Most often an explosion is the result of gross carelessness-a sleepy engineer, and a safety-valve "out of kilter," as too many of them often are, have killed their hundreds on the Western rivers.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Your whole mental and moral and physical and spiritual system must be out of kilter, my child.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
He was puffing and blowing, the perspiration glazing his face, his yellow hair matted on his forehead, and his mustaches all out of kilter.
"In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875."
L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone