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And the two idiots, gibbering and mouthing strange noises, danced apart, grotesque, fantastic, travestying love as they themselves had been travestied by life.
Koolau the Leper 2010
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They call themselves doctors, travestying what was once a noble profession, but in reality they are medicine-men, devil-devil men, and they make for superstition and darkness.
Page 3 2010
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The sight of him, so sitting, tragically travestying man, has been considered, and is considered, "educative" by multitudinous audiences.
CHAPTER XXXIII 2010
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Peyrade had the power of travestying everything, even his wit.
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Yet I labour day by day travestying it, caricaturing the beautiful thoughts that come into my mind.
Red Pottage 2004
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Zola borrowed more, but mainly the unwholesome parts, truncating these further to suit his theory of the novel as a slice of life seen through a temperament, and travestying in the Rougon-Macquart scheme, with its burden of heredity and physiological blemish, Balzac's cumbrous and plausible doctrine of the _Comedy_.
Balzac Frederick Lawton
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His sons and he then form a group, the sausage-snake is twined about them, -- only the old story is reversed, and he bites the serpent instead of the serpent biting him, -- and all die in agony, travestying the ancient group.
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That we are justified in thus partially travestying the technical methods of some of our modern scientists, so called -- especially those of the materialistic school -- those advocating a purely physical theory of life, we need only quote a sentence or two from
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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The sight of him, so sitting, tragically travestying man, has been considered, and is considered, "educative" by multitudinous audiences.
Chapter 33 1917
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It is an odd thing that people will facilely assent to Don Adriano's protestation against a certain travestying of Hector, -- "Sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the dead, for when he breathed he was a man," -- even while through the instant the tide of romance will be setting quite otherwhither, with their condonation.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918
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