242 examples of misplaced in sentences

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.

This unabashed faith in the good will of men seems not misplaced, for not only do public men show some confidence in the official capacity of women, but to my inquiry as to whom was due their opportunities to "get on," business women invariably replied, "To men.

Yet never was commiseration for the shepherd more misplaced.

" "And yet its silence is, after all, its eloquence," added Paul; "and the name is not so misplaced as one might at first think.

Such misplaced mercy was a crime in the eyes of the crusaders.

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.

Even if, through a misplaced devotion to his profession, he had determined to marry into a doctor's familythere was Esther!

"I misplaced it some time ago and couldn't lay hands on it, but I came across it by accident this morning, so now I'll take care of it.

"Just now, Mrs. Marlow said to me, speaking of her photothe fourth print, you know'I misplaced it some time ago,' she said, 'and couldn't lay hands on it, but I came across it accidentally this morning.'

Every care hath his just order; neither is there any one either neglected or misplaced.

It has been so often misplaced.

This adulation of the Bourbon family in his sermon, besides the meanness of it, was highly misplaced, coming from the mouth of a Protestant minister, and somebody exclaimed on leaving the Church: "Que doit-on penser d'un ministre protestant du Canton de Vaud, qui prodigue des louanges à une famille qui a été l'ennemie acharnée de l'Elise reformée, et qui a persécuté les protestants d'une manière si atroce?"

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.

"Misplaced in life, I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should belet it end.

It may easily be imagined, that a poem constructed upon such a plan, must be full of cumbrous and misplaced description, and overloaded with a crowd of incidents equally unmeaning and ill assorted.

The insipidity of Madame de Moret soon counteracted the spell of her beauty; and although on his return from Sedan the King had appeared to be more fascinated by her extraordinary loveliness than even at the first period of their acquaintance, it was not long ere he listened with a patience very unusual to him to the indignant remonstrances of the Queen on this new infidelity, and even assured her that her reproaches were misplaced.

The necessity of the relief alluded to may be admitted, without allowing that we must substitute either the misplaced charms of versification, or a secondary comic plot, to relieve the solemn weight and monotony of tragedy.

" "But, of course, before doing so I must have a satisfactory guarantee that my confidence in putting my work in your hands will not be misplaced and that your execution is of the necessary high quality.

And the Doctor, who had an abiding and very misplaced confidence in the fellow, adds plaintively: "Savage was at the same time so touched with the discovery of his real mother that it was his frequent practice to walk in the dark evenings for several hours before her door in hopes of seeing her as she might come by accident to the window, or cross her apartment with a candle in her hand.

"There was a hearty chuckle and another voice said: "I know it's mean to make you a victim of misplaced confidence, but it came across me like a flash that I couldn't do a better thing for the Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts and all the 'good scouts,' old and young, than to broadcast a good word for my friend Marconi.

"The real with its meaning read wrong and emphasis misplaced is the unreal.

Kansa is now confronted with the ghastly truthhow Vasudeva's willingness to surrender his first six sons has lulled his suspicions, how his confidence in Vasudeva has been entirely misplaced, and how completely he has been deceived.

Here and there is some discrowned Lear, who has thrown off his regal mantle, and stands in faded russet, misplaced among the monarchs.

Jones had misplaced or lost his wire and began to turn the camp topsy-turvy in his impatient efforts to locate it.

Yes, child, your confidence is not misplaced.

242 examples of  misplaced  in sentences