No doubt it would be more reasonable and more "congruous" that Bacon's book should suggest Bacon. From Wordnik.com. [De Libris: Prose and Verse] Reference
“I find her eminently, transcendently congruous,” said Whitemaid. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
But one man can merit the first grace for another by congruous merit. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
That doesn't seem to be congruous with the first part of your sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Congratulations, Chuck!] Reference
They were still the biggest mountains to be found on an H-congruous world. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
My incredulous fingers softly caressed the new, marvelously congruous nose. From Wordnik.com. [Restoree]
Puritan, so congruous with the new simple life of a nation of common people. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
Nature, though indifferent to man's welfare, is yet partly congruous with it. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Her tangled golden hair was as in - congruous as a girl's wig on an old woman. From Wordnik.com. [Web Of The Witch World]
Obj. 2: Further, the order of grace is more congruous than the order of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The individual volitions are congruous with the permanent set of the man's will. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
It may be the result of a whim, of an irrational impulse little congruous with a man's nature. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
This is all congruous with the system of the day: the abuses are real, the reform is imaginary. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
I answer: no man can merit his restoration after a future lapse, either by condign or by congruous merit. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
There was a congruous incongruity about her which set many people puzzling to find out her real character. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
But the fourth figure had a sort of grotesque solemnity that seemed strangely congruous to that incongruity. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
His discussion shows that he feels attracted to the scholastic distinction between “congruous merit” and. From Wordnik.com. [Desiderius Erasmus] Reference
It is perfectly congruous with the habits of fishermen and the character of the instruments which they employ. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
On the first point: the faith of some avails for the healing of others by congruous merit, not by condign merit. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
He was proud of appearing in such incongruous attires -- proud of the fact that he always made them look congruous. From Wordnik.com. [The Father Brown Omnibus]
He was proud of appearing in such incongruous attires — proud of the fact that he always made them look congruous. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
There is an ugliness and a stiffness about it which is congruous with the ugliness and stiffness of every thing else. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
And the strangely congruous incongruity of that small act is still vivid in my mind, and has played itself out all day. From Wordnik.com. [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: October 2005 Archives] Reference
And you affirm, that neither the one nor the other must be said to be congruous to atoms, because they are incorruptible. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
It was urged at the end of the third chapter that it is congruous to credit mineral species with an internal power or force. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
But it is congruous that those earthly things, indeed, which are spread all around us, should be types of the celestial, being. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
Culturally, Americans have a fairly congruous understanding of what "Whiteness" and "Maleness" means, for better or for worse. From Wordnik.com. [E. A. Hanks: The Other Candidate] Reference
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