In no instance before that of which I speak, have I known the habitual mystific escape the natural consequence of his manoevres--an attachment of the ludicrous to his own character and person.
The key to the whole was found in leaving out every second and third word alternately, when there appeared a series of ludicrous quizzes upon a single combat as practised in modern times.
The italicised lines give a delightfully ludicrous description of The Scourge of Villainy.
He was still under the influence of liquor though he made ludicrous efforts to conceal it.
With the ludicrous dignity so characteristic of his people, the chief deferred his reply until the following day, at which time he gave consent, his manner being such as to indicate that he was rather unwilling than otherwise.
What a ludicrous figure our fine cavalier will cut in his nightcap!
An incident so ludicrous could not fail to tickle the fancy of the young courtier; and bring his risible faculties into full play.
It was not Will Walford who had summoned up her ludicrous soliloquy; nor yet the cuirassier--he who had called twice.
A slight twinkling in the steel-grey eye of the speaker, while making the concluding remark, told that he had heard of the adventure, and was not insensible to itsludicrous nature.
Some sat down, and with the mostludicrous gestures, tried to clean themselves.
A mostludicrous scene awaited me when I reached the spot.
Instead of reckless oaths, the seamen now uttered frantic cries to God for mercy, mingled with strange and often ludicrous vows, to be performed should deliverance be granted.
Two immense frogs rolled clumsily on the ground, and recovering their feet, sat squat before us, swelling and puffing with a ludicrous air of insulted dignity, while peals of laughter greeted them on all sides.
The beast kept running backward and forward, rising on its hind legs, and then rapidly whirling round and round, nodding its head, and going through most frantic and ludicrous antics.
It is pitifully ludicrous to see him staged to the show like a member--and a very inefficient member--of the secret police.
On the other hand, in ludicrous contrast to these demonstrations of alarm, (supposing them to be related without exaggeration,) the French had never stirred from Castlebar.
I have heard Milton's Paradise Lost and Pollok's Course of Time clashed together in the same ludicrous way.
There is something extremely ludicrous in these claims,--since neither one nor other of the four powers can show the slightest basis for them.
Their resources are few, not even equalling those of their wild but independent brethren; and their customs and religion exhibit a ludicrous melange of savagery and civilisation.
Perhaps our modern abominable hat--though it has a different origin--is not less ludicrous than the tatooed patterns of the savage.
A ludicrous instance is related of the insatiable telescope mania which had seized on the people.
What a ludicrouspicture has Sydney Smith drawn of the animal annoyance of tropical climates.
His ludicrous behaviour on awaking, and finding a clergyman and his friends praying for him by his bedside.
His ludicrous image drawn from a monument in Westminster Abbey.
If thou wouldst be thought in earnest in thy wishes to move the poor lady in thy favour, thy ludicrous behaviour at Smith's, when it comes to be represented to her, will have a very consistent appearance; will it not?
A speckled black and white and tufted hen of ours does it to most ludicrous perfection.
The difference between reality and fiction, is so great, that those who copy from any thing but nature, are continually disposed to make mistakes in their conduct, which appear ludicrous to the impartial spectator.
The pleasures of anticipation will be true to the former, and false to the latter:[43] his false pleasures will be a ludicrous parody on the true ones.
That would be a ludicrous position indeed (remarks Protarchus), to have his mind full of the divine Ideas or cognitions only.
It is a ludicrous and desperate game, but it is certainly not the honest collection and diffusion of news.
Guard duty had sufficient variety to relieve it from monotony, and while many a ludicrous scene happened, occasionally, occurrences not wholly devoid of danger, served to keep us alive.
After admiring their powers of imitation, and, at the same time, enjoying some mostludicrous blunders, we soon found ourselves on the borders of the river.
The last two or three days of our sojourn in the town, several ludicrous scenes occurred at the provost-marshal's, in consequence of the revival of an old order in respect to the uniform of the soldiers.
Not until some years after her death did a foolish woman in whom she had confided publish her story to the world in a book filled from cover to cover with gross and even ludicrous inaccuracies.
And Hobhouse describes a "ludicrous scene" when some common friend related that he had been rejected by Miss Milbanke, and burst into tears over the catastrophe.
It is doubtless owing to the want of sagacity which they manifest under these circumstances, as well as to their ludicrous aspect and eccentric attitudes, that Turkeys have gained the reputation of stupidity.
While the travellers were galloping over the plain the Owls continued their duty as sentries, looking them full in the face, and one after the other shaking their venerable heads in a way which was most ludicrous on account of its solemnity.
I would tell you about it, only I did not discover their ludicrous blunder myself; but here’s a hole where I happened to poke my own finger through the paper.
A Chinaman named Madden … played poker and of course lost to his American friends, … swearing in the most ludicrous jargon.
It was usual with kings in ancient times to choose some ludicrous person, with whose ridiculous and comical tricks they might be diverted in their hours of relaxation, from the cares and formalities of royalty.
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