1 So each week beheld some fresh absurdity.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 2 If, on reflection, I find I have fallen into no great absurdity, I shall try to forgive you; but it was not right.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 3 Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 41 4 The 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 SwiftGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER VI. 5 But at least, Mama, you cannot deny the absurdity of the accusation, though you may not think it intentionally ill-natured.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER 8 6 I think I committed every possible absurdity in the way of preparation for this blessed event.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL 7 "No," said Serpuhovskoy, frowning with vexation at being suspected of such an absurdity.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 3: Chapter 21 8 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 TolstoyGet Context In PART 4: Chapter 16 9 It struck me as being a remarkable mixture of shrewdness and of absurdity.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 10 Sir Geoffrey would have none of the absurdity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 11 Now she saw the screaming absurdity of her dreams.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 13 12 A scheme, worthy of Mrs Wallis's understanding, by all accounts; but my sensible nurse Rooke sees the absurdity of it.
13 But, Pavel Petrovitch, you must admit our combat is singular to the point of absurdity.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER XXIV 14 He 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 DostoevskyGet Context In PART 1: VIII 15 The 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 TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 17: CHAPTER I