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Letter "O" » out of place
«What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.»
«Safety's just danger, out of place.»
Author: Harry Connick, Jr.
| Keywords:
out of place
«One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.»
Author: Thomas Arnold
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
cheerful, extremities, extremity, midday, out of place, playful, tranquil, under it, work at
«I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
East, East Is East, mixture, mixtures, nowhere, out of place, queer, queerer, queerest, The East, the West, West
«Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge,
Mind,
Thought,
Understanding,
Words
| Keywords:
human mind, intimate, introduces, introducing, in vain, out of place, Shakespeare, vain, workings
«INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights. For a complete account of _incubi_ and _succubi_, including _incubae_ and _succubae_, see the _Liber Demonorum_ of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools. Victor Hugo relates that in the Channel Islands Satan himself --tempted more than elsewhere by the beauty of the women, doubtless --sometimes plays at _incubus_, greatly to the inconvenience and alarm of the good dames who wish to be loyal to their marriage vows, generally speaking. A certain lady applied to the parish priest to learn how they might, in the dark, distinguish the hardy intruder from their husbands. The holy man said they must feel his brown for horns; but Hugo is ungallant enough to hint a doubt of the efficacy of the test.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alarm, applied, channel, dames, demons, dictionary, distinguish, doubtless, elsewhere, extinct, Hardy, hint, holy book, holy man, Holy Places, horns, Hugo, improper, incubi, incubus, intruder, islands, loyal, night school, out of place, parish, parish priest, tempted, text, The Victor, The Victors, ungallant, victor, Victor Hugo, Vows
«Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, an»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
at ease, awkward, Gulliver, out of place, schoolmaster
«Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.»
«Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
beautifully, out of character, out of place, stupid person
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