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  • A shriek came out of him, high and incongruous, and then he pressed his face against the floor and ground it along, crying louder as he advanced.†   (source)
  • She asked if he was breathing, and I asked Mom, and she said no, and the whole time this totally incongruous soul song was crooning tinnily through his earbuds.†   (source)
  • His gray-flecked temples seemed incongruous with his otherwise youthful appearance.†   (source)
  • It was incongruous, but it was I who felt out of place.†   (source)
  • Sophie's eyes locked on an incongruous glint of lustrous metal lodged near the bottom edge of the frame's wooden armature.†   (source)
  • He paused, pulled on his long black coat, which had hung in the front hall, incongruous beside Mr. Frost's tweed jacket and fawn mackintosh.†   (source)
  • It looked like an ice-cream vendor's pushcart, parked incongruously on the badlands.†   (source)
  • This was also incongruous because Owen came from a family in the granite business.†   (source)
  • Then, incongruously, I was hungry.†   (source)
  • "Our local time in Sin City is 11:47 a.m." Half-blind in the glare, plate glass and reflecting surfaces, I trailed after Dad and Xandra through the terminal, stunned by the chatter and flash of slot machines and by the music blaring loud and incongruous so early in the day.†   (source)
  • Her face reflects her pain, but something else, too, something that seems completely incongruous with her situation.†   (source)
  • The major wore rough farm clothes and carried, incongruously, a furled and bullet-torn umbrella.†   (source)
  • Now it stood revealed, an incongruous splash of green in all the eye-watering whiteness.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony spinship was incongruously streamlined with its four sets of boom arms retracted in battle readiness, its sixty-meter command probe sharp as a Clovis point, and its Hawking drive and fusion blisters set far back along the launch shaft like feathers on an arrow.†   (source)
  • The result is a sad jumble of shops, booths, and bazaars often unpleasing in themselves and incongruous when taken together.†   (source)
  • It's a black hat with black velvet ribbon and gold daisies, equally incongruous at the party and at the later visitation, although I'm less impressed by what it is than by whose it is.†   (source)
  • Around them the Circlers captured the performance on their screens, wanting to remember the very strangeness of this band of homeless-seeming revelers, to document how incongruous it was here at the Circle, amid the carefully considered paths and gardens, amid the people who worked there, who showered regularly, tried to stay at least reasonably fashionable, and who washed their clothes.†   (source)
  • Kochu Maria's fan was more or less hidden by the blue-and-white checked, frilled, absurdly incongruous housemaid's apron that Mammachi insisted she wear inside the house.†   (source)
  • She'd caught the hard line of his mouth, the incongruously vulnerable eyes.†   (source)
  • The sight of his figure pushing a trolley loaded with cleaning utensils, mops, brushes arranged incongruously, though always tidily, around teapots, cups and saucers, so that it at times resembled a street-hawker's barrow, became a familiar one around the house.†   (source)
  • Although he's always known that she's taken back every evening and locked into a narrow cell, today it strikes him as incongruous.†   (source)
  • Someone's phone is ringing, an incongruously joyful and upbeat song.†   (source)
  • Its chain-link-fenced and partly concrete-floored play area was at the back, facing a parched valley, on which the other low dwellings of that street also opened, some of them rising on stilts, as though jutting out to sea, an effect that was incongruous, given the dryness and lack of water all about.†   (source)
  • For a moment I was strolling again, finding childish comfort in its incongruous design.†   (source)
  • His face dropped again into its incongruous, austere melancholy.†   (source)
  • The mention of the Scholar girl is so incongruous to my thoughts that for a second I'm stunned silent, and Helene stiffens.†   (source)
  • When confronted by unhappy parents, Luma displayed a confidence incongruous with her status as a newcomer, an attitude that put off some parents and intrigued others.†   (source)
  • The machine sat in the driveway, as incongruous and odd as a steel-blue pig.†   (source)
  • The sight was so incongruous, several moments elapsed before Eragon realized that the dwarf was Orik.†   (source)
  • The girls incongruously break into spasms of laughter when pretending to be beaten by their husbands.†   (source)
  • The old motel seemed an incongruous backdrop for such glamour.†   (source)
  • Mortenson asked Apo for the pouch of CAI's rupees the old cook carried, incongruously, in a pink child's daypack and counted out twenty thousand rupees, about four hundred dollars, before handing them to Jahan's father for his daughter's tuition.†   (source)
  • The boy was resting on his elbow, his face cradled in his right palm; and his avid expression was incongruous with the redness of his eyes.†   (source)
  • The Mother Superior received her in her Spartan office, where there was an immense, bloody Christ on the wall and an incongruous spray of red roses on the table.†   (source)
  • There were strands of enlisted men molded in a curve around the three officers, as inflexible as lumps of wood, and four idle gravediggers in streaked fatigues lounging indifferently on spades near the shocking, incongruous heap of loose copperred earth.†   (source)
  • There, too, incongruous things came together: a steelworks construction site superimposed on a kerosene lamp; an old-fashioned lamp with a painted-glass shade shattered into tiny splinters and rising up over a desolate landscape of marshland.†   (source)
  • The bull's-eye atop the newer four-story part of Our Lady, with the blue flashing perimeter lights and the shiny helicopter that came and went, seemed incongruous for our setting.†   (source)
  • Aldous puts a giant paw on my shoulder, incongruously gentle.†   (source)
  • Her right hand lifted, the barest millimeter, and that small, incongruous gold tag flashed.†   (source)
  • Somewhere nearby an incongruous sound shook the dark, an air hammer pounding like a machine gun.†   (source)
  • The French, said Burke, sounding very like Adams, had "destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongruous mass of mob and democracy."†   (source)
  • To a secular mind like mine, it always seemed incongruous that Dryden should have chosen the Latin phrase "annus mirabilis" to describe that terrible year of 1666, marked by plague, the Great Fire, and the war with the Dutch.†   (source)
  • The temperature was cooler than it had been in the desert, but the incongruous moisture made it almost as uncomfortable.†   (source)
  • Celeste dangled from one hand, and I noticed incongruously that we had to send that bear through the wash but soon. that bear through the wash but soon.†   (source)
  • Hurrying up the road, they finally got their first glimpse of the guardstones—two gargantuan blocks of granite that were joined so tightly that the door appeared to be little more than an incongruous slab of reddish stone.†   (source)
  • It seemed startling in that office, incongruous with the sternness of the rest: it was a touch of sensuality.†   (source)
  • The masks and voices were hideous in the lovely light of a chandelier, incongruously placed in this bizarre room obviously not built for chandeliers.†   (source)
  • And it seemed incongruous, as well, how it was that I, the only child of a hide tanner and a rag maid, should come to wear a second lieutenant's uniform of the Ocean Sky Battalion of the Imperial Forces, and that she, born into a noble, scholarly house (if perhaps one fallen), would have to sleep in a surplus closet of a far-flung military outpost, her sister already dead and buried, wishing upon herself the same horrid end.†   (source)
  • The fact that Lonesome had a son seemed incongruous.†   (source)
  • It was so incongruous, the dainty table and the thought of Mrs. Poole sitting there, spreading her thin lips to apply that horrible shade of lipstick; there were so many pictures of Mr. Poole in the house it was like a shrine--saint with a rotten liver.†   (source)
  • The incongruous sight of casual Western businessmen carrying attache cases and tennis rackets unnerved Jason because of the stark contrast to the uniformed guards, standing about rigidly.†   (source)
  • Fifties and a bit chubby with an incongruous goatee.†   (source)
  • When they had to go into the open for any length of time, they wore dark glasses which gave them a somewhat incongruous appearance.†   (source)
  • The noise of splashing water and giggles drifted down through the flimsy ceiling, then there were padding footsteps, more giggles, the sharp smack of what sounded like a playful paw upon a bare bottom and finally, incongruously, the ravishing sweet heartbeat of the slow movement of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony from a phonograph.†   (source)
  • Or was it really that incongruous?†   (source)
  • Peter's incongruous, out-of-proportion sneeze had touched off one of his peoples' most highly developed traits: a sense of the ridiculous; a sense so keenly felt as to be almost beyond control.†   (source)
  • Finally he sprinkled flour on the meat, his fluttering fingers incongruous against his somber death's-head face.†   (source)
  • The airport reminded Leamas of the war: machines, half hidden in the fog, waiting patiently for their masters; the resonant voices and their echoes, the sudden shout and the incongruous clip of a girl's heels on a stone floor; the roar of an engine that might have been at your elbow.†   (source)
  • On the stone floors lay people in gray army coats who coughed, spat, shifted about, and spoke in voices that resounded incongruously loudly under the vaulted ceilings.†   (source)
  • She smiles at Tyrone with a strange, incongruous coquetry.†   (source)
  • It is time to put an end to so many evils; and I have made the motion to move the indefinite postponement of this unmanageable mass of incongruous bills, each an impediment to the other, that they may be taken up one by one to receive the decision which their respective merits require.†   (source)
  • I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.   (source)
  • I could just make out that he had a book as well as a knife in his hand, and was still wondering how anything so incongruous had come in their possession when...   (source)
    incongruous = lacking in compatibility or appropriateness
  • The emotions knotting his chest were so many, so incongruous.†   (source)
  • My mother will turn up on their doorsteps, wearing slacks, carrying a bouquet of weeds, incongruous.†   (source)
  • This seemed so odd, and incongruous, it almost made sense.†   (source)
  • The little black car with the incongruous light bar atop it purred to life.†   (source)
  • She glanced at him: the statement was so oddly perceptive and so incongruously irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Yet, incongruously, I didn't feel any better for myself.†   (source)
  • There was something incongruous, even faintly absurd, about what he was doing.†   (source)
  • There was something wrong: something incongruous.†   (source)
  • The only color in the room was her red hair, flaring across the snowy expanse of pillow like a bright, incongruous flag planted at the south pole.†   (source)
  • But then again, when I think about it, there's a sense in which that picture of us on that first day, huddled together in front of the farmhouse, isn't so incongruous after all.†   (source)
  • It looked incongruous, floating there in the water, so odd in its shape compared to the sleek, slippery design of fish.†   (source)
  • Where this stiff voice, and unnaturally stiff handwriting had come from — incongruous with the cloudbursts of memory and hallucination crashing in on me from all sides — I did not know.†   (source)
  • That's totally incongruous!" a female student in the front had blurted when Langdon explained the reason for east-facing tombs.†   (source)
  • Tally made her way toward the fight, and the incongruous smells of breakfast reached her through the choking haze of smoke.†   (source)
  • The decor in the colonnade was an incongruous mix of wall-to-wall carpets over marble floors and wireless security cameras gazing down from beside carved cherubs in the ceiling.†   (source)
  • I had been puzzled by how frequently the peace sign, or V for Victory, was flashed between them, in all sorts of incongruous contexts, and it might have gone on being a mystery for a lot longer if my dad hadn't just come out and asked Xandra for a Vicodin when he thought I wasn't listening.†   (source)
  • It was utterly incongruous.†   (source)
  • As for the mako, except for the tips of the tail and the mouth area, incongruously untouched, it was a half-eaten, butchered mess.†   (source)
  • We'd met outside the liquor store on Hudson when I was standing outside money in hand wanting someone to go in and buy me a bottle of something and there she came billowing around the corner, in batlike, futuristic garb incongruous with her clumping walk and farm-girl looks, her plain-but-pleasing face of a prairie wife of the 1900s.†   (source)
  • With her incongruously small legs and massive torso, she looked like a refrigerator on crooked wheels.†   (source)
  • That mouth now spoke, its voice a silky basso that was so incongruous and yet so strangely familiar that Max merely gaped.†   (source)
  • His alien slippers and rumpled bed-head seemed extremely incongruous given the gravity of the situation.†   (source)
  • There was something incongruous about one marriage ending the same day another began, as if there was an exchange program in the universe or something, a trade required in order to keep the numbers even.†   (source)
  • Tumbled among the ruins, like discarded matchsticks, were broken pillars made of shining pale stone, incongruously beautiful in this ruined land.†   (source)
  • As Pearce fought his way back to consciousness, the phone rang in a distant room in the house, a sound as incongruous and misplaced as the chandelier casting a delicate light on the masked figures surrounding the naked black boy strapped to the wooden chair.†   (source)
  • There were about fifteen other pack wolves with them, looking incongruous among the Disney princess dolls and stuffed reindeer.†   (source)
  • The measured, labored, evocative scrape of iron shovel against concrete made his flesh crawl with terror as he stepped from the curb to cross the ominous alley and hurried onward until the haunting, incongruous noise had been left behind.†   (source)
  • He was wearing an incongruous Scottish WWI military outfit including tartan trews because, as he said, if he was going down he was going down in the uniform of his regiment.†   (source)
  • …of the Philosophical Society included John Bartram, who west of town, on the banks of the Schuylkill River, had created the first botanical garden in America; Dr. Benjamin Rush, an enterprising young physician and champion of humanitarian reform; and David Rittenhouse, clockmaker, optician, instrument-maker and self-taught astronomer who, to study the transit of Venus in 1769, had erected an incongruous-looking observation platform that still stood on the grounds of the State House.†   (source)
  • Max blinked; it was such a strange image and triggered such a jarring, incongruous jumble of emotions.†   (source)
  • The sun surrounded her golden hair which was piled on top of her head and fell over her brow in girlish, somewhat too artless and incongruous curls.†   (source)
  • They were a motley group: the conservative frat guy types in tuxedos and their dates in fancy prom dresses, the new hippies in Indian paisleys, jeans and sneakers, and maybe for flare, an incongruous bow tie.†   (source)
  • It's a woman, a girl really, Middle Eastern of some kind: a long full skirt to above the ankles, printed cotton, Canadian gum-soled boots incongruous beneath; a short jacket buttoned up, a kerchief folded straight across the forehead with a pleat at either side, like a wimple.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a combat helmet, which looked incongruous with his fine sports clothes and Italian shoes.†   (source)
  • Soon, across a mile of pale hills, she glimpsed the building, built of red brick at the turn of the century, with two incongruous low-slung modern wings.†   (source)
  • Then she lowers her hand and her long fingers gesticulate and flutter in the air with incongruous grace as she recounts her odyssey.†   (source)
  • That night back in '31 when he went to collect her from the train station and found her waiting out front—her unevenly hemmed gray coat too skimpy for the Baltimore winter, her floppy, wide-brimmed felt hat so outdated that even Junior could tell—he'd had the incongruous thought that she was like mold on lumber.†   (source)
  • A Chagall—Clary's favorite, all soft roses and blues and greens, incongruous against the apartment's modernity.†   (source)
  • Neth had plump cheeks, but the rest of her was thin and fragile; thick makeup caked her face in a way that seemed incongruous, as if she were a child who had played with her mother's cosmetics.†   (source)
  • The way Vivaldo carries on, I'm likely to find out, whether I want to or not," and, incongruously, she giggled.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Whitshank was slight and frail-looking, but an incongruously deep, low bosom filled out the top of her gingham housedress.†   (source)
  • She asked, in a dead voice that had the incongruous sound of common sense, "I suppose you will now want us to get divorced?"†   (source)
  • It was her poise that irritated him most; she was no longer an incongruous little freak, dwarfed by the luxury of the residence which a famous artist had designed; she matched it.†   (source)
  • He still wore the rags of the clothes he must have put on for that long-ago dinner at the Fair Folk's refuge in Idris: the incongruous shreds of a suit jacket and tie.†   (source)
  • The skin was fair, with a strange silvery cast to it and, entirely incongruous, a scattering of golden freckles.†   (source)
  • When the green light of a signal appeared by the track, it gave them a point to reach and pass, but-incongruous in the midst of the floating dissolution-it brought them no sense of relief.†   (source)
  • She could not decipher the expression of the eyes, it seemed incongruous, it resembled the calm, not of a woman, but of a scholar, it had that peculiar, luminous quality which is the fearlessness of satisfied knowledge.†   (source)
  • "If everybody could pull for a common purpose, then nobody would have to be hurt!" he cried suddenly, in a tone of incongruous despair; he saw Taggart watching him and added, pleading, "I wish we didn't have to hurt anybody."†   (source)
  • Her leg, sculptured by the tight sheen of the stocking, its long line running straight, over an arched instep, to the tip of a foot in a high-heeled pump, had a feminine elegance that seemed out of place in the dusty train car and oddly incongruous with the rest of her.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him for an instant that he saw an incongruous look on the worn, cynical faces of the newsmen, a look that was not quite respect, expectation or hope, but more like an echo of these, like a faint reflection of the look they might have worn in their youth on hearing the name of Robert Stadler.†   (source)
  • But one's first, incongruous impression of plenty was countered immediately by an impression of waste.†   (source)
  • He was well dressed, incongruous here in the woods, but Taggert could not stop just now for puzzlement.†   (source)
  • It was something she had told him but he had forgotten because it seemed incongruous and not in the least important.†   (source)
  • And she did step a very short step closer, with her pencil poised incongruously over her pad, and repeated the formula: "…. don't serve Negroes here.†   (source)
  • For some reason my eyes fixed themselves on her tattoo; it seemed profoundly incongruous at this moment.†   (source)
  • The seemingly incongruous and arbitrary jumble of things and ideas in the work of the Symbolists (Blok, Verhaeren, Whitman) is not a stylistic caprice.†   (source)
  • They walked for a few metres past a beautiful model of Paris, past art-treasures from a dozen centuries grouped incongruously together, past modem calculating machines and paleolithic axes, past television receivers and Hero of Alexandra's steam-turbine.†   (source)
  • When Helen called, they sat down to a dinner table that, under the circumstances, seemed incongruous.†   (source)
  • This view contained some nondescript subjects—in the foreground a brown grassless drill field, a small wooden barracks, the electrified wires hemming in an incongruous stand of graceful poplars—but it also presented a glimpse of the railroad platform where the selections were made.†   (source)
  • Dour, bearded, hair unshorn or ludicrously cropped, they looked like ghost-town characters in a Western movie, except they were not so well fed as Hollywood extras, and their clothing, flowered sports shirts, shorts, or slacks, plaid or straw-peaked caps, was incongruous.†   (source)
  • He was not talking loudly but there was something mincingly savage in his throttled-back rage that seemed more threatening than if his voice had been a roar; it was a bleak, reedy, thin, almost bureaucratic rage and his choice of phrase—"whorish behavior"—sounded incongruously tight-assed and rabbinical.†   (source)
  • On a sultry October afternoon, trolling for bass in the channel, he had seen a pair of faultlessly curved and tapered legs incongruously stretched toward the sky from the McGovern dock.†   (source)
  • He saw Peyton and Ben Franklin come down the steps, Ben incongruously wearing an overcoat, Peyton carrying a bow, a quiver of arrows over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • Most of the parking spaces on Yulee and St. Johns incongruously were occupied, but the cars themselves were empty, and several had been stripped of wheels.†   (source)
  • But the year 1880 had begun a period of incongruous American building.†   (source)
  • How incongruous it seemed to be telephoning to a woman like that.†   (source)
  • It might be incongruous, but if it was for Man why shouldn't it be for me too?†   (source)
  • We walked up the drive to the front door, a strange incongruous little party.†   (source)
  • Her appearance is incongruous to this setting.†   (source)
  • But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice.†   (source)
  • He was in love with Stella—incongruously enough.†   (source)
  • She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.†   (source)
  • Then a strangely incongruous sight struck her eyes.†   (source)
  • For always, he thought, there was something incongruous to be worked into the harmony of her face.†   (source)
  • Save for the possibly relevant fact that not one of them had a child, four more incongruous characters could not have met together in a room—so much so that it is tempting to invent a meeting and a dialogue between them.†   (source)
  • For public and private reasons alike he was touchy about attempts to link him with the aristocrats because of his Whig affiliations, and once complained bitterly at being incongruously "put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction."†   (source)
  • Fanny's kind, rather moon-like face took on an incongruous expression of pained and disapproving astonishment.†   (source)
  • His mother came near, her face strangely sorrowful and brooding, incongruous somehow, dissociated completely from her task of carrying a platter of soup.†   (source)
  • It proves that there was more in her than simplicity; enthusiasm; romance; and thus makes sense of her two incongruous choices: Herbert and my father.†   (source)
  • Nothing that was odd there-incongruous?†   (source)
  • Quite incongruously, Keating felt as if a conveyor belt was under his feet, from the moment he crossed the threshold.†   (source)
  • In the years that followed that second christening, many changes had taken place in her that made the pet name incongruous.†   (source)
  • It would have been an even more incongruous possession than the glass paperweight, and impossible to carry home, unless it were taken out of its frame.†   (source)
  • His room was filled with a strange jumble of objects—a harmonium in a gothic case, an elephant's-foot waste-paper basket, a dome of wax fruit, two disproportionately large Sevres vases, framed drawings by Daumier—made all the more incongruous by the austere college furniture and the large luncheon table.†   (source)
  • The young woman pressed both hands to her left side, and on that peach-bright, doll-beautiful face of hers appeared a strangely incongruous expression of yearning distress.†   (source)
  • I used to stuff a bundle of letters into my bag and read them when I felt inclined, which was in circumstances so incongruous swinging in my hammock, under the net, by the light of a storm-lantern; drifting down river, amidships in the canoe, with the boys astern of me lazily keeping our nose out of the bank, with the dark water keeping pace with us, in the green shade, with the great trees towering above us and the monkeys screeching in the sunlight, high overhead among the flowers on…†   (source)
  • Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.†   (source)
  • …colour at lessons; old Mr Wolstenholme in his beehive chair; the spotted elm leaves on the lawn; the rooks cawing as they passed over the house in the early morning; the escallonia leaves showing their grey undersides: the arc in the air, like the pip of an orange, when the powder magazine at Hayle blew up; the boom of the buoy—these for some reason come uppermost at the moment in my mind thinking of St Ives—an incongruous miscellaneous catalogue, little corks that mark a sunken net.†   (source)
  • She had expected him to seem incongruous in her house; but it was the house that seemed incongruous around him.†   (source)
  • Mockingly she seemed to see her there at the end of the corridor of years saying, of all incongruous things, "Marry, marry!"†   (source)
  • The skyscrapers looked pink against the blue sky, an incongruous shade of porcelain on masses of stone.†   (source)
  • Dear, dear, Mrs. Ramsay said to herself, how did they produce this incongruous daughter? this tomboy Minta, with a hole in her stocking?†   (source)
  • Now again, moved as she was by some instinctive need of distance and blue, she looked at the bay beneath her, making hillocks of the blue bars of the waves, and stony fields of the purpler spaces, again she was roused as usual by something incongruous.†   (source)
  • He could not force on himself, though he was seeking it fiercely, any other impression of her face than the incongruous one of undisturbed purity.†   (source)
  • So she righted herself after the shock of the event, and quite unconsciously and incongruously, used the branches of the elm trees outside to help her to stabilise her position.†   (source)
  • Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject.†   (source)
  • He looked incongruous in the drawing room of her penthouse, his huge bulk perched on the edge of a delicate chair, a hunched gargoyle against the glowing spread of the city beyond a solid wall of glass.†   (source)
  • He had no feeling of height here, and the buildings seemed to lie under his toes, not a real city, but miniatures of famous landmarks, incongruously close and small; he felt he could bend and pick any one of them up in his hand.†   (source)
  • Beside these, incongruously, was a large number of musichall artistes.†   (source)
  • There was indeed something rather incongruous in Lucy's moral outburst over Mr. Eager.†   (source)
  • You only laugh when something is odd or incongruous, and then it almost seems to hurt you.†   (source)
  • He has induced us to bring him into the world; but he chose his parents very incongruously, I think.†   (source)
  • He could not have introduced a more incongruous proposition.†   (source)
  • As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas.†   (source)
  • The most incongruous ideas were in confusion in his head.†   (source)
  • There was one that especially struck her; it seemed so incongruous.†   (source)
  • Does it seem incongruous to you that a Middlemarch surgeon should dream of himself as a discoverer?†   (source)
  • Their accoutrements were horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in rags.†   (source)
  • If he tried, his pictures seemed incongruous and false.†   (source)
  • The prince grew pale as death; he gazed into Gania's eyes with a strange, wild, reproachful look; his lips trembled and vainly endeavoured to form some words; then his mouth twisted into an incongruous smile.†   (source)
  • The dresser, and the great walnut wardrobe which held all my clothes, even my hats and shoes, I had pushed out of the way, and I considered them non-existent, as children eliminate incongruous objects when they are playing house.†   (source)
  • Though I feel it to be a somewhat incongruous act in the circumstances, I am, as you will see, bound to hand over the articles to the woman to whom the use of them for her lifetime will now rightly belong, and they are therefore promptly sent.†   (source)
  • For a sensitive woman she had steady nerves, and could bear with the incongruous and the grotesque; and, besides, there was nothing excessive about her love-affair.†   (source)
  • It might have seemed to him a waste of pomp and ammunition to kill a bug with a battery of artillery, but there seemed nothing incongruous about the getting up such an expensive thunderstorm as this to knock the turf from under an insect like himself.†   (source)
  • Then the small, wiry, frog-like shape of the second rider, and the ease and grace of his seat in the saddle—things so strikingly incongruous—grew more and more familiar in Venters's sight.†   (source)
  • Was it that his eccentric unsentimental old sapience, primitive in its kind, saw or thought it saw something which, in contrast with the war-ship's environment, looked oddly incongruous in the Handsome Sailor?†   (source)
  • Books, letters, dressing-gown, slipped about on the impersonality of the horsehair like incongruous impertinences.†   (source)
  • This tower was one of a pair—square, incongruous, crenelated structures—that were distinguished, for some reason, though I could see little difference, as the new and the old.†   (source)
  • When Amory was by himself his thoughts zigzagged inevitably to the picture of that red mouth yawning incongruously in the white face, but with a determined effort he piled present excitement upon the memory of it and shut it coldly away from his mind.†   (source)
  • But although she was invisibly absent, at the same time she was also invisibly present in Hans Castorp's mind—as the genius and guardian angel of the place, whom he had known and possessed for one wicked, riotously sweet hour, an hour quite incongruous with some delicate little song from the flatlands, and whose interior silhouette he now bore next to a heart that had been sorely overtaxed for the last nine months.†   (source)
  • Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets, before and after.†   (source)
  • The big Mormon, on his knees, with his hands in a pan of dough, and his shirt all covered with flour, presented an incongruous figure of a man actuated by pathos and passion.†   (source)
  • The whole setting was wild, and for the first time, regarding this strange woman and realizing how incongruous she was in it, I was aware of how much a part of it I was myself.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Lily, that's nice of you," she merely sighed across the chaos of letters, bills and other domestic documents which gave an incongruously commercial touch to the slender elegance of her writing-table.†   (source)
  • Rosemary had a sharp feeling of disappointment—she looked quickly at Dick, as though to ask an explanation of this incongruous mingling.†   (source)
  • Beside the immensity of these emotions I considered that merely to raise my hat to him would be incongruous and petty, and might make him think that I regarded myself as bound to shew him no more than the commonest form of courtesy.†   (source)
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