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But this composite, unadaptive city-dweller: how incongruous a figure against that background of palms and barren mountains!

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman

A further consequence often is, that the stem, too, begins to respond to the unadaptive stranger's influence.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar