... 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」
... He would laugh at this preposterous story; of thatshe was sure...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...I have atheory, but it is utterly preposterous...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
... 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」
...Macphersoncharged me for that sham antiquity a preposterous price, atwhich one ought to procure a real ancestral mansion...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...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」
...The views and objects of English legislators as to the general subjectof dress, however preposterous in our eyes, were grave and seriousenough...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906」
...I should have liked to rouse them for a minute, to coax them into a game or a scamper; but the longer I looked into their fixed and weary eyes the more preposterous the idea became...
Edith Wharton 「Kerfol」
...?], 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」
...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」
...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」
...Another thing: the novelette "Beyond the Vanishing Point,"by Ray Cummings, is preposterous...
Various 「Astounding Stories, May, 1931」
...Itsounds preposterous...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930」
..."Nothing is preposterous nowadays, Nanette...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930」
...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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