bizarreries

But the chief merit of the Magazine lies in its miscellaneous articles; and the best of these come under the head of what Dr. Moneypenny calls the bizarreries (whatever that may mean) and what every body else calls the intensities.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840

But the chief merit of the Magazine lies in its miscellaneous articles; and the best of these come under the head of what Dr. Moneypenny calls the bizarreries (whatever that may mean) and what everybody else calls the intensities.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

As for Smith and Peake, between them they cornered the market in Gothic bizarreries, which happened to perfectly suit the kinds of stories they wanted to tell.

Quakers in Spain superversive 2006

But to outsiders, these bizarreries often bring puzzling looks.

Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

His old English life, its bizarreries, its evils, now seemed very remote, even irrelevant, like his truncated stage-name.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Comparative anatomy, which alone can furnish these interpretations, will therefore prove to be no alien to the practical, while it may lend explanation to those bizarreries which impede the way of the anthropotomist.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

Il avait de la religion et de la science, mais non sans bizarreries ....

Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

So are, perhaps, the picaresques of Murillo, the pictorial satires of Hogarth, the bizarreries of Goya ...

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

The dull, venomous cobra in his spotted cowl; clammy, strangling folds of long pythons; twenty-foot sharks with horrid semi-circular hedges of teeth – the wolves of these pearl-sown seas – and endless stinging, biting, poisoning creatures wrought into wanton bizarreries by nature in some mood of cynical humorousness.

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

But I have little to laugh at but myself, and my own bizarreries are more like to make me cry.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801