abnormity

• “The term. and dragging this huge metal abnormity through their costly fine fabric!”

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• “It is against all logic that medieval people bought extremely costly materials like gold thread and fine silk to weave enormously fine fabrics and embroider them all over with beautiful, awe-inspiring motifs using a huge, bulky needle bodkin only, dragging this huge metal abnormity through their costly fine fabric!”

  Gory Needle Details

• “The reason for it is this: that fair hair and blue eyes are a deviation from the type and almost constitute an abnormity, analogous to white mice, or at any rate white horses.”

  Essays of Schopenhauer

• “Dr. Langenbeck mentions a family of Silesian peasants who seemed to have an hereditary predisposition to the abnormity known as microcephalism, or small-headedness.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885

• “He was sure that even the crimes that were due to abnormity would cease of themselves when there were no longer hidden reminders of misery in the community.”

  Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04

• “I'm an animated dollar mark, a financial abnormity, with just about as much chance of being loved for myself alone as a fox in November.”

  Madcap

• “And this one -- Hermia Challoner, an enthusiast without a mission -- a feminine abnormity, half child, half oracle, wholly irresponsible and yet, by the same token, wholly and delightfully human!”

  Madcap

• “And just therein lay the secret of her attraction -- in this imprint of vice, of depravity, of abnormity in her appearance, her attitudes and her words.”

  The Child of Pleasure

• “There is no diabolism about him; for barbaric races, while believing in the existence of hurtful and malicious fiends, have not a sufficiently vivid sense of moral abnormity to form the conception of diabolism.”

  Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology

• “There are obvious reasons for doubting whether the existence of mythology can be due to any "disease," abnormity, or hypertrophy of metaphor in language; and the criticism at once arises, that with the myth-makers it was not so much the character of the expression which originated the thought, as it was the thought which gave character to the expression.”

  Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology

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