As for Edward-a little like other men of his temperament, to whom, it is somewhat humiliating to think, the aberrancy of a given love is in itself a recommendation-his sentiment, as he looked over his cousin's book, was of a lower rank, Horatian rather than Psalmodic- 'O, what hast thou of her, of her Whose every look did love inspire; Whose every breathing fanned my fire, And stole me from myself away!
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy
Never was greater aberrancy- Coarsely I say to you, "Nix!"
"Tobogganing On Parnassus"
Franklin P. Adams
Even to the naturalist it is annoying to have his deductions disturbed by some unforeseen aberrancy of form or function; and how much more so to the wife whose estimate of herself is inevitably bound up with her judgment of her husband!
"The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10)"
Edith Wharton