A juggler kept a half-dozen swords and axes whirling through the air as skewers of blood sausage were brought sizzling to the tables, a juxtaposition that Tyrion thought passing clever, though not perhaps in the best of taste.
George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
There is master-morality and slave-morality—I would at once add, however, that in all higher and mixed civilizations, there are also attempts at the reconciliation of the two moralities, but one finds still oftener the confusion and mutual misunderstanding of them, indeed sometimes their close juxtaposition—even in the same man, within one soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
He found the count standing before some copies of Albano and Fattore that had been passed off to the banker as originals; but which, mere copies as they were, seemed to feel their degradation in being brought into juxtaposition with the gaudy colors that covered the ceiling.
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Moreover, at the age of ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; a newcomer is in the way.
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
His interjection of humor by incongruous juxtaposition…provides some welcome relief.
Rick Riordan
The Son of Neptune
Was it possible to imagine so absurd and cynical a juxtaposition?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
“I understand you’re looking for a business gonnegtion.” The juxtaposition of these two remarks was startling.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby