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...man’s brow cast a black line of shadow on the upper part of the face. This grotesque effect, though natural, threw into relief by contrast the white f... ...ht of its sublime horror, while the least charm was its resemblance to the grotesques which artists amuse themselves by sketching on a corner of the l... ...erville read the words, “Fancy Goods.” The windows were all mismatched and grotesquely placed. The ground floor, which seemed to be the habitable part... ...o his traveling compan- ion, “look at that old fellow. Isn’t he like those grotesque carved figures we get from Germany? And it is alive, perhaps it i...

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...lackstone, and he began to study law. People would look wonderingly at the grotesque figure lying in the grass, “with his feet up a tree,” or sitting ...

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...es, a triad of old women, concerning whom an English wit has remarked this grotesque peculiar- ity in the popular creed of that day,—that although pot... ...ho but must weep if Atticus were he?” Why must we laugh? Because we find a grotesque assembly of noble and ignoble qualities. V ery well; but why then...

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...he wolves circled once around the three bodies of the men, who were now wearing grotesque death masks, and then moved silently off into the forest. ...

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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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... 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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...man in distress, but Bill’s head did not turn. The man watched him go, limping grotesquely and lurching forward with stammering gait up the slow slope... ...e slope to the crest of the hill over which his comrade had disappeared — more grotesque and comical by far than that limping, jerking comrade. But at... ...mbled like a sickly ape, arms loose hanging, stoop shouldered, narrow chested, grotesque and terrible. The Apostate 253 He passed by a small railroad... ...But they were men and women no longer. They were mon sters — in face and form grotesque caricatures of everything human. They were hideously maimed a... ...vage. And the two idiots, gibbering and mouthing strange noises, danced apart, grotesque, fantastic, travestying love as they themselves had been trav... ... cient and half putrid chunk of roast pig, could redeem in the slight est the grotesque hideousness of her. When he had eaten weakly for a space, he ... ...om the time she found him and poked his blue eyes open to recrudescence of her grotesque, female hideous ness, had continued his adorer. Woman she wa... ... of a tripod of three great forest trunks, themselves carved into grinning and grotesque adumbrations of man’s modern concepts of art and The Red One...

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...h rather thickset. Earrings in his brown ears, white teeth lighting up his grotesque brown face, intensely black hair clustering about his brown throa... ...emonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned down- ward, nothing ca... ...orchestra was empty, when the lights were out. And still, through all this grotesque revival of what he remembered as having once been prettily natura... ...itation of a surprised look and manner that appeared to be unintentionally grotesque. ‘Don’t do that. Never on seeing me, no matter when, no matter wh...

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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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...h rather thickset. Earrings in his brown ears, white teeth lighting up his grotesque brown face, intensely black hair clustering about his brown throa... ...emonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned down- ward, nothing ca... ...orchestra was empty, when the lights were out. And still, through all this grotesque revival of what he remembered as having once been prettily natura... ...itation of a surprised look and manner that appeared to be unintentionally grotesque. ‘Don’t do that. Never on seeing me, no matter when, no matter wh...

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...gh the whole course of his late and tedious breakfast. He was of a strange grotesque appearance, stiff and formal in his manner, and seldom said a wor... ...’s name was soon in- troduced. Johnson. ‘Garrick’s conversation is gay and grotesque. It is a dish of all sorts, but all good things. There is no soli...

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...g, it was the prototype from which most other modern computers evolved. A grotesque thirty-ton monster with 19,000 vacuum tubes instead of microchip...

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...more than power, cruelty. Other animals use power to get food or social status. Only we human animals include torture, gratuitous violence and grotes...

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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 ______________...

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...ell downstairs or was slack in learn- ing the Bible off by heart; and this grotesque safety-valve for voluptuousness, mischievous as it was in many wa... ...se commercial traditions. Consequently it tried to sanctify them too, with grotesque results. The slave-dealer having always asked more money for virg...

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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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...ncerted ghost as she actually was, a broken white flower tied round, almost grotesquely for his present sense, with a huge satin “bow” of the Boulevard... ...ng, in a degree, to one’s head, that, as a mere matter of exposure, almost grotesque in its flagrancy, his situation resembled some elaborate practical... ...f which the dignity depended all on one’s own handling. What was supremely grotesque in fact was the essential opposition of theories—as if a galantuo... ...ld like innocence, the state of our primitive parents before the Fall The grotesque theory, as he would have called it, was perhaps an odd one to res... ...hing clumsily fundamental; so that she called it names, the invidious, the grotesque attitude, holding it up to her own ridicule, reducing so far as s... ...le creature was out of the cage, was at large; and the question now almost grotesquely rose of whether she might n’t by some art, just where she was a... ... disguised solemnity, the prolonged futility of her search might have been grotesque to a more ironic eye; but Maggie’s provision of irony, which we h...

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...ny a niche was drifted full; many a statue wore a long white bonnet on its grotesque or sainted head. The gargoyles had been transformed into great fa...

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...ll there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, that conjunc- tion of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snug- ness, with passionate cont...