This is certain, however, that the entertainment of Christmas Evans, in most of his excursions, would be of the coarsest kind.
On the wall in face of him was pasted a figure of Our Lady--one of the coarsest of prints--and beneath it was a small basket of straw, with a little vessel of white earthenware sunk into the wall.
In short, he was the coarsest and most repulsive barbarian ever beheld.
The meals of coarsest food were eaten from wooden or pewter dishes.
American cotton was poor, and the product of a quality inferior to the coarsest and heaviest-unbleached of to-day; but experiment soon altered all this.
The sand thus separated is only the coarsestparticles mixed with a little muddy water.
In so free and so kind a manner did they contribute to my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
He boasted in the coarsest terms of his complete influence over you, evidently without a suspicion of the impression of venality and indelicacy which his words were calculated to make on me.
I have suffered from her the utmost refinements of caprice and treachery, and the coarsest tirades of abuse.
But since man, as a microcosm, must partake also of the coarsest matter, his dwelling-place could not be within the Empyrean, but must be fixed on earth.
Things on earth are composed of the coarsest of all matter; things in the surrounding heavens of a finer substance, accessible to the influence of intelligences.
Notwithstanding this good training, Julia became one of the lewdest andcoarsest women in Rome.
But in time this form of philosophy became identified with the coarsest sensuality and the most wicked lust.
The coarsest flatterer could not accuse me of oratorical ability.
I hear, too, that since prohibitive duty has been imposed on the importation of petroleum the coarsest kinds of composite candles have been selling at 9s.
This I am convinced of, by observing the difference of the habits of fish in strictly preserved streams, and in streams where even peasants have fished with the coarsest tackle.
I might quote the Traun at Ischl, where the native fisherman used three or four of the coarsest flies on the coarsest hair links made of four or five or six hairs, and the Traun at Gmunden, where they are not allowed to fish.
A fine collar or lace, if tumbled or soiled, will lose its beauty when contrasted with the same article in the coarsest material perfectly pure and smooth.
So, with many tears, and almost despairing, Lurlee and Zyna, dressed as peasant women in the coarsest clothes, left him ere morning dawned.
There exist in the coarsest minds, nay, while such are engaged in most abominable wickedness, redeeming traits of character, which show that the image of the Deity is seldom totally and entirely defaced even in the rudest bosoms.
They labor for fixed wages, it is true; but all they can earn is hardly sufficient to keep them in the coarsest clothing and pay their contingent expenses.
It ranges from the coarsest compact sulphate of lime or ordinary plaster, to the most transparent gypsum or selenite, of which last there is a great abundance.
The scriptural arguments urged for this opposition are generally marked by the coarsest realism.
Ralph, Jack and Jim had no time for such work, so two other men were all winter kept busy in the barn at "crackling flax" and afterward passing it through a coarse hetchel to separate the coarsest or "swingling tow.
It was evidently a case of coarsest hypocrisy; for his looks contradicted his words and his voice.
In the earliest stages of civilization accessible to our observation, we find materialism prevailing in its coarsest form, and life absorbed entirely by the lowest physical wants.
Frederick the Great, who continued nearly all this, prohibited the exportation of Silesian yarn, with the exception of the very coarsest and finest, as well as of that which had been bleached.
Footnote 217-2: If all the rich were suddenly to become misers, live on bread and water, and go about in the coarsest clothing, etc.
He always wore next his skin a hair-cloth with iron plates and hoops studded with sharp spikes, over which his only garment, made of the coarsest stuff, was the same both in summer and winter.
She never took more than one meal during the day, and that of the coarsest food: seeking in this to emulate the lives of those fathers of the desert who shed such radiance over the Eastern and African Church.
These rules invariably required the use of the plainest diet and of the coarsest habits.
Here the strict discipline of the Irish monks was rigidly observed, and the coarsest fare the only refection permitted to the religious.
This feeling swelled by degrees to open anger, in the blindness of which every fresh suggestion of Spontini's appeared but frivolous fault-finding, to which he bluntly responded in the coarsest German.
I remember the tender ambition which inspired me to win the encouraging sympathy of this sensitive woman, who was painfully wasting away amid the coarsest surroundings.
Yet this happens wherever slavery exists; in its coarsest form, in cannibalism.
The bread we had to eat was meal bread of the coarsest kind, and of this we had not half enough.
Their living is of the coarsest kind, in fact it is a marvel how they exist at all.
Then she recollected herself, gave her startled visitor a comical look, and dropped into her chair, before which that coarsest of poor needlewoman's work was lying.
Mrs. Hilyard was seated in her room, just as he had seen her before, working with flying needle and nervous fingers at her coarsest needlework.
The fine gentleman, under the Stuarts, was fine only in his lace and his velvet doublet; his language was coarse, his manners coarser, his vices the coarsest of all.
Both were men of thecoarsest minds and most depraved lives.
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