...The Captain of the Landsturm, sticking a preposterous cigar between his moustachios, was playing poker with his countrymen ranking next to him in dignity and riches... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... He was wondering if theMaori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he wasabout to unload upon him...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...Either supposition wouldhave seemed preposterous enough did he not have before him the evidenceof the creature's existence...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Terrible」
...How could Percy—a marked man if ever there was one—go from prison to prison to inquire about Jeanne? The very idea seemed preposterous...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...It was preposterous and impossible...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
... that in Jamaica all possible means had been used to keep up the stock by breeding; but how preposterous was this...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...This being settled, the ferrymen demanded equally preposterous payment for carrying across the caravan...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...There was a time when it would have been regarded as wildly preposterous and viciously immoral to deny property rights in human beings...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...Some have even fancied the fox was father to all the dogs that trot by theside of man; but this idea seems too preposterous to be maintained...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...He regarded it as a truism unworthy of notice; he evidently felt that a comparison between love and dollars was preposterous...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...?], estimated at the rather preposterous figure of 3,564,000individuals, crossed the Hayes River 20 miles above York Factory in lateMay, 1792...
Francis Harper 「The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin」
..."Nothing is preposterous nowadays, Nanette...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930」
...Great apes in the heart of NewYork City! It sounded silly, preposterous...
Arthur J. Burks 「The Mind Master」
...And now, more preposterous than all, eachatom has an attractive power for every other atom of the universe...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
... “Kill you,” returned Dawes, in a tone of surprise at so preposterous a question...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...He learns to look upon himself as anunappreciated Newton, and to see the bitterest malevolence in those whoventure to question his preposterous notions...
Richard A. Proctor 「Myths and Marvels of Astronomy」
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