It was not so hard to say to myself that Lord Amberdale was welcome to her, but it was very, very difficult to refrain from adding the unamiable words: "damn him.
I found myself wondering how dear, puritanic, little Elsie Hazzard could have fallen in with two such unamiable wrecks as these fellows appeared to be at first sight.
When first she was approached by timid, tentative questionings revealing this point of view, Betty felt hot and answered with unamiable curtness.
These were the things he was thinking over when he walked up and down the deck in unamiable solitariness.
As early as 1766, in the heats of the Stamp Act, he entered the lists by an unamiable pamphlet, entitled “A Letter from a Merchant in London to his Nephew in North America, relative to the Present Posture of Affairs in the Colonies.
The man who has no prejudices in favour of his own family and his own country is generally an unamiable creature.
This unamiable characteristic was probably much more the result of insular ignorance than of a deep-seated pride.
We also discover among the Anglo-Saxons an unamiable tendency to give nicknames to people from their personal peculiarities.
This laughter of pleasure required very little complication of thought, contained no unamiable feeling, and expressed the mildest sense of the ludicrous.
Take care never to seem dark and mysterious; which is not only a very unamiable character, but a very suspicious one too; if you seem mysterious with others, they will be really so with you, and you will know nothing.
I think biddies are very unamiable creatures," said Miss Grey.
The unamiable nature of the task, of which I am keenly conscious, has probably been a bar to such an undertaking.
And then a mother arrived--a very unamiable person, so it seems, who had been absent a long while.
Any other observer might have seen few but unamiable traits, and have given them a far darker coloring.
Happily it is not so; and those who would conscientiously consult Moore, Parry, and Gamba, must at least give up the idea that this admirable genius was the eccentric and unamiable being he has been represented.
But he rather seems to annoy the minstrel, who finishes at the seventy-third stanza by dismissing him altogether; and from that moment to the end of the canto the wretched and unamiable personage does not reappear.
Said to embody certain mental peculiarities of that ingenious draughtsman, but rather unamiable person, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and anunamiable temper.
These words all indicate anunamiable working and expression of temper.
Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which areunamiable or depressed.
We see none of those circumstances which render poverty anunamiable thing.
And so the epitaph runs on to considerable length, acknowledging the good qualities of the poor woman, but killing each by setting against it some peculiarly unamiable trait.
Are we to accept the unjust and humiliating dogma that the more highly we cultivate feminine intellect, the more un-feminine, unlovely, unamiable the individual certainly becomes?
In literature, savage criticism defeats its own unamiable purpose, by promoting the sale of books it is designed to crush; but unfortunately this law does not often operate in the department of painting.
Mademoiselle Aisse and Mademoiselle de Lespinasse show in various forms the amiable weaknesses of womankind, Madame du Deffand its unamiable strength.
The unamiable but striking and characteristic figure of Madame Roland lives in memoirs which are among the most celebrated of the time.
But Racine was of a peculiar and in many ways an unamiable temper.
Heger is wondrously influenced by Madame: and I should not wonder if he disapproves very much of myunamiable want of sociability.
I told him, as nicely as possible, that this was precisely what I intended to do; and then this apparently contradictory but not unamiable person began to dilate upon the want of respect the Cornish had for antiquity.
So the old people were unamiable and cross to one another, and unamiable and cross to old Hammond, yet always with a certain respect; and the result seemed to be such as treated the old man well enough.
If you felt the intolerable anguish in your head that I do in mine," replied Caliste, "you would think me very unamiable to press you to go.
Lisette deigned not to notice these words of her young sister; but, turning to Caliste, she inquired, "If she really was so very unamiable as to determine to stay from her fete.
Laura retired to her room, grieving to think how unamiable a young girl might be made, by the indulgence of an inordinate passion for dress.
It was painful and revolting to the kind-hearted Brighams to witness the conflict between the vindictive spirit of thisunamiable old man, and the tardy rekindling of his parental feelings.
How is it to be accounted for, that the Malays have so bad a character with the public, and yet that the few who have had opportunities of knowing them well speak of them as a simple and not unamiable people?
