
Milton mentions this legend, and naïvely adds, "it is too absurd and unconscionably gross to be believed.
By theseabsurd decrees Bertulphe the provost, his daughter Constance, and his knightly son-in-law were all serfs.
The result of this absurd law was that Bertulphe slew the earl and then himself, Constance went mad and died, Bouchard and Thancmar slew each other in fight, and all Bruges was thrown into confusion.
Next day she inquired for the prince, but her inquiry was thought so absurdthat she was confined as a madwoman.
Much jaw about nothing at Society, and absurd violence.
I am very sorry now to think that I may have been guilty of an altogether absurd presumption, in dreaming of the cabinet.
What could be more arrogant and absurdthan that the protector, who was not sovereign, should talk about 'conceding' reforms to a free and independent state?
He quite realised that what he said was absurd in Mathilde's eyes, but he wished to impress her by the elegance of his diction.
What he was copying seemed so absurd that he finished up by transcribing it line for line without thinking of the sense.
The continuous attention with which he kept on studying his slightest actions with the absurd idea of appearing a man of experience had only one advantage.
They made the mostabsurd mistakes which he alone noticed.
If, by any luck, he made himself speak, he came out with the most absurd things.
Yielding to necessity and having fear of the law seemed absurd and humiliating for a man in his position.
It was in this way that his depressed imagination found a certain relief in running after the most absurd chimaeras.
There was no inclination in me to smile, even at the absurd choice of a word.
He wore the school cap at the back of his head, where it clung to his tumbling hair like some absurd disguise circumstances forced him to adopt for the moment.
It has many easy poetic lines, imitates Churchill, and is fully as incoherent and absurd in its plan as the worst of the latter's.
Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation, and it seems to me as absurd as if a butterfly were to teach bees to make honey.
