So disagreeable that the less he heard of it the better.
He was relieved to find, after Mr. Simpson had taken his departure, that Mr. Green was in no mood for catechising him, and had evidently accepted the story of his escape and return as a particularly disagreeable fact.
The instant effect was the abrupt stoppage of one of the disagreeable sounds before referred to--a sound as of pounding--and the appearance of a black girl who seemed to rise out of a pit in the floor at the darkest end of the cellar.
This gasp was also one of the disagreeable sounds which had saluted the ears of Hester on her first entrance into the new home.
They greeted each other, however, as affectionate brothers, though Jasper refrained from asking Jack questions which it might have been disagreeable to him to answer in the presence of Alethea and Mr Harwood.
He was not very comfortable though, for he had an unpleasant sort of feeling, which was carried into his dreams, that all was not right, and that something very disagreeable was about to occur.
The noise he made was sodisagreeable that I had half a mind to do it myself.
My uncle's reason for proposing the journey just now is, that he thinks the alterations will make residence here dusty and disagreeable during the spring.
My position, if you only knew it, has ten times the difficulties of yours, since this disagreeable discovery.
He was returning to England by way of Marseilles; but before turning northwards he had engaged to perform on Miss Power's account a peculiar and somewhat disagreeable duty.
With this fecula was mingled a mucilaginous juice of disagreeable flavour, but which it would be easy to get rid of by pressure.
And at once Molly forgot how disagreeable Aunt Maria had always been, and how she hated her.
They came, and they walked round and looked at the things; but they had no money to spend, it turned out, and only came to be disagreeable and make fun.
And they called her Maria after an aunt who was disagreeable, and would have been more disagreeable than ever if the baby had been called Enid or Elaine or Vivien, or any of the pretty names that will readily occur to you.
To begin with, this tract pointed out the badness, unhealthiness and discomfort of people's footwear as one saw it in every poor quarter, and asked why it was that things were in so disagreeable a state.
But on the other hand he mustn't drive her by physical force, but only by the moral pressure of disagreeable behaviour.
He was noted as being cross and disagreeable because he was not happy, and he was not happy because he wanted to go down the mountain and visit the big world below and his father would not let him.
Now the Kalidahs, although the most disagreeable creatures in the Land of Oz, were nevertheless magical inhabitants of a magical Fairyland, and in their natures a certain amount of good was mingled with the evil.
The atmosphere had the moisture and oppressiveness of the rainy season, disagreeable to travelers, but beneficial to the inhabitants of the African islands, who have no trees, and consequently need water.
Yet, however disagreeable these emanations were, the eye could not but admire this magnificent spectacle.
And a reverend clergyman of the city tells us that no citizen has a right to publish opinions disagreeable to the community!
Oh, you cruel, cruel boy, to say I am a disagreeable wife!
Although religion is presented to men as the most important thing for them in this world as well as in the other, skepticism and doubt on this subject can be for the mind but a disagreeable state, and offers but a comfortable cushion.
The universe is but what it can be; all sentient beings enjoy and suffer here: that is to say, they are moved sometimes in an agreeable, and at other times in a disagreeable way.
I was truly frightened one day, when the Khan of Khiva proposed to me seriously to marry and settle in Khiva, since persons of such extensive travelling as myself were far from disagreeable to him.
These pleasantries lightened his spirits, and prevented him from dwelling on disagreeable thoughts.
The coincidence between them will show clearly that when he called himself melancholy, and accused the season, it occurred precisely on the day when he was most wearied and overwhelmed by a host of other disagreeable things.
And then, when the silence was broken, the letters almost always brought him disagreeable accounts.
We have also seen that it was disagreeable to him to be admired and praised without having merited it.
At this same period, Hunt, who had lost all means of existence by the death of Shelley, forced himself on Lord Byron in such a disagreeable way as to become the plague of his life.
I would even have done so sooner; but the 'Courier' newspaper, and a thousanddisagreeable interpretations, have prevented me.
Not to mention the contest between Pope and King, disagreeable communications passed between the former and Florence.
We have had an adventure at last and a disagreeable one; a severe lesson as to the danger of encamping near wells.
The mist was more pronounced; a chillier breeze was in the air; a disagreeable drizzle showed momentary symptoms of falling faster.
Not only was it very disagreeable for me to be there, but I knew there was danger of the baby's swallowing me.
Being a parrot, what would have been extremely disagreeable in a child, was really as funny as possible, and I laughed until I was in danger of shedding tears myself.
It was in the glow and inspiration of this idea that I indited the answer to Mr. Rollin's missive: "Why would he make it unpleasant and disagreeable for me to do what seemed so plainly my duty?
But when you are not very fond of people, it is rather disagreeable to have them grateful, especially for nothing at all.
It's awfully disagreeable to have to blame anyone for what you could have prevented by a little care, and I never can let anybody replace what she has broken.
Everything had gone so smoothly that she would be able to enjoy Class Day without disagreeable remembrances of things left undone.
Do you remember one week last spring, when I was stiff and disagreeable and wouldn't go anywhere with you?
Although Carlotta seldom said really disagreeable things, something in her manner excited Martine's antagonism.
It is a whitish stone when it comes out of the quarry, but by continued exposure to the air the tone becomes a greyish yellow, which, though a little dull, is not disagreeable to the eye.
It was necessary that the vessel in which this final process took place should be of lead, and not of bronze or iron, since those metals gave the dye a disagreeable tinge.
A very disagreeable affair has just taken place, and to a degree exceedingly alarming; but it might have turned out much more distressing, and, on the whole, we may all congratulate ourselves at the result.
Dear Miss Dacre, 'A very unimportant but somewhat disagreeable incident has occurred.
She was the cause of that humiliation, and of every disagreeable sensation that he was experiencing.
I know it may seem like officiousness, but I would try and not be disagreeable to you.
We never love those who tell us disagreeable truths, even though it be for our good.
A man does not always want a moping complaining woman hanging about him; and she had a deuced unpleasant way of forcing herself upon me when it was particularly disagreeable to have her do so.
Fordham looked at him with a certain haughty offence: he had made the offer as though it were a very disagreeable expedient, but resented instantly the tacit neglect of it shown by his companion.
There is a reason for everything, to be sure; but how things that are hard and disagreeable are always to be called for the best, I can't conceive.
To prevent the chance of any such disagreeable occurrences, knock an old barrel to pieces and build yourself a supply of toboggans with the staves.
Any disagreeable odor proceeding from their cages simply means neglect on the part of the keeper of the zoo.
A more disagreeable affair at the moment was the description, in the Epistle on Taste, of Canons, the splendid seat of the Duke of Chandos.
His sense of the ludicrous saved him from the disagreeable ostentation of powers which were never applied to express bitterness of feeling or to edge angry satire.
But the bitterness of the attack is disagreeable when we add that Pope paid Halifax high compliments in the preface to the Iliad, and boasted of his friendship, shortly after the satire, in the Epilogue to the Satires.
Addison was too condescending with his pretty pupils; but under Pope's courtesy there lurks contempt, and his smile has a disagreeable likeness to a sneer.
