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...matter of fact, there are no very trustworthy connections of ours. It is a grotesque and unprecedented position.” “It is,” said Isbister. “As a matter... ...ormer fight, it seemed, had suddenly dropped out of sound and hearing. And—grotesque thought!—they were fighting for him! For a space he was like a ma... ...f eye and mind, into “Here is Eadhamite,” or, “Labour Bureau—Little Side?” Grotesque thought, that in all probability some or all of these cliff-like ... ...e,” and she indicated her eyelid. Graham had an adventurous moment. Then a grotesque memory of a picture he had somewhere seen of Uncle T oby and the ... ... without any strength of modelling or drawing, for the most part intricate grotesques or the ringing of the changes on a geometrical motif. These work... ...a little room where this proclamation of his was to be made. This room was grotesquely latter-day in its appointments. In the centre was a bright oval... ...dressed himself to the unseen multitudes who stared upon him through those grotesque black eyes. At first he spoke slowly. “Men and women of the new a...

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...through the hatchway, looking back, still astonished beyond measure at the grotesque ugliness of this black-faced creature. I had never beheld such a ... ...edge. I fancied while we were still far off that I saw some other and very grotesque-looking creatures scuttle into the bushes upon the slope; but I s... ...rupted my tangle of mystification and suspicion about one o’clock, and his grotesque attendant followed him with a tray bearing bread, some herbs and ... ... cloth, and was of a copper- coloured hue, with black hair. It seemed that grotesque ugli- ness was an invariable character of these islanders. I coul... ...rabbit vanishing up the slope. I jumped to my feet. The apparition of this grotesque, half- bestial creature had suddenly populated the stillness of t... ...d ruins of a huge fallen tree and still unaware of my approach, were three grotesque human figures. One was evidently a female; the other two were men... .... Sa- liva dripped from their lipless mouths. Suddenly, as I watched their grotesque and unaccountable gestures, I perceived clearly for the first tim... ...I had heard his name, I had been trying to link in my mind in some way the grotesque animalism of the islanders with his abominations; and now I thoug... ...ave imagined I was already dead and in another world. That dark hut, these grotesque dim figures, just flecked here and there by a glimmer of light, a...

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...sence before him was a presence, the horror within him a horror, but the waste of his nights had been only grotesque and the success of his adven- tur...

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...smile over the whole breadth of her visage, so that it looked not unlike a grotesque carving in wood, darkened by centuries. “Listen, signor! There is... ... had seen the strange, half shaped monsters, and visions of faces horribly grotesque, into which the smoke seemed to wreathe itself, and had heard the... ...mental pump heads, and wooden urns for gate posts, and decora tions, more grotesque than fanciful, for mantelpieces. No apothecary would have deemed ...

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...s descending on it at every snip of the scissors. He turned to me his face grotesque beyond the fantasies of mad dreams, one cheek all bushy as if wit... ...ng for that little lot.” 69 Joseph Conrad “Mr. Burns!” I cried. He nodded grotesquely over his raised legs, like two broom- sticks in the pyjamas, wi...

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...ara- pet with a heavy balustrade, ornamented from space to space with huge grotesque figures of animals seated upon their haunches, among which the fa... ...fruit-trees, and exhibited a profusion of flowers and evergreens, cut into grotesque forms. It was laid out in terraces, which descended rank by rank ... ...e to the tune, he beheld Waverley, and instantly doffed his cap, with many grotesque signals of surprise, respect, and salutation. Edward, though with... ...tures at him, when he was looking another way, into the resemblance of the grotesque face on the bowl of a Ger- man tobacco-pipe; after which, with an... ...g been wanting to recommend the match. His absurdities, which had appeared grotesquely ludi- crous during his prosperity, seemed, in the sunset of his...

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...and thinking of the poor people who would read them. Then I laughed at the grotesqueness of the affair, and the laughter mixed itself up with the chok... ...henomenally ugly; and all his attempts to adorn himself only made him more grotesque. He was not christened “The Langur”—which means gray ape—for noth... ...ooked down on the performance, and, to my thinking, seemed to heighten the grotesqueness of it all. Just when the silence was getting unendurable, the...

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...tephenson of the steam-engine. And surely of all honoured names none is so grotesquely and tragically honoured as poor Filmer’s, the timid, intellectu... ...e found himself doubting whether his memory might not have played him some grotesque trick, debating whether any of these things could possibly have h... ...there were beautiful figures, strange dragons, and intricate and wonderful grotesques bear- ing lights. The place was inundated with artificial light ...

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...h their mouldy genealogy, interested the sculptor by its wild, and perhaps grotesque, yet not unfascinating peculiarity. He caught at it the more eage... ... credit for a statement which might be deemed to partake so largely of the grotesque. But it was indisputable that, once in a century or oftener, a so... ... man; and he added, smiling, yet in a melan- choly vein, and with a German grotesqueness of idea, “Some fine morning, I shall come to the Pinacotheca ... ...on in Paradise. It may be only age and care that chill the life out of its grotesque and airy riot, with the impertinence of their cold criticism. Ken... ...him. They were still hand in hand, and appeared to be straying through the grotesque and animated scene, taking as little part in it as himself. It mi... ...row; she let her eyelids fall, and, lifting them again, looked through the grotesque and gorgeous show, the chaos of mad jollity, in quest of some obj... ...beauty which the Author fancied in it, and be- comes nothing better than a grotesque absurdity, if we bring it into the actual light of day. He had ho...

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...towns, draw bridged and walled: with odd little towers at the angles, like grotesque faces, as if the wall had put a mask on, and were staring down in... ...eat blue woolly furniture, of immense weight and thickness, with a pair of grotesque horns growing out of the collar, very much too warm for the Midsu... ...as good specimens of the class generally. They are abundant in Italy. In a grotesque squareness of outline, and impossibility of perspective, they are... ...t of a hairdresser’s window and cast into the furnace. There he is: a most grotesque and hideously comic old soul: for ever blistering in the real sun... ...mpanile—ancient buildings, of a sombre brown, embellished with innumerable grotesque monsters and dreamy looking creatures carved in marble and red st... ...warring with Jove) on the walls of another room, so inconceivably ugly and grotesque, that it is marvel lous how any man can have imagined such creat...

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...r landing of the spiral ascent, he paused a moment before laying hold of a grotesque knocker which ornamented the door of the atelier where the famous...

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.... “Because it irritates me to see a clever man blunder so. My pictures are grotesque.” “And the one I possess—” “That one is rather worse than usual.”... ...no answer at all but a day or two afterward he found in a curiosity shop a grotesque little statuette in ivory, of the sixteenth cen- tury, which he s... ...“Are you very religious?” asked Newman, in a tone which gave the inquiry a grotesque effect. M. de Bellegarde evidently appreciated the comical ele- m... ...ed him, moreover, to think that Valentin lacked money; there was a painful grotesqueness in it. It affected him as the ignorance of a companion, other... ... herself in a cell was a confounding combination of the inexorable and the grotesque. As the image deepened be- fore him the grotesque seemed to expan... ...then presently transferred his glance to Newman, as if he too were a large grotesque in a rather vulgar system of chamber-decoration. “I suppose you k... ...minded him of what he had read of eastern and southern countries, in which grotesque idols and fetiches were sometimes taken out of their temples and ...

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...r. Now, Captain Bob’s “gig” was exceedingly small; so small, and of such a grotesque shape, that the sailors christened it the Pill Box; and by this a... ...and; terminating, at the distance of several miles, in a range of the most grotesque elevations, which seem embattled with turrets and towers, grown o... ...ian- tree, had purposely been left twisting over the palisade, in the most grotesque manner, and thus made a pleasant shade. The branches of this curi... ...e hills close in on every side, knee-deep in verdure and shooting aloft in grotesque peaks. The open space lies at the head of the bay; in the distanc...

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...show his appreciation of their works by silence and a cheque-book. It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft compre- he... ...long list of his troubles. The saddest thing about them was that they were grotesque, and the more pathetic they were, the more you wanted to laugh. B... ... the rec- ollection of an emotion. He seemed to see his fel- low-creatures grotesquely , and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life ...

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... developed in solitude. In that characteristic attitude, pa- thetic in his grotesque and incurable obesity which he had to drag like a galley slave’s ... ...at moral intercourse between the inhabitants of remote plan- ets. But this grotesque incarnation of humanitarian passion appealed somehow, to one’s im... ...k man, with the eyeglass on a broad ribbon, pronounced mincingly the word “Grotesque,” whose justness was appre- ciated by those standing near him. Th... ...ance. Its aspect was so profoundly lamentable, with such a perfec- tion of grotesque misery and weirdness of macabre detail, as if it were the Cab of ...

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... laugh; then they all copied the first; and they ran round Philip, limping grotesquely , screaming in their treble voices with shrill laugh- ter . The... ... tedious, and suddenly he noticed that he wore elastic-sided boots: it was grotesque and ridiculous; so he withdrew his mind and thought of the gothic... ...rds with venom. “Look, those arms are not the same length. That knee, it’s grotesque. I tell you a child of five. Y ou see, she’s not standing on her ... ...he Levantine unfolded a table-cloth, red and yellow , vulgar, hideous, and grotesque. “Thirty-five francs,” he said. “O, my uncle, this cloth knew not... ...k of anguish. Then two tears rolled down her cheeks. She looked frowsy and grotesque. Philip, not knowing what on earth this new attitude im- plied, w... ...ease had clothed himself in a tweed suit and a Trinity Hall tie. He looked grotesquely British. The others were elaborately polite to him, and during ... ...med impossible that he should be in love with Mildred Rogers. Her name was grotesque. He did not think her pretty; he hated the thinness of her, only ... ...d, with her head thrown back and her arms hanging by her side. She had the grotesque look of one of those painters’ dummies used to hang draper- ies o... ... time; if he tried with all his might he could forget her; and it would be grotesque to kill himself on account of a vulgar slut. He had only one life...

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...stly attire: indeed, some of the costumes may have been, for aught I know, grotesque enough. But the decorum and propriety of behaviour which pre vai... ... youthful pigs, which was so very human as to be inexpressibly comical and grotesque at the time, though I dare say, in telling, it is tame enough. On... ... who have visited the chapel, is perfectly accurate; it must be infinitely grotesque. They are governed by a woman, and her rule is under stood to be...

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...repugnant in the light of Selden’s ex- pected coming. The contrast was too grotesque: she could scarcely suppress the smile it provoked. She decided t... ...e ru- 178 House of Mirth ined by a man’s inability to digest fresh bread. Grotesque? Y es—and tragic—like most absurdities. There’s nothing grim- mer... ..., that she had despatched Dorset to consult with Lawrence Selden. Once the grotesque- ness of the situation accepted, she had seen at a glance that it...

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... king Louis XII., on which there was at that time a much greater number of grotesque carvings than we see there to-day,—grotesque, that is to say, if ... ...h hung for three 194 Catherine dé Medici days at Montfaucon, by putting a grotesque toothpick into his mouth. History has recorded this atrocious lev...

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...that kind which never looks clean or wholesome. But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to b... ...The same glance at the mirror conveyed to her the reflection of a horribly grotesque and distorted face with the tongue lolling out; and the next inst... ...little man, she was much in clined to laugh at his uncouth appearance and grotesque attitude. And yet there was visible on the part of the child a pa... ...rust his head was close to the inn larder; and there he stood, bowing with grotesque politeness; as much at his ease as if the door were that of his o... ...od, the dwarf pulled off his hat, and saluted the party with a hideous and grotesque politeness. ‘Aha!’ he cried. ‘Where now, Brass? where now? Sally ...