What is "mismate"

Usage examples of "mismate".

He lay there dazed for several moments, his twisted lips writhing, his mismated eyes almost starting from his head.

Cupay-Beast squatted darkly on its endless, knife-nailed paws in front of the stockade, pointing its mismated empty eyes straight at him, he thought.

He slept in a corner of the tent, dreaming that the twin moons were the mismated eyes of another demon sent to hunt them down.

He let the soap remain in the water to soften a little, and, returning to the dressing room, whiled away the time in mixing and mismating pairs of shoes along the walls, and also in tying the strings of the mismated shoes together in hard knots.

Her face was puffy fat in contrast to her lean frame, so that she presented the distinctly odd appearance of a mismated body and head.

For a short five minutes the four mismated persons sat trying to think of innocuous subjects of conversations, then St.

His ankles were mismated and he limped when he walked, but that was nothing to this bleak, morbid, inevitable man.

And to any young susceptible generous man, as she believed him to be, the habitual sight of a woman so lovely, so amiable, so fascinating, and so woefully mismated, was most dangerous.

A woman mismated as that poor young woman has been is so much to be pitied that a man dragged into her society as Kenneth Oswald was would slide into a warmer feeling without being conscious of it.

He remembered the cruel bull whip that always followed each new experiment on his part that did not coincide with the desires of his master, and as he thought of von Horn a nasty gleam shot his mismated eyes.

One arm was at least twelve inches longer than its mate, which was itself long in proportion to the torso, while the legs, similarly mismated and terminating in huge, flat feet that protruded laterally, caused the thing to lurch fearfully from side to side as it lumbered toward the girl.

The wizard turned back to his own business and flicked the reins of his mismated team.

It ought to put at rest forever the claim that children bind mismated people together.

Do the unhappily married ever dare pause to think of the real mate of each, lost somewhere in the wide world, perhaps going about, ever seeking, seeking, perhaps greatly mismated and equally unhappy?

The three dread Sisters who determine the fate of men must have laughed amongst themselves at such an obvious mismating, knowing well how inevitably it would tangle the threads of many other lives than the two immediately concerned.