Ludicrity

Pomp and pageantry have too much of the puppet ſhew to excite any ſentiments in the human breaſt, but thoſe of aſtoniſhment, ridicule, and ludicrity.

Strangers were approaching at the report, and Archer was persuaded to fly, but this he sternly refused, and they proceeded to examine the wounded man, who ferociously persisted that he was dying, and if loss of blood was any indication, he certainly was dying: but even in those moments their gravity almost forsook them, when they saw ludicrity degrading the principles of manhood, and bombast and honor, like a bubble in the air, vanishing before their eyes.

With Rochefoucault he held that “Flattery was a sort of base coin to which our vanity gave currency;” and he battered to shapeless ludicrity every piece that came in his way, and with a gusto, delightful in its originality and truthfulness.

A little examination of the glaring absurdity of this defence, the ludicrity of which, by the way, never appeared to suggest itself to the Bench, shows, that supposing the rainfall was even one-tenth of an inch per hour, the amount that could possibly get into the can in twenty-five minutes, if the lid were entirely open, would be less than 0·05 inch of water.

However, she refrained from smiling, to save her husband, in these new poses of domestic virtue and lofty resolution, from tumbling into ludicrity and hurting himself with the fall.

And she was appalled at the absurdity, the ludicrity of the ideals she had builded or the tenets she had held in her previous existence.

All the ludicrity to which the Y. M. C. A. is subject, if you leave out the evangelists, may be laid at their door.

The ludicrity of the “cigarette smugglers” who were arrested seeking to avoid New York’s cigarette tax touched that part of the public’s funny bone that makes the difference between the American public and a totalitarian public.