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A small queue of incongruous people had formed to the right of the entrance
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In fact she wore a long leather coat, a little incongruous for the summer day outside
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‘It was just … just you saying that … it was so incongruous
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Over in the direction of the winding construction that would bring even more tourists up the mountain, incongruous dumper trucks and excavators rumbled about in clouds of silent swirling dust, chomping a way through the mountain bringing the future to the past and showing little respect, if any, for the feast
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‘Good afternoon, Dave – how are things with you?’ came the warm Jamaican voice with its incongruous tinge of an East End accent
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The man had instantly appeared right in front of him, looking incongruous in a white suit jacket
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The sky was still an incongruous mixture of sunlight and dark, but now these areas were alternating, like dancing spotlights
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The corridors were lined with pale wallpaper, sporting an incongruous flower design that wound its way gracefully up the stairs with them as they walked
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he hesitated, it seemed so incongruous with that stiff figure on the
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It attempts to mask its inevitability by hiding behind youthful façades that make it appear incongruous beside younger styles and fashions
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The incongruous thought went through my head
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Her acceptance of teasing from male crew members seemed incongruous alongside her cold, swift skills in handling the boat in rough seas
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The other soldier seemed taken aback by the incongruous humor and shuffled himself on the sack uneasily, responding with childlike bitterness:
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Jade and Argyl continued speaking with her in words that seemed incongruous with what words the woman spoke to me
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This has led many times to the incongruous scene of herbivores slowly grazing across a meadow totally unaware of a predator lying quietly in wait, unseen in tall grass, downwind of his intended victims
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It was an incongruous reaction; one of elation interweaved with dismay
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so incongruous for such a place so far out in the Asian
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Rick frowned but did not say anything because something incongruous had stood out in the confusion of the last minute
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so that on Halloween we think that there is nothing incongruous
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They looked incongruous in suits and carrying briefcases
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" This seemed incongruous to him, but I made
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The mute beggar crouched in the courtyard, and there was none to see that the hands which held the severed head were quivering strongly—brown, sinewy hands, strangely incongruous with the bent body and filthy tatters
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The latter were incongruous, in view of her present environs
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gallantry and there was something incongruous in the idea of a disheveled seventy-year-old infatuated, lovesick woman
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There was something about this man which made his clerkly occupation seem incongruous
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I saw nothing odd or incongruous about having such a store in
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It seemed incongruous to Bill that the clergyman had
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The thought was incongruous
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Buddy and Daisy both had immense collections which seemed somewhat incongruous for a small P I ship to devote that much data storage to music and dramatics
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Menace drifted through the air, incongruous with the beautiful fourteen-year-old sitting on the sunny yellow comforter
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Thusly refocused, and with my sincere promise to pay closer attention to my own behavior, for days on end Bonnie returned to pointing out my simple verbal slips and incongruous acts of neglect, such as me saying “uh huh,” or leaving my lemonade glass on the kitchen counter next to the sink, not in it
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He was so incongruous in the garret surroundings that all my fond
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Frois couldn’t help glance at the Portuguese sword belt she wore, which made her look even more incongruous
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Holding the device toward him, she said, "His gradient for unexpected, incongruous actions
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We sat at firesides and gathered blankets about our shoulders, fending off the incongruous summer cold filling every corner of our little part of the world
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The incongruous presence of Hillary and
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ground floor when an inquisitive nurse could not help but notice the incongruous
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Carolyn also was being pulled forward quickly towards the odd, incongruous
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The incongruous clothing
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It was just as incongruous as seeing the
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That Tony had the hots for Lori, was as foolish as it was incongruous
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The room was cozy with a fire burning low in the fireplace on the far side of the room, incongruous with the thick air of devastation
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Yes, I know a warlock with a bad back sounds incongruous, but we hadn’t had a good healer among us since Dottie McAllister, my second cousin once removed (or something like that), passed away a few years ago
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Now, though, she shot me an incongruous smile and said, “Yes
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She leaned against the laboratory table, certainly an incongruous picture in her new role as contrasted with the stained and dirty background of paraphernalia of medico-legal investigation
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Inconsistent, complicated, incongruous
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He knocked on the door, which felt incongruous since he had gone in and out through this very door for twenty years without ever knocking
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She was led to the church, an incongruous pink and white structure at the back of a small tight compound
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He had to stand on the edge of the weir before he could see the huts and the incongruous pink church at the end of the narrow dirt track that led off to his right
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The car, dimly lit from within, looked incongruous in the otherwise profoundly dark forest
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These notions are as incongruous as meters and kilograms
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She tried to dispel the sounds as best she could and concentrate on being quiet and quick, the two seeming to be incongruous at the moment
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“Oh, hi, Carol,” she said in a perky tone that was entirely incongruous with her manner
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What made the scene even more incongruous was that one of the three ships was American and the other two were Japanese
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She put down her plastic knife and fork, incongruous in a place with twelve dollar lunch entrees, and looked Shaw in the eyes
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No homes yet tapped into this line, but as a public gesture, the magazine placed an access point at the Brooklin Public Library, a tiny white frame building with four incongruous Grecian columns, across the street from the Brooklin General Store
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No expression could be more incongruous or revolting than that a ‘spirit died or could die
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When these two statements of Campbell are brought side by side, can you not see the visage of his argument change? I thought he said it would be the most revolting in incongruous to say a spirit could die, and the reason just because they are spirits, no reverence whatever to the power of God
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His look seemed too incongruous for the simplicity of the situation at
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This stupid repetition was too incongruous in its ineptitude with the serious, brooding and enigmatic glance he turned upon his visitor
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He was almost running about the room, moving his fat little legs quicker and quicker, looking at the ground, with his right hand behind his back, while with his left making gesticulations that were extraordinarily incongruous with his words
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Not only was this "serious business man" strikingly incongruous with the rest of the party, but it was evident, too, that he had come upon some matter of consequence, that some exceptional cause must have brought him and that therefore something was going to happen
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Cervantes' humour is for the most part of that broader and simpler sort, the strength of which lies in the perception of the incongruous
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Incongruous as it was with his mood and his circumstances, he felt that strange and bitter sweet sensation that every author experiences the first time he sees himself in print; besides, he was only twenty-three
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Athens is still quite capable of striking a young man as the oddest combination, the most incongruous assortment
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You only laugh when something is odd or incongruous, and then it almost seems to hurt you
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made but a faint attempt to parry this unexpected blow; the monarchy he had scarcely reconstructed tottered on its precarious foundation, and at a sign from the emperor the incongruous structure of ancient prejudices and new ideas fell to the ground
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But Herbert's was a very different case, and it often caused me a twinge to think that I had done him evil service in crowding his sparely furnished chambers with incongruous upholstery work, and placing the Canary-breasted Avenger at his disposal
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We laughed about it at the time, making up incongruous new names for ourselves—names of movie stars and cartoon characters and strange combinations of words that weren’t rightly names at all
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It is perhaps the most incongruous relationship in sports
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In this memorable year '95 a curious and incongruous succession of cases had engaged his attention, ranging from his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca—an inquiry which was carried out by him at the express desire of His Holiness the Pope—down to his arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer, which removed a plague-spot from the East-End of London
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Her sharp, attractive features looked incongruous pressed to the hard tiles of the bathroom
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Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens
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It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together—that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling
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Hence, although I had now two characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil, and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll, that incongruous compound of whose reformation and improvement I had already learned to despair
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the pet name incongruous
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Then a strangely incongruous sight struck her eyes
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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 the roof of the forest; on the veranda of a hospitable ranch, where the ice and the dice clicked, and a tiger cat played with its chain on the mown grass - that they seemed voices so distant as to be meaningless; their matter passed clean through the mind, and out leaving no mark, like the facts about themselves which fellow travellers distribute so freely in American railway trains
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The notice concluded with the incongruous printed courtesy:
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He was rather soft‐ hearted, but self‐confident and sometimes extremely conceited in speech, which had an absurd effect, incongruous with his little figure
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Incongruous as it was with his mood and his circumstances, he felt that strange and bitter sweet sensation that every author experiences the first time he sees himself in print; besides, he was only twenty‐three
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He is standing in an incongruous zone of bright white outside Con Ed headquarters, a nice-looking black man in a tie and windbreaker
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Does it seem incongruous to you that a Middlemarch surgeon should dream of himself as a discoverer? Most of us, indeed, know little of the great originators until they have been lifted up among the constellations and already rule our fates
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The black procession, when dismounted, looked the larger for the smallness of the churchyard; the heavy human faces and the black draperies shivering in the wind seemed to tell of a world strangely incongruous with the lightly dropping blossoms and the gleams of sunshine on the daisies
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Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner
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It was precious wood, exotic and beautiful, incongruous in this sodden armpit of a place