...For I remembered what a preposterous bluff it all had been, and what apiteous broken handful stood between the Germans and their goal... 
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...I have atheory, but it is utterly preposterous...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...It was preposterous and impossible...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
... He had none of thesquat and preposterous negro lineaments, but a hawk nose like an Arab,dark flashing eyes, and a cruel and resolute mouth...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...Poor Bombay was hoarse, but Asmani still smiled; and I relented, congratulating myself that the preposterous demand, which was simply robbery, was no worse...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...This being settled, the ferrymen demanded equally preposterous payment for carrying across the caravan...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...It would be preposterous to publish descriptions of any European country from information gathered ten years ago...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
... denounced "the most preposterous and cruel practice of Slavery...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...Lad only waggedhis plumy tail the more ecstatically and snuggledcloser to the preposterous baby...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...In these preposterous and unseemly tasks no care istaken to continue the mental development on lines which have beenestablished by long use...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
...?], 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」
...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」
...And now, more preposterous than all, eachatom has an attractive power for every other atom of the universe...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
...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」
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