A2; b6(1)] get loose, out of position, but not disengaged.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Take the following: ­ Like a purple beech among the greens Looks out of place .
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But you can talk: yours is a kindly vein: I have I think ­ Heaven knows ­ as much within; Have or should have, but for a thought or two, That like a purple beech 7 among the greens Looks out of place: 'tis from no want in her: It is my shyness, or my self-distrust, Or something of a wayward modern mind Dissecting passion.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

And I thought to myself how delighted, how entranced, he would have been to look upon this curious being, born not under the snow, but far under the surface of the earth, where in these vast chambers of this World within a World, this strange folk had, like plants grown in a dark, deep cellar, gradually parted with all their coloring until their eyes glowed like orbs of pure crystal, until their bones had been bleached to amber clearness, and their blood coursed colorless through colorless veins.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Then by and by this other object, to which all attention is summoned: the fog grows thinner and thinner; some one catches sight of a pale, glimmering light on our port quarter; and we know that we have left Lismore lighthouse in our wake.
— from White Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume II by William Black

He had given generously, lavishly, out of proportion, as most persons reckon charitable givings, to his means.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

But I think if of our own accord we centred our minds and spent our guineas less on our preserves, we might be wiser, and if we grudged our woods less to the hawk and the woodpecker and the owl and the jay, and all the rest of their native population, we should be wiser still.
— from A House-Party, Don Gesualdo, and A Rainy June by Ouida

The people of the city chiefly are the merchants and artificers, most of them tradesmen; and both they who are masters, and their servants, being constantly employed in trades and personal businesses, they are the less troublesome in the government of them; as to the criminal part, idleness, being the mother of mischief, causeth quarrels and debaucheries, from whence pilferings, robberies, fightings, and murders do arise; but where people are kept to occupations, traffic, and employments, as they are here, it breeds civility, peaceableness of disposition, desire of rest and quiet, and a plentiful subsistence, and gives less occasion of proceedings in criminal offences.
— from A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Bulstrode Whitlocke

Some years ago I heard a great leader of our people define democracy.
— from The Mentor: The Cradle of Liberty, Vol. 6, Num. 10, Serial No. 158, July 1, 1918 by Albert Bushnell Hart

above whose towers outstream Banners that wave with motions of a dream— Rising or drooping in the noontide gleam; "Gray lines of Orient pilgrims: a gaunt band On famished camels, o'er the desert sand Plodding towards their prophet's Holy Land; "Mid-ocean,—and a shoal of whales at play, Lifting their monstrous frontlets to the day, Through rainbow arches of sun-smitten spray; "Followed by splintered icebergs, vast and lone, Set in swift currents of some arctic zone, Like fragments of a Titan world o'erthrown."
— from Poets of the South A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies with Typical Poems, Annotated by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

In this good land of ours, popularity adds to its more worthless properties the substantial result of power; and it is not surprising that so many forget their God in the endeavour to court the people.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

General Lee ordered other portions of his force to take position on the spurs overlooking the enemy's main encampment, while he led three regiments to the height below and nearest to the position of the enemy.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

It is situated in a short and rather narrow street, leading from an omnibus route running north from the city to nowhere in particular—or, if particulars must be given, to that complicated assemblage of carts, cabs, and clothes-lines; of manure heaps and disorganised pumps; of caged thrushes, blackbirds, and magpies; of dead dogs and cats, and colonies of thriving rats; of imprisoned terriers and goats let out on parole; of shrill and angry maternity and mud-loving infancy; and of hissing, curry-combing grooms and haltered horses, to which Londoners have given the designation of a Mews.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 by Various