Crossword-Solution: LUSUS 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The years slip away fugacious, and Time that brings forth her children only to devour them grins most hellishly, for Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony,--and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? You wouldn't have me put on exhibition as a _lusus naturae_?" "Oh, but I wish you had not altered so entirely!" Pauline sighed.

Appalled by the secret menace to human life that she had been scared to think of the ease and the safety in which she had been allowed over twenty odd years to carry agonizing death to so many of her kind, and convinced from the inhuman nature of her practices that she was a lusus naturae, her judges, following sentimental Anglo-Saxon example, might have given her asylum and let her live for years at public expense.

All men, the monster and the lusus naturae excepted, have a certain form, a certain complement of limbs, a certain internal structure, and organs of sense--may we not add further, certain powers of intellect? Hence it seems to follow, that man is more like and more equal to man, deformities of body and abortions of intellect excepted, than the disdainful and fastidious censors of our common nature are willing to admit.

CLASS IX.--Of "Lusus naturae" none is more curious than that of duplication of the lower extremities.

Drury, who is accredited with reporting the following-- "'So wondrous a thing, such a lusus naturae, such a scorn and spite of nature I have never seen.