juxtaposition

• And the close juxtaposition, and even intermingling, of flowers with herbs, vegetables, and fruits gave a sense of homely simplicity and usefulness, as well as of beauty. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• The juxtaposition, then, of the bones of man and extinct animals is no proof of the remote antiquity of either. —  Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
• But here the two things are brought into clear juxtaposition, the bright hope of Heaven and the hard work done here below. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• When such people are brought into juxtaposition, there necessarily results a clash of contending desires and purposes; and by this fact we are led logically to the conclusion that the proper subject-matter of the drama is a struggle between contrasted human wills. —  The Theory of the Theatre
• He never brought people who disliked each other into juxtaposition, as some notorious hostesses of our own time are fond of doing. —  Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885

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