Crossword clues for ill-assorted
ill-assorted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "ill-assorted".
As this ill-assorted pair sat at the open window on the quiet summer evenings, far above the distant woodland and the forest meadows, face to face with the long streaks of solemn light along the horizon, an almost imperceptible murmur, so soft and gentle was it, passed up through the branches of the sycamore and chestnut trees and of the lower growing pines, and, mingling with the distant Ranz des Vaches, brought up as it seemed the life and struggles and sorrows of the plain and of the people into the ears of this worn-out, old, feeble aristocrat of the hills.
I felt at once that I must take charge of her, and put an end to this ill-assorted match.
Negotiating the stairs with difficulty, while all bipeds fled at their approach, the ill-assorted party arrived at Room 388.
Duncan had purchased her public-house, or whether the antique-dealer's wife had found other suspicious characters to follow, dismissed from my nostrils the stench of old Fryer's yard, and the musty odour of the Cypresses, gave no thought to the two ill-assorted pairs of lovers: Ed Wilson and his quiet pale wife, and Peter Ferrers with the doctor's talkative widow.
Fitzpatrick and the three ill-assorted maids and the four dairymaids and the stablemen were lined up to greet her.
They were remnants of the old willow pattern set the Reverend had had for as long as Roger could remember, the blue-and-white Chinese trees and pagodas augmented by odd bits of ill-assorted crockery acquired from jumble sales.
Although he was by far the weakest of the many sorcerers aboard, he was the only one who could keep the peace between the two ill-assorted groups.
She must have given them some signal I missed, for they began to thump out, not ill-assorted bangs, but a definite rhythm.
They were an ill-assorted couple, both clad in togas, one white, one red.
Everywhere he looked he saw evidence of a life being lived quite contentedly without him - the ill-assorted blue-and-white china in the dresser, the vase full of daffodils, the stack of pre-war Vogues, even the arrangement of the furniture (the two armchairs and the sofa drawn up cosily around the hearth).