extraordinary

• Among these the class of Mud-larks is not the least extraordinary, that is people who, on the ebb of the tide re-pair to the river-side, in quest of any article that the water may have left behind in the mud. —  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)
• A kind of dream--extraordinary: I don't remember having a grudge with anyone. —  The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
• But at that time Europe was not yet quite prepared for the extraordinary, almost incomprehensible, enterprise--the conquest of a country which hardly anybody had ever seen and in which nobody had any practical interest. —  The Evolution of Love
• An envoy-extraordinary, the Count of Wassenaer-Twickel, was sent to Paris, but found that the king was already with his army encamped between Lille and Tournay. —  History of Holland
• The real essence and singularity of the rising exists in its simplicity, and, saving for the courage which carried it out, the word extraordinary is misplaced in this context The tactics of the Volunteers as they began to emerge were reduced to the very skeleton of "strategy." —  The Insurrection in Dublin

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