1 The human beings could not contain their rage when they heard this song, though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous.
2 I acknowledge to this ridiculous idiosyncrasy, as a reason why I would give them a little more play.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X 3 It would make a man so ridiculous, after going in for these fellows, to back out in such an incomprehensible way.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I 4 I must not only regard myself as being in a very ridiculous position, but as being vanquished at all points.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I 5 Fathers were ridiculous: his own obstinate one supremely so.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 6 And governments were ridiculous: our own wait-and-see sort especially so.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 7 And armies were ridiculous, and old buffers of generals altogether, the red-faced Kitchener supremely.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 8 Even the war was ridiculous, though it did kill rather a lot of people.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 9 In fact everything was a little ridiculous, or very ridiculous: certainly everything connected with authority, whether it were in the army or the government or the universities, was ridiculous to a degree.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 10 And as far as the governing class made any pretensions to govern, they were ridiculous too.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 11 Everything was ridiculous, quite true.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 12 But when it came too close and oneself became ridiculous too.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 13 To him the authorities were ridiculous ab ovo, not because of toffee or Tommies.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 14 And the authorities felt ridiculous, and behaved in a rather ridiculous fashion, and it was all a mad hatter's tea-party for a while.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 1 15 And yet he knew that this too, in the eyes of the vast seething world, was ridiculous.
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