Wherefore, they, looking upon what the captains did to be, as they called it, a fruit of the Extravagancy of their wild and foolish fancies, rather despised them than feared them.
"Bunyan"
James Anthony Froude
A more curious Extravagancy was uttered to me by a professor of applied mathematics.
"From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life"
Captain A. T. Mahan