The sense of the girl's grave plight effaced all thought of his own risk, but the Count's last words struck him as so preposterous that he could not repress a smile.
This possibility seemed too preposterousto be admitted.
The General has a preposterous theory about the existence and hostility of a vast number of mythical Arabs in our immediate neighbourhood.
Such a thing would be preposterous in the kitchen, but it is exactly what takes place in parliament, and there is but one remedy for it.
The story of the pretended Gil Martin, preposterous as it is, is told by the unlucky maniac exactly in the manner in which a man deluded, but with occasional suspicions of his delusion, would tell it.
The passage of utter scorn and indignation at the preposterous statement of the chief personage in the dialogues, that after an exceptionally hard day's walking and fishing "half a pint of claret per man is enough," is sublime.
Yet Professor Shaler calls him a preposterous scoundrel, as was Falstaff; but I can't find serious dishonesty in Phinuit.
The night of Sunday beheld the withdrawal of Mr. Rickman into the immensity of his preposterous dream.
The social difference was as much her protection as some preposterous incompatibility of age.
She began to perceive the secret of his extravagant and preposterous charm.
Eight years ago it had seemed to him the fantastic child of a preference for common honesty, coupled with a preposterous passion for Lucia Harden.
Hitherto he had determined that she should not know it yet; not know it till death had removed from her his embarrassing, preposterous personality.
And why Maddox should have taken that preposterous tone-- Maddox explained himself as they left Sussex Square.
For one moment he thought that she had discovered hispreposterous passion, and reproached herself for being a cause of pain.
Say that it is; tell me that your heart is my own" (and the request seemed to her too preposterous to admit even of comment).
Putting these two items together--the sugar and the molasses drawbacks--and some millions must be plundered from the Treasury under the preposterous provisions of this compromise act.
Nothing, in his opinion, was so preposterous as to expect, by a high duty on these articles, to increase the revenue.
Giving to this imputed design, for the sake of the argument, all the credit due to an uncontradicted scheme, and still it is a preposterous excuse for not obtaining the previous consent of Mexico.
He could, therefore, speak with some knowledge on the subject; and he hesitated not to say, that the idea of keeping up this squadron for its protection was a most preposterous and idle one.
Preposterous as these fourteen reasons were, they were conclusive with the commander, who forthwith acted upon them, and made the arrest of Spencer.
The term bankrupt, then, in the civil law from which the English borrowed it, not only applied to bankers, but was confined to them; and it is preposterous in us to limit ourselves to an English definition of a civil law term.
To take an example, though a ratherpreposterous one.
Amory and Cosimo heard every word of that preposterous Service from the front pew.
At this cool taking for granted of a preposterous thing Cosimo's stammer became a splutter.
It would bepreposterous to infer that in the localities first mentioned the peasants were one and all descended from slaves, and that in those other localities they were one and all personally free.
It would be preposterous to construe it as an indication of work to be imposed at pleasure.
It seems preposterousthat a maker of a universe should care about the crop of a pigeon solely to please man's silly fancies.
No more preposterous theory has ever been put forward than that of the artist revealing himself in his art.
It was then, one golden summer day, among the flowering woods of Richmond, that I invented a new art, the art of preposterous conversation.
I have brought the art of preposterous conversation to the pitch of perfection; but I have been greatly handicapped in my efforts by the egregious wisdom of a world that insists upon taking me seriously.
Sheard agreed that it was the most preposterous sort of thing imaginable; and, leaving his excited acquaintance, he set out to seek further particulars.
Their insidious attempts are no doubt a graver evil than the preposterous pretensions of Rome, to which indeed they gave their only chance of success.
And then, as most men do in similar circumstances, he decided that the test was a preposterous one.
At the sight of her my nocturnal eloquence became preposterous and all the moral values altered altogether.
I wanted to do preposterous things, to pursue her, to save her, to turn life back so that she might begin again.
Nevertheless, Jane might almost have been gifted with clairvoyance, her preposterous idea came so close to the actual fact, for at that very moment William was barking.
Was it not preposterous that there should be other books to be prepared, other matters to be thought of, while this great work of art was being born?
To-day, when the world is swamped with the childish print in colour and the preposterous big copper plate, it may be well to remember Whistler's words.
Yet the notion of inviting business talent into this field would be as preposterous as that of asking it to devote itself to the essay.
I should be ashamed to say what literary triumphs I achieved in those preposterous deliriums.
This was a most preposterous method; but the eagerness of my fancy prevailed, and to work I went.
In heaven's name, what can have put such a preposterous notion into your head?
I can't imagine what has put such a preposterous idea into your head, or why it is that you shrink from improving your own chances with Mrs. Branston.
