" "And the reason why a city boy like me," suggested J.W., "would be a misfit in the country.

She had got on with him, perversely, much better than her mother had, and the bulging misfit of his duck waistcoat, with his trick of swinging his eye-glass, at the end of an extraordinarily long string, far over the scene, came back to her as positive features of the image of her remoter youth.

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value: a little misfit in life makes us laugh, a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

He is a misfit.

PATOU I do believe a blackbird is just a misfit crow!

One might have an ideal, and if that ideal became a realization it would be found a misfit for one reason or another.

Mrs. Stanmore, too, had just sent back a misfitting costume to the dressmaker for the third time; so each lady being, as it were, primed and loaded, the lightest spark would suffice to produce explosion.

In many cases this is undoubtedly due to a misfit, but in most cases it seems to be due to a false notion that there is nothing there of interest.

Such a person was a sort of social misfit, an odd quantity, educated out of his own class, with no possible hope of entrance into that above it.

"I'm not a partner in your enterprise, and if you get a misfit couple returned on your hands it is your lookout, not mine.

Shakespear's morality is a mere reach-me-down; and because Hamlet does not feel comfortable in it, and struggles against the misfit, he suggests something better, futile as his struggle is, and incompetent as Shakespear shews himself in his effort to think out the revolt of his feeling against readymade morality.

And all our conceptions of the relationships between man and man, and of justice and rightfulness and social desirableness, remain something misfitting and inappropriate, something uncomfortable and potentially injurious, as if we were trying to wear sharp-edged clothes made for a giant out of tin, until we bring them to the test and measure of realised individualities.

No doubt they are largely taking over the traditional forms of American thought and expression quietly and without protest, and wearing them; but they will wear them as a man wears a misfit, shaping and adapting it every day more and more to his natural form, here straining a seam and there taking in a looseness.

Of course when they came back they had a lot of lingo about the art atmosphere and all that; home was a misfit and impossible, so they went to live in a swell studio with two maids and a Jap butler in costume, and do really give bang-up musicals, with paid talent of course.

ESTABROOKS, G. H. Man, the mechanical misfit.

The whited sepulchre; The misfit; The American playboy, or spendthrift, also sometimes called (Southern U.S.A.) and others.

ESTABROOKS, G. H. Man, the mechanical misfit.

The whited sepulchre; The misfit; The American playboy, or spendthrift, also sometimes called (Southern U.S.A.) and others.

[Illustration: A MISFIT.

BROWN'S NEW WORLD THE TIME OF HIS LIFE I BROWN HIMSELF Brown was so tall and thin, and his study was so low and square, that the one in the other seemed a misfit.

He was struck by a strange likeness between her hard look and the frown with which the old woman at the door had received him; and this, or something in the misfit of her gown, or the glimpse he had of a stocking grotesquely fine in comparison of the stuff from which it peepedor perhaps the cleanliness of the step she was scouring, since he seemed to see everything without looking at itput an idea into his head.

Now, if he were an Englishman, he would Glory in the Misfit.

The prisons are not the only places which are inhabited by the sub-normal and the misfit.

Very few people of superior intelligence and education do manual labor and the more disagreeable the manual labor, the more certain it is that the job is done by the sub-normal and the misfit.

"Every single thing turned out a misfit!