...There was something preposterous inthe air...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905」
...Instead of preserving the deer of the South,the South reaches out for the utterly impossible antelopes ofAfrica, and the preposterous hippopotamus...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The very ideaseems preposterous, for one cannot but associate thecharms of a "find" with the horrors of "going toground" in an omnibus, or the fox being headed by agreat Dr...
Robert Smith Surtees 「Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities」
...I hope that after this explicit disclaimer Ishall no longer be taxed with embracing a system of mythology whichI look upon not merely as false but as preposterous and absurd...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
..., animal carvings)deserve to rank by the side of the best efforts of the artistnaturalists in our own day—a statement which is simply preposterous...
Henry W. Henshaw 「Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley」
...The rule that tastes cannot be disputed isnow the only rule that prevails, and, behind this rule, the basest,meanest and most preposterous individual claims are able to make theirinfluence felt...
Anthony M. Ludovici 「Nietzsche and Art」
... Would you believe it? The king and the whole Round Table were in raptures over this preposterous opportunity for adventure...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
...Contemporaryscience, especially astrophysics, renders the whole set of assumptionsunderlying the anthropomorphic and geocentric supernaturalism of thepast absolutely archaic and preposterous...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
... “Kill you,” returned Dawes, in a tone of surprise at so preposterous a question...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
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