To teach Latin and Greek verse at Brighton College, Cheltenham College, Reading Grammar School, successively, was the extremely uncongenial task imposed upon me by the chances of the universe.
The usual mode, which is literally a partial starvation of the tree by limiting the supplies of crude sap, consists in the use of uncongenial and dwarf-growing stocks, upon which the desired varieties are budded or grafted.
When we speak of dwarfing stocks, we mean such as are so uncongenial as to check the wood-growth; and thus, while producing smaller trees, they have a tendency to early fruitfulness if properly managed.
Hence in speaking of dwarf pear trees, it does not follow that they have been worked on the quince or other uncongenial stock.
Spiritualism, to discuss, not to banter, would be as uncongenial a subject for the Pall Mall or the Saturday as a case of chronic bronchitis for a brilliant public operator.
Neither are such costly and uncongenial deceits necessary to beguile man.
Through those eyes looked a winged soul that did not recognize itself, still less expect recognition from others, but felt only the vague weight and sadness of an uncongenial life.
Some rocks do, indeed, decompose and form soils; but this process would be too slow, unless in moist and warm regions, where it is easier to find a footing for plants than in climes moreuncongenial to their growth.
Very often a person who is uncongenial to us, will, in the surroundings to which she is fitted, be at ease, and perhaps even attractive.
Not long ago I heard a woman say gravely of an uncongenial acquaintance whose friendship had been forced upon her: "She is certainly my familiar friend.
It is not here possible to convey an adequate impression of his fiery spirit, his long heart-hunger, and the magnitude of the loss which a wholly uncongenial marriage must ever mean to such a man.
Still she knew it must be one thing or the other--either a hurry and rush over Europe with uncongenial companions, or a going away to some peaceful retreat as the Countess of Sutherland.
In March 1715 he entered at Oriel College, Oxford, but for some time found it uncongenial and thought of migrating to Cambridge.
It is very hard that you should have to pursue such an uncongenial career.
This atmosphere of intrigue and animosity was not uncongenial to Benvenuto; and as far as words and blows went, he almost always got the best of it.
It seems that Michael Angelo's flight from Rome in 1506 was due not only to his disappointment about the tomb, but also to his fear lest Julius should give him uncongenial work to do.
You at least will not have to live with anyone uncongenial to you.
He was glad to know that for a time at least she was away from the uncongenial surroundings of Rohar and again enjoying life.
Aside from some scoring of the Nibelung dramas, Wagner did little productive work in the uncongenial atmosphere of London.
People who were uncongenial to him have said that he was invariably rude and overbearing.
And thus ended the attempt to induce Wagner to visit a country, which in its state at that time would have been quite as uncongenial to him as London.
But these thoughts are bitter enough even now, for they have not yet gone quite away; and they must be uncongenial enough to the reader; so no more of that, and let me go on with my story.
But in silent gratitude at the end of a voyage, almost equally uncongenial to both of us, and so bitter to one, Harry and I sat on a chest in the forecastle.
Often furnished with a club-hammer, they swung me over the bows in a bowline, to pound the rust off the anchor: a most monotonous, and to me a most uncongenial and irksome business.
And yet, notwithstanding his earnestness and the trouble he took in producing uncongenial operas, he became weary of their flimsy material.
In fact," says an editorial on Uncongenial Clubs, "a man may go to a club to get away from congenial spirits.
And is there any more uncongenial club than the Human Race?
If uncongenial visitors dropped in, I would abuse Nikolay's hospitality by at once turning over on my left side and going to sleep until they had gone.
I do not know; myself would have to be very drunk before I could ignore those uncongenial backs of houses and chimneys, stuck up in the air like the grimy paws of a gutter-brat humanity.
They had now been without one for some time, and she was inexpressibly weary of the uncongenial society of her old husband.
But grammar is perfectly uncongenial matter to me, which my mind absolutely refuses to assimilate.
You may be shut in by an uncongenial occupation and tempted to lose heart and give up your dreams because you can see no way to better yourself.
They are struggling along in an uncongenial environment, railing at the fate which has robbed them of their own.
But a few weeks' experience had shown that they were strange and uncongenial to each other.
An atmosphere of harmony was so necessary to her growth that she seemed to droop and pine in uncongenial environment.
He saw in it the effects of the nervous exhaustion which followed in the wake of uncongenial mental work combined with the stress of financial worries, and withdrew the curb of will.
