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...sily to an interest in my own Irish experiences, so fresh, and in parts so grotesque, wilder also by much in Connaught than in Lord Massey’s county of... ... for us both in their contrasts (at one time so picturesque, at another so grotesque), which illuminated our separate recollections. But my quick inst... ...er (diabolos), proceeds, through the intermediate Italian diavolo, our own grotesque vulgar- ism of the devil;* an idea which must ever be injurious,...

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...n of genius who has changed wives without the sanction of South Dakota; to grotesque hypocrisy, cruel persecution, and final utter confusion of conven...

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... The beginnings of the world and the events of yesterday were mingled with grotesque cheerfulness. A kitchen jack leaned against a pyx, a republican s... ...hs made by a ray of sun- light, the most bizarre forms flitted through it, grotesque struggles were seen athwart it. Groups of interlaced figures blen... ...waited with dignified calmness for Rastignac’s re- turn, his room seemed a grotesque interpretation of the sort of life I was about to enter upon. The... ...e, unearthly figure a few paces away among the crowd. He went towards this grotesque object to see it better, half-closing his eyes with exceeding sup... ... with the protuberant forehead and pointed chin, a face not un- like those grotesque wooden figures that German herdsmen carve in their spare moments.... ...zing about, the roots of trees like a sand-besprinkled shock of hair above grotesque faces in the flinty rock sur- face,—all these things made a harmo...

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...et who hoodwinks the father and brings about the happiness of the lovers a grotesque but perfectly tasteful Punchinello or Mascarille or Sganarelle. S...

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...ored Gordon Wright’s addresses to her daughter, and Captain Lovelock had a grotesque theory that she had set her heart upon seeing this young lady com... ..., he had asked leave to come and see her. This sudden gyration of mind was grotesque, and Bernard knew it; but, neverthe- less, he had an immense expe... ...morrow. But early on the morrow it occurred to him that it would be simply grotesque to go off without taking leave of Mrs. Vivian and her daugh- ter,...

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...hich seemed ready to drop off at any moment, lay an expanse of countenance grotesque and droll, as the faces which the Chinese alone of all people can... ...oney. If you had seen him that afternoon, you would have wondered how that grotesque face came to be lighted up with a smile; usu- ally, surely, it mu... ...Babylonish iniquity; he did not believe the stories, he smiled at them for grotesque inven- tions. The ingenious reader can see that Pons and Schmucke... ... complete success. Poulain repaired to the Ar- senal Library, looked out a grotesque case in some of Desplein’s records of extraordinary cures, and fi...

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...d at him with mocking amusement. Evidently she had hit on other absurd and grotesque aspects in her husband and was awaiting the moment to give ex- pr...

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...en they were about to leave, the Mer- cenaries plucked out their hair with grotesque contortions. But many, from foolishness or prejudice, innocently ... ...ngerous one they pressed forward to see him. On his head had been placed a grotesque tiara of hippopotamus leather incrusted with pebbles. It was Auta...

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...token of farewell; an impudent conductor slammed the door and the latch. A grotesque-looking lady wearing a bustle (Anna mentally undressed the woman,...

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...all these things mingled and massed together in a way that produced a most grotesque effect,—a true Parisian dusthole, in which were not lacking a few...

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...e States the poet is the equable man, Not in him but off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns, Nothing out of its plac... ...andest scenery in the world, I cross the Laramie plains, I note the rocks in grotesque shapes, the buttes, I see the plentiful larkspur and wild onion...

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...ks and birds. The big-headed babies were equally obliging in lending their grotesque aid to the general effect. ‘Y ou see, Mr V enus, I’ve lost no tim...

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...se of whole volumes of nonsense. There are but few persons, and those of a grotesque taste, who pre- tend to understand and to esteem this work; for, ...

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...eming not to bend them. I had never in my life come across such a strange, grotesque figure, and, whenever I had met him at Muller’s before, he had al...

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...e of them impressed by the off the record circumstance, the others by the grotesque-sinister atmosphere, was deeply affected by the sudden fall off, ... ..., anomalous. (In ″The Miracles of Saint Sisoie″, G. Topârceanu noticed the grotesque of an idyllic good, by describing the scene where a saint invit...

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...UBLICITY _________ 66 SLEEPING DURING THE NEW YEAR’S NIGHT ________________ 67 DILETTANTE _______ 67 PASSIONATE _______ 67 DICTATORSHIP _____ 67 GROTESQUE _______ 67 BUREAUCRATIZE ___ 67 ESTIMATION _______ 67 REJECTED _________ 67 CINDER ____________ 68 THE MOLE _________ 68 GLOVES ___________ 68 PRIMITIVISM _______ 68 THAUMAZEIN ______ 68 WINE ______________...