This is a new and peculiar argument against keeping our army down to a ridiculous figure in the matter of numbers.
No wonder leprechauns were such ridiculous figures in human folklore.
During the years of Baldwin's premierships she appeared a slightly ridiculous figure to the sophisticated young.
To many of the young at the time, he seemed a ridiculous figure left over from the Edwardian age.
This ridiculous figure was none other than myself.
Don't you wonder, sir, how it can be offered at so ridiculous a figure?
Foley, crude and emotional, seemed to him a ridiculous figure.
But if it were to be noised about that a storm had driven him away, then he would cut a ridiculous figure in history.
At least, in her eyes Jasper Dale was never a ridiculous figure.
He shook his head, unable to look away from the ridiculous figures.