1 But while she said it, Pearl laughed, and began to dance up and down with the humoursome gesticulation of a little imp, whose next freak might be to fly up the chimney.
2 Denying himself this freak, as unworthy of his cloth, he met a drunken seaman, one of the ship's crew from the Spanish Main.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE 3 Let him suppose it a mere freak, but a secret one, until the morning comes: then let him know that there is urgent reason for your getting Provis aboard and away.
4 Except in the case of a few freak diseases that no respectable human being would waste his time having, it's the old doc that keeps a community well, mind and body.
5 She decided that sometime she really must go out of her way to pass Hicks's shop and see this freak.
6 I'm damned if I'll agree to all your freak notions, but I will say I've got to depend on you.
7 But a freak of fate made the impossible possible.
8 She had decided to receive them, but feared lest the prince might at any moment indulge in some freak, as he seemed much upset by the Rostovs' visit.
9 They began to get anxious, and Laurie went off to find her, for no one knew what freak Jo might take into her head.
10 It would be instantly set down as the passing freak of a girl whose ways were already considered singular.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 11 His name was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study of the Middle Ages.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 12 You know, one does have such freaks sometimes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET 13 One does have freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER 14 I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 60. The Telegraph. 15 unaccountable freaks which nature sometimes plays in the.