"What is this preposterous tale of your going to Boston!"

But the wonder of the moment threatened to dissipate as Iliana Ghemor began to tell them what was, in Sloan's estimation, a preposterous tale.

After knowing you for these last months," said Shannow, "I cannot understand why you hold to your preposterous tales.

Marise, the widow next door and the subject of gossip in the village, ultimately reveals her own preposterous tale of woe.

Of course, no one had believed old Hahgohn's preposterous tales . . . not at first.

After all, even England's footballers would have struggled to confect such a preposterous tale of bar-room excess.

I don't see that there is any comparison between a true story of adventure and the preposterous tales which you invent about ibex hanging by their horns.

If blind Homer had sung such a preposterous tale, people would have gotten up and left the tavern.

I'm getting used to your preposterous tales, Miss MacLeod.

Well, it's a preposterous tale, but the natives seem to believe it.