absurdities

• I have no patience for her absurdities, and I won't mention her book by name. —  The Big Picture
• With that facility of accommodation to any absurdities which is proper to dreams, I did not think very much of the coincidence of two blank volumes having been substituted for two copies of the Scriptures in two different places, and therefore quietly reached down a copy of the Hebrew Bible, in which I could just manage to make out a chapter. —  The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
• Marta, will you never be serious Some day, mother," Marta went on, "when we find the right man, you hold him while I propose, and together we'll surely Mrs. Galland could not resist laughing, which was one way to stop further absurdities--absurdities concealing a nervous strain they happened to be this time--while Colonel Lanstron was a little flushed and ill at ease. —  The Last Shot
• "I have heard nothing but his talking for the last half-hour R. had none of the peculiar traits of the ordinary "British snob"; his absurdities were all his own, belonging to no particular nation or clime. —  The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life
• The native productions of which I speak, frequently abound in absurdities--absurdities which are often, too, provokingly mixed up with what is beautiful; but I strongly and absolutely deny that the prevailing or even the usual character of Irish poetry is that of comicality. —  The Purcell Papers — Volume 2

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