The vision has disappeared with the sounds which called it forth, and the musician feels sorrowfully that it cannot be recalled: for the effect was incommensurate with the cause; they had nothing in common with each other.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
I shall dispense with all "surds" and similar absurdities, notwithstanding the fact that the sides of our triangle are clearly incommensurate, since we cannot exactly extract the square roots of the three square areas.
"Amusements in Mathematics"
Henry Ernest Dudeney
The impalpable ether that fills all space became palpable and vibrated and palpated with incommensurate waves; and the non-popitent nether which is beyond all space became popitent and gyrated and popitated with calculatious ostenulations.
"The Book of Gud"
Dan Spain Harold Hersey