It struck me as a rare example (even where examples are numerous) of a man utterly misplaced, that this enormous scholar, great in the classic tongues, and inevitably converting his own simplest vernacular into a learned language, should have been set up in this homely pulpit, and ordained to preach salvation to a rustic audience, to whom it is difficult to imagine how he could ever have spoken one available word.

Would you drink some lemonade, if I made it for you?" "I would drink poison, if you made it for me!" "A decidedly misplaced enthusiasm!" laughed she, and left the room.

Sin is energy deliberately misplaced: energy directed against the course of things, the infinite development, the will of God.

The Vergilian simile put into the mouth of Antonius is distinctly misplaced; but as our author so seldom offends in this respect he may be pardoned for the nonce.

The tremulous voice took on new confidence, but the marrow of my spine turned icy as I heard the fatally misplaced and confused words that followed: "If any man knowknow just and good cause why this womanwhy this womanshould not" Bartholomew Storrs's gaunt hand shot upward, high in air, outspread in the gesture of forbiddance.

I remember the suspicion and the murmurings with which Louis Blanc, then living in brave and honourable exile in London, and the good friend of so many of us, and who was really a literary Jacobin to the tips of his fingers, remonstrated against that piece of what he thought grievously misplaced glorification.

Next he comes to his Adjective pronouns; and, after proving that he has grossly misplaced and misnamed every one of them, he gives his lists of the three kinds of these.

Those well-cut similitudes of Castles, and Knights, the imagery of the board, she would argue, (and I think in this case justly) were entirely misplaced and senseless.

In the following sentence, the latter term is palpably misplaced: "It does not clearly appear at first what the antecedent is to they.

Careful sounding of Gottfried's internal arrangements by a well-known surgeon seems to point to the fact that all the other unsymmetrical parts of his body are similarly misplaced.

There was a little delay in the cloakroom while the attendant searched for Philip's hat, which had been temporarily misplaced.

" The indulgent pity conventionally bestowed upon Charles Lambone of the most manly, self-reliant of characters, to say nothing of his geniusis absurdly' misplaced.

By the bedraggled drapery that flapped and fluttered in the wind, by the long, unkempt hair that hid the face and eyes, and by the grotesquely misplaced bonnet, the old man recognized one of his old trespassersan Indian squaw.