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...ts legitimate appeal to pathos is ever smothered in its pudding-bed of the grotesque. She was pained, and showed it, and was ashamed of herself for sh... ... I fear.’ ‘And Pempton and Priscy!’ ‘They are growing cooler!’ ‘With their grotesque objections to one another’s habits at table!’ ‘Can we ever hope t... ...chelor; therefore but a theorist. And his illustrations of his theory were grotesque; medita- tion on them extracted a corrosive acid to consume, in h... ...word; he was like steel on the grindstone for such a theme of our national grotesque- sublime. ‘That Demerara Supple-jack, Victor! Don’t listen to Sim...

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...aborer is very Attic; it consists in speaking out his mind and giving it a grotesque expression. We find the same thing in a drawing-room. Delicacy of... ... plastered. The mantel, also in walnut, surmounted by a mirror in the most grotesque frame, had no other ornament than two brass eggs standing on a ma... ...entury. Several charm the eye with those old projecting beams, carved with grotesque faces, which form the roof of a sort of shed, and recall the days... ...ty servant-girl. This portrait of the Queen of Soulanges may seem a little grotesque, but many specimens of the same kind could be found in the provin...

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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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...ighest mettle. As it would have been hard to count the dozens upon dozens of grotesque figures that were ever ready to commit all sorts of absurdities...

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...overnment, religion, military science. Is he not a living encyclopaedia, a grotesque Atlas; ceaselessly in motion, like Paris itself, and knowing not ...

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...holar contingent, youngsters of Lewisham’s class, raw, shabby, discordant, grotesquely ill-dressed and awe- stricken; one Lewisham noticed with a sail... ...the Medium, sitting so still be- side him, could be doing all these things—grotesquely un- meaning though they might be. After all…. The ghostly hand ... ...d plants beside the portmanteau of a fellow-pas- senger and it suggested a grotesque simile. His roots, his earthly possessions, were all downstairs i... ... trying to hear some movement, his head craning forward in the darkness. A grotesque idea came into his head that all that had hap- pened a very long ...

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...ngs, his low forehead,—all these personal details, which might have seemed grotesque in many men, were rendered terrible in him by two small eyes set ... ...ft a mark upon the floor; the lid was scorched and the sides gave way. The grotesque Scaevola, who had offered to the god of the Police and T error th...

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...e nature of revelations. Such was this Parsons affair. It began by seeming grotesque; it ended disconcertingly. The fabric of Mr. Polly’s daily life w... ...stared over the windowsill, he- roic, but just a trifle self-conscious and grotesque. “Lawks a mussy!” said the old lady. “Wonders and Won- ders! Why!...

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... as espaliers had now resumed their natural mode of growing, and exhibited grotesque forms, partaking of the origi- nal training which they had receiv... ...vil or his mates either.” “My good boy,” said T ressilian, who saw, from a grotesque sneer on Dickie’s face, that he was more likely to act upon his o... ...ves, alembics, crucibles, retorts, and other instru- ments of alchemy. The grotesque figure of the smith, and the ugly but whimsical features of the b... ...ressilian; “re- form thy dress as well as thou canst, and fling away these grotesque trappings; and, so thou wilt be secret and faithful, thou shalt f... ...hest description, and the most varied—some articles tasteful, some perhaps grotesque, in the invention and decoration, but all gorgeously magnificent,... ...eir bodies, being sheathed in flesh-coloured silk, on which were traced in grotesque lines representations of the heavenly bodies, and of animals and ...

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...filment dif- fered so widely that the effect was stunning; he could not decide whether it was most tragic or most grotesque. He felt much as a man mig... ... stocks to the Alpine altitude and splendour of an Earldom, seemed to him the last possibility in the line of the grotesque. He said to himself, “Now ...

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...” said Septimius. “Even so, her mother’s brother,” said the doctor, with a grotesque bow. “So, being on a visit, the first that the siege allowed me t... ... of his breast, tearing his body to pieces, and he died. [Make this legend grotesque, and express the weariness of the tribe at the intolerable contro...

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...s backward to one for- ward; while its trade with India poured into it the grotesque designs of China and the marvels of Japan. 6 The Alkahest And ye... ...ling, formed of many oval panels, in each of which Van Huysum had carved a grotesque mask, had been respected and allowed to keep the brown tones of t...

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...ed fingers, women who after much expenditure of labor and bad temper still grotesquely resemble their own flatulent lap-dogs? The an- cient stale ineq... ...mes she disappeared. Ten minutes after she gazed down from the stairs upon grotesquely ruddy Yankee heads above Orien- tal robes, and cried to them, “... ... exalted; her voice was strained; she stared not at the company but at the grotesques scrawled on the backs of wing-pieces by forgotten stage-hands. “... ...t midsummer month Carol was sensitive to Kennicott. She recalled a hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco, the evening w... ...s not well drawn; it was too finicking; the pillars in the background were grotesquely squat. But the frock had an original back, very low, with a cen...

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.... And in another second, he was singing softly to himself, and danc- ing a grotesque step-dance in front of her, his limbs and body shaking loose, his... ...ore, she rose and came gravely to Gudrun, offering her the paper. It was a grotesque little diagram of a grotesque little ani- mal, so wicked and so c... ...an wooden figures, the Aztec art, Mexican and Central American. He saw the grotesque, and a curious sort of me- chanical motion intoxicated him, a con... ...lf. Then suddenly, he elevated the battle gallantly in the air, a strange, grotesque figure leaning towards Gudrun, and said: ‘Gnadiges Fraulein,’ he ...

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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 ...

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...en tried by a woman! Dacier’s wretched tendency under vexation to conceive grotesque analogies, anti-poetic, not to say cockney similes, which had sli... ...tical creatures when they are so condescending; but they are seized by the grotesque. In spite of efforts to efface or supplant it, he saw the white c... ...was in the air as soon as uttered: and off to the printing-press! Dacier’s grotesque fancy under an- noyance pictured a stream of small printer’s devi...

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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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..., startlingly big, a huge, black hairy monster with a long white nose on a grotesque face, and he was stuffing armfuls of white blossom into his mouth... ...n of his mind sought to relieve itself 152 The Research Magnificent along grotesque irrelevant channels. There was, for example, the remarkable affai... ... was impossible that Prothero’s demands should seem anything more than the grotesque and squalid squealings of the beast that has to be overridden and...

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... in the carved material of the window-casings and the pillars, above which grotesque faces look down, while shapes of fantastic beasts climb up the an... ...a stone gallery, supported by what we must call brackets, each ending in a grotesque human head. This gallery has a balustrade of exquisite workmanshi... ...illion of flies, all buzzing in the Breton dialect!—in short, after a most grotesque residence in the Chateau du Guenic, where the windows are gates a...