"Inapplicability" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cartridge is served out instead of blank. The correspondents are very fond of reporting that the behaviour of the men suggested a parade—which simile, it is to be presumed, was borne in upon their fantastic brains by its utter inapplicability. The parade may be suggested before the real work begins—when it is a question of marching away from the landing-stage; but after the work—our work— has begun, there is remarkably little resemblance ...
— Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories • Henry Seton Merriman |
