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It paid to do that sort of thing, provided that it was done with a gaiety that made it appear genuine and spontaneous: if your appreciation came bubbling out of you, no one suspected you of design, and she seemed the most designless, delicious girl in London, for it is next to impossible to see through an object that dazzles you.

After saying that lightning is designless and self-created, he says, a few lines further on, that it is the Deity who bids ‘the thunder rattle from the skiey deep.’

Ugly, designless creatures caused him to cease to look for deity in nature, where all happens by chance.

The coils and turns upon this leaf, like many other markings of nature, form a designless design, the idea of which is not traceable back to a mind.

He proceeds with his argument thus: "And dare men dream that dismal Chance has framed All that the eye perceives, or tongue has named The spacious world, and all its wonders, born Designless, self-created, and forlorn; Like to the flashing bubbles on a stream, Fire from the cloud, or phantom in a dream?"

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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