... He flung after those war-fevered enthusiasts a line of Horace—a poet for whose work he had early conceived an inordinate affection: ...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... As the population increases, the alligators will decrease, for their nests will be oftener found; the principal check on their inordinate multiplication seems to be man...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...He felt like another Columbus or Edison, at his own genius in devisingsuch a scheme; and he felt an inordinate pride in Chum for learning thesimple exploit so quickly...
Albert Payson Terhune 「His Dog」
...In several species, though not inall, the males' fore-legs are of inordinate length...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Roccoof the Ripetta, and in the forty martyrs of the Stigmata in Rome; buthis inordinate love of gain would not allow him to finish many works inthe same good style...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
... Holy doctors! you constantly tell us that man's nature is perverted; you tell us that the way of all flesh is corrupt; you tell us that nature gives us but inordinate inclinations...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
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