What ought to have been fairy, joyful, natural, was instead uncomely to the verge of the grotesque.
The uncomely doors and windows seemed almost like mouths that had uttered the words themselves, and on the upper floors at that very moment I saw two maids in the act of closing them again.
The Blind Girl is a poor and uncomely vagrant halting by the road-side, wrapping her shawl round her child- guide, who nestles against her in the April weather.
Then said Thorkill: "In good truth, I do not remember ever to have seen a household with more uncomely noses; nor have I ever come to a spot where I had less mind to live.
And though he deemed it uncomely to inaugurate his first campaign with a wedding, yet, moved by gratitude for the preservation of his safety, he kept his promise.
This did not prevent her making a long détour the next day to avoid meeting the uncomely old musician on the street and being obliged to recognize him publicly.
There was nothing now between them but the real issue in all itsuncomely bareness.
There was nothing there but a lump of uncomely flesh.
Now by uncomely parts he means the baser members, and by comely parts the beautiful members.
The cyclone of 1892 tore down two great blocks of stone buildings in the center of Port Louis--the chief architectural feature--and left the uncomely and apparently frail blocks standing.
She was uncomely to any eyes but mine, and I would not subject her to unkind criticism.
And Mr. Ashton tramped down-stairs, followed by the assistant, who glanced back at Dorian with a look of shy wonder in his rough, uncomely face.
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
You must then beware of these fowle and uncomely behaviours, asmuche, nay, more then of those other, I have spoken all this while.
For, in my conceite, these base wordes that come out of the Tavernes, bee verie uncomely for suche a worthy discourse.
Her thin, witty, and malicious lips bespoke all the rancour and perverse anger stored in the heart of this uncomely creature, whom the thought of her uncomeliness enraged.
They knew everything that went on at the Duvillards, the affectionate friendship of the uncomely Camille and the handsome Gerard, the seeming idyll beneath which lurked the most awful of dramas.
Everywhere was a prospect of raw faces and figures, which Charity had deliberately made as uncomely as possible by clownish garb and simple toilet.
The poverty of Poplar is abject, and, to that extent, picturesque in its frankness; there is no painful note of uncomely misery about it.
Also, it is an uncomely thing for any man in his profession to be in and out with the times; and to do this when winked at by men, that they would not do if they frowned.
And, indeed, it becomes a gospel minister to have his uncomely parts covered with that grace which by the gospel he preached unto others.
It was the old picture, save for the uncomely modifications of our modern costume.
Marshal Villars is celebrated by a very uncomely obelisk on his battle-field of Denain near by, and General de Dampierre by a column in the public square of Anzin itself.
He saw them face to face, and he said their faces were uncomely to the last degree.
