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"Incongruously" Quotes from Famous Books

... sleepless hours of night. Gradually certain faces among them became familiar—certain personages grew into coherence, as embodiments of those few types of character which had struck me the most, and played an analogous part in every fresh fantasia. Sandy Mackaye's face figured incongruously enough as Leonidas, Brutus, a Pilgrim Father; and gradually, in spite of myself, and the fear with which I looked on the recurrence of that dream, Lillian's figure re-entered my fairy-land. I saved her from a hundred dangers; I followed her through ...

— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

... one or the other of two obstacles, or both of them, for whoever is trying to follow what we say. In the first place, we obscure our meaning. For example, we have; been speaking ironically and suddenly swerve into serious utterance; or we have been speaking seriously and then incongruously adopt an ironic tone. How are our listeners, our readers to take us? They are puzzled; they do not know. In the second place, we offend—perhaps in insidious, indefinable fashion—the esthetic proprieties; we violate the natural fitness of things. For example, we have been speaking ...

— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... now," said the voice with emphasis, to which was incongruously added a low laugh. "You came here ...

— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington

... their supper on one end of the big table, agreed briefly but made no other comment. When Mary had secured the living-room door and windows, she took the four bedrooms in turn, ending in the one whose incongruously masculine appointments had once aroused ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

Words linked to "Incongruously" : incongruous