"Inapplicability" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but their very beauty jars like a false note. One feels they were written by another hand, by an artist of a higher stamp than a Border 'ballad-maker.' And not only is it their beauty that jars, but so also does their inapplicability to Jamie Telfer and to the circumstances in which he found himself—so much so, indeed, that it may well occur to one that the stanza belongs to some other ballad, and has accidentally been pitchforked into this one. It would not have been out ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang
... use of to show the inapplicability of free trade to the United States, and for similar purpose in the Australian colonies, erroneously in my opinion, but certainly with more plausibility than can be the case in the United States, for ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill
... France, even in their intercourse with one another, to ape the manners of their superiors. "An English peasant," as Mr Scott has well remarked, "appears to spurn courtesy from him, in a bitter sense of its inapplicability to his condition." This feeling is unknown in France. A French soldier hands his "bien aimee" into a restaurateur's of the lowest order and supplies her with fruits and wine, with the grace and foppery of a Parisian "petit maitre," and with the ...
— Travels in France during the years 1814-1815 • Archibald Alison
... relation.] Irrelation — N. irrelation^, dissociation; misrelation^; inapplicability; inconnection^; multifariousness; disconnection &c (disjunction) 44; inconsequence, independence; incommensurability; irreconcilableness &c (disagreement) 24; heterogeneity; unconformity &c 83; irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem [Lat.]; intrusion &c 24; non-pertinence. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... droll inapplicability of this comparison,— and Heliobas cheerfully continued—"I am on the wing just now,— bound for Mexico. I had business in London, and arrived here two days since,—two days more will see me again en voyage. I am glad to have met you thus by chance, for I did ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli |
