But he classed themsay, with the croquettes adorned with pink paper frills which were then invariably served at the suppers of the Lichfield German Club,as acceptable enough, upon a conscious holiday, but wholly incongruous with the slippered ease of home.

Mere light of the eyes, a half-imagined glory, incongruous in the sharp smell of antiseptics, it left him wondering in the cloister.

Nor is the mode of conveyance imagined by Voltaire less incongruous than that of Swift.

In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it comes from vagueness of thought; and this again almost always means that there is something radically wrong and incongruous about the thought itselfin a word, that it is incorrect.

Further (passing over the special laws against it, the mischievous consequences of it, the sore punishments appointed to it), we may consider, that to common sense vain swearing is a very unreasonable and ill-favoured practice, greatly misbecoming any sober, worthy, or honest person; but especially most absurd and incongruous to a Christian.

In that disordered room she seemed as incongruous as some portrait from a house across the water, as coldly unresponsive to her surroundings.

The three long rows of campaign ribbons looked incongruous beside the bunch of flowers that somebody had crammed into a Damascus vase on the desk, with the estimable military notion of making the utmost use of space.