And by the time the ill-sorted cars cross the finish line near the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putting A Charge Back Into Driving] Reference

The classes themselves are ill-sorted and often troublesome, and are usually unwieldy by reason of their size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference

Madame Voss was certainly nearly twenty years younger than her husband, and yet the pair did not look to be ill-sorted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Lion of Granpere] Reference

The musings of the left today consist of an ill-sorted congeries of hopelessly inconsistent views much like old-line Anglican theology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Evil of Leon Trotsky Revisited] Reference

And so the four ill-sorted people sat each at a different side of the table, with a long stretch of gold-decked and flower-laden cloth between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

Then I put my hands to my head where that whirling of ill-timed, ill-sorted odds and ends of learning started such a pain as I had felt upon my first coming to the Vupsall camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorceress of the Witch World]

Very young she was not — having reached some years of her life in advance of thirty; but then, neither was the Honourable George very young; and in this respect the two were not ill-sorted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Small House at Allington] Reference

"And certainly," adds his biographer, "I have seen a party composed of materials as ill-sorted as could possibly be imagined, drawn out and attracted together, till at last you would believe they had been born for each other.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference

O, theme of many topics! chaos of ill-sorted fancies!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference

Even these charms faded under the sufferings attendant on an ill-sorted match.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference

Such ill-sorted alliances are disastrous to both parties, and scarcely more to one than the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain Facts for Old and Young] Reference

He thought it to be unseasonable, ill-judged, and ill-sorted with the circumstances of all the parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)] Reference

It is a large and ill-sorted jury, and its decisions often bring surprise at the time, but they never get reversed.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher] Reference

They walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheerful—By Request] Reference

There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill-sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats, for boys and women; but little of solid meat, for men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference

It seems a great pity that the principle of personal freedom should be responsible for so many ill-shaped and ill-sorted physical incompetents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army] Reference

It "was an excellent good word before it was ill-sorted," and we were fortunate in having a minister who was scholar enough to know what it meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

When they dunnot agree, for that their tempers is ill-sorted, they has rooms o 'one kind an' another in their houses, above a bit, and they can live asunders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Times]

What we get is not a new compound with the element that corresponds to poetic energy transmuted, but an ill-sorted mixture, while Keats gives us the unblemished gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lyric An Essay] Reference

The waggons would have been a hard pull for sixteen oxen properly arranged; so that it is not surprising that our ill-sorted teams found the work almost beyond their strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years' War] Reference

As Doll Tearsheet says in the second part of "King Henry IV": "These villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy'; which was an excellent good word before it was ill-sorted.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America] Reference

Very young she was not, -- having reached some years of her life in advance of thirty; but then, neither was the Honourable George very young; and in this respect the two were not ill-sorted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Small House at Allington] Reference

YOUR have here a kind of medley, a heterogeneous, ill-spelt, heteroclite, (worse) excentric sort of a-- a--; in short, it is a true Negroe calibash -- of ill-sorted, undigested chaotic matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, Vol. 2] Reference

But I am not a professor with a mind like a warehouse, rich with the spoils of time, but a mere peddler, conscious of the janglings of an ill-sorted, ill-packed knapsack of unconsidered trifles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

The elder sister caressed the younger tenderly; told her of all the dangers of a secret marriage; of all the miseries of an ill-sorted one; and implored her to dismiss her wealthy lover, and struggle with her misplaced love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ishmael In the Depths] Reference

‘“And then, ” quo’ he, “ye’ll be ill-sorted to hear that he’s like to be in the prison at Portanferry if he disna tak a’ the better care o’ himself, for there’s been warrants out to tak him as soon as he comes ower the water frae Allonby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XLV] Reference

This may mean, that it expands itself notwithstanding all obstructions: but the images in the comparison are so ill-sorted, and the effect so obscurely expressed, that I cannot but think something omitted that connected the last sentence with the former.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies] Reference

  Lordlings and freres — ill-sorted fry, I ween!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference

"For a short time the ill-sorted compact lasted, and there was a peace which each of them abhorred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Cicero Volume One] Reference

“For a short time the ill-sorted compact lasted, and there was a peace which each of them abhorred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Cicero]

‘“And then,” quo’ he, “ye’ll be ill-sorted to hear that he’s like to be in the prison at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Mannering] Reference

It is pity people are so ill-sorted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

He and his wife were an ill-sorted pair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Juan] Reference

And she, our neighbour, his ill-sorted fere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

(Like those ill-sorted unions, work supposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PRELUDE BOOK FIRST] Reference

Lordlings and freres -- ill-sorted fry I ween!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference