1 In the years that followed that second christening, many changes had taken place in her that made the pet name incongruous.
2 Then a strangely incongruous sight struck her eyes.
3 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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 4 It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous fagots were thus bound together that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 5 But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.
6 If he tried, his pictures seemed incongruous and false.
7 The most incongruous ideas were in confusion in his head.
8 Their accoutrements were horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in rags.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 9 This incongruity did not escape the guest.
10 The incongruity between the men's deeds and their environment was great.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current 11 Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity.
12 Nor, strictly investigated, is there any incongruity in this comparison.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View. 13 Neither he nor she had had any such adventure before and neither was conscious of any incongruity.
14 I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice.
15 Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.