But the thin, throbbing island's life crawled northward inch by inch, until to-day the mansion crouches, miscast and bewildered, amid a forest of new and top-heavy flat houses-happy hunting ground for none-too-rich homeseekers-and is shaken by the jar of "L" and New York Central trains.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
That was because he had been miscast from the first, and yet had played one part too long, even though unsuccessfully, ever to learn another.
"Fanny Herself"
Edna Ferber
They always put for the nearest factory and get all hands out, he explained, adding meditatively, as he chewed on a twig: All the same, the incident shows what I've always maintained about Molly: that she is, like 'most everybody, lamentably miscast.
"The Bent Twig"
Dorothy Canfield