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Far from the Madding Crowd
- "The question was perfectly fair," he returned—and there was something incongruous in the serious earnestness with which he applied himself to an argument on a valentine.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- The announcement had had an abnormal and incongruous sound, as if one should hear of croquet-playing in a cathedral aisle, or that some much-respected judge was going upon the stage.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(incongruous) out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness