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Their being agents now congruous with my will gives me no guarantee that like results will recur again from their activity.
ESSAYS IN RADICAL EMPIRICISMWILLIAM JAMES
The ages of inquiry and faith should, however, change places, in order to be congruous.
THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL. 4, NO. 5, NOVEMBER, 1863VARIOUS
That is my moral, for I believe in Culture—speaking strictly now of the honest and of our own congruous kind.
WITHIN THE RIM AND OTHER ESSAYSHENRY JAMES
He found Quakerism "congruous with his nature in respect of its complete individualism and absence of ecclesiastical government."
HERBERT SPENCERJ. ARTHUR THOMSON
Over it hung the branches of a lofty breadfruit-tree, a congruous canopy for such a group.
WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEASFREDERICK O'BRIEN
Death cutting off the fatal thread with a scythe, is not a very sublime or congruous image.
THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, VOLUME 1ALEXANDER POPE
This is all congruous with the ſyſtem of the day: the abuſes are real, the reform iſ imaginary.
A RESIDENCE IN FRANCE DURING THE YEARS 1792, 1793, 1794 AND 1795, COMPLETEAN ENGLISH LADY
The figure was so congruous with its surroundings that she saw with surprise a face totally strange to her.
THE POWER AND THE GLORYGRACE MACGOWAN COOKE
Love laughs at rules, but if you ask me my candid opinion, the marriage would not be … in fact, congruous.
KATE CARNEGIE AND THOSE MINISTERSIAN MACLAREN
We simply note the studies which are most congruous with the special line selected, and by this congruity we shape our group.
THE TEACHERGEORGE HERBERT PALMER

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