The precocious child is abnormal, and inspires in his fellow men that blind instinct to worry and torment which runs all through the animal world.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Because I had gone away quietly and remained in seclusion, the newspapers had inflamed the public with an abnormal curiosity in my so-called mysterious disappearance.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
And yet this warm love of an old woman for youth and beauty was a very natural one-a late development of the maternal instinct leading her even to what seemed an abnormal preference.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr