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Then relations arrived, and there began that state of blissful absurdity from which Levin did not emerge till the day after his wedding.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo Tolstoy
ContextThe strangeness and absurdity of these replies arise from the fact that modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one has asked.
War and Peace(V6) By Leo Tolstoy
ContextThat, perhaps, in short, this Prerogative Office of the diocese of Canterbury was altogether such a pestilent job, and such a pernicious absurdity, that but for its being squeezed away in a corner of St.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextThat, thought Scarlett, was the height of absurdity, for there was little, now, which even the most cloistered women had not seen and known in the last five years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextThe learned among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextAfter being known to oppose the scheme from the beginning, there is absurdity in the face of my joining them now, when they are exceeding their first plan in every respect; but I can think of no other alternative.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHe would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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