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1What meaneth this old dotard, surd and absurd, thus to control our actions?
2Do you mean to say that you are not able to tell me what a surd is?
3The problems have a surd or irrational element in them; and to solve them would be to bring reason into collision with itself.
4We will take them a journey which shall much astonish the venerable Surd.
5I was stupefied by surds; and I entered the university.
6For Furnace Second were no invitations to Professor Surd's house.
7In front of me stood Professor Surd himself, looking down with a not unpleasant smile.
8And, therefore, it came that Furnace Second was reduced to zero in Professor Surd's estimation.
9Around me were the walls of Professor Surd's study.
10Professor Surd was at a faculty meeting.
11Under me was a hard, unyielding plane which I knew too well was Professor Surd's study floor.
12At length Professor Surd came in.
13These 'surds' of metaphysics ought to occasion no more difficulty in speculation than a perpetually recurring fraction in arithmetic.
15Professor Surd had a daughter.
16Abscissa Surd was as perfectly symmetrical as Giotto's circle, and as pure, withal, as the mathematics her father taught.