out-of-keeping

Updated: May 8, 2025

And yet, even so, how strangely out-of-place, out-of-keeping she was here in the wilderness. In some confusion he strode over to lend a hand to Phineas Striker. The rustle of silk behind him and the quick clatter of heels, evidenced the fact that the girl had crossed swiftly to Eliza's side.

George Barr McCutcheon - Viola Gwyn

Although man's qualities belong more to the head, and woman's more to the heart yet it is not less necessary that man's heart should be cultivated as well as his head, and woman's head cultivated as well as her heart. A heartless man is as much out-of-keeping in civilized society as a stupid and unintelligent woman.

Samuel Smiles - Character