I despaired of making my jingle tell in so large and unfamiliar a company.
All these causes taken together account for an unfamiliardepression that creeps into the Journal.
It was no light business for Trebians to form an opinion; the mere fact of a public functionary with an unfamiliar title was enough to give them pause, as a premise that was not to be quickly started from.
He turned to face the split wheel and the unfamiliar pedals and watched himself work the controls.
He slammed it through the unfamiliar gears as he sped back to the city.
Loneliness was better than the loss of self in the reek and pressure of an unfamiliar throng.
He walked with a deliberate and precise air, very slowly, and his legs worked as if the earth were to them an unfamiliar element.
No sooner had he passed than the wind brought him from this dense hiding-place a pungent, unfamiliar scent.
When they had returned, and through lunch and after, a not unfamiliar stubborn silence settled over Fanny.
Above the door hangs the sign board, upon which has been depicted a vast animal of unfamiliar species.
Thence still back he harked, following through an unfamiliar district his stimulated recollections of the way they had come from that preposterous wedding.
On a swing shelf was a row of books unfamiliarto Gopher Prairie: Mosher editions of the poets, black and red German novels, a Charles Lamb in crushed levant.
It was a smart suit with lines unfamiliar to the dragging yellow and pink frocks of the town.
The world of hunting and camping-outfits and fishing-tackle was unfamiliar to her, and in Kennicott's interest she found something creative and joyous.
She was trying to feed her illusion of adventure by staring at unfamiliar houses .
He suffered an unfamiliar and painful embarrassment, but struggled on, and his thoughts cleared themselves like a brook by flowing.
The visitors did not know at all what to expect in this unfamiliar place, but could not have been astonished or awed by anything else half so much as by the inexplicable silence which prevailed.
What, however, would this passage in Gray's "Elegy" convey to one unfamiliar with English history?
It is more of an affront, indeed, to intimate that a man is unfamiliarwith Shakespeare than to accuse him of having foully done to death his grandmother.
During the night and immediately on waking up she had (sic) an apparition of a strange- looking man in mediaeval costume, a figure by no means agreeable, and which seemed altogether unfamiliar to her.
Being quite unfamiliar with the art of hut-building, and in a frail physical state, I found the work perplexing and most laborious, simple and light as it all was.
And when night had fallen, it was a dismal experience to wake up and see the inside of the tepee full of unfamiliar shapes in the glimmer of the moon.
The boy's sudden action had certainly saved their lives; for the wolves had recognized in him a mysterious power which, unfamiliar as it was, claimed kinship with the pack.
As he turned away, to continue his journey, his eyes were troubled as if they were seeking an unfamiliar trail.
But the other shape was as unfamiliar as it was unexpected--that of a human being.
Meumann thinks the lawyer element of the second is so unfamiliar to children as to render that part of the test unfair.
If the room contains a number of unfamiliar objects, such as psychological apparatus, pictures on the walls, etc.
A man who would be ashamed to be wholly unfamiliar with modern or classical literature ought to be equally ashamed to be wholly unfamiliar with the literature of the Hebrews.
Further west is Loxwood, on the edge of a little-known tract of country, untroubled by railways, the most unfamiliar village in which is perhaps Plaistow.
He noticed one afternoon (probably on a Sunday, when farmers are most noticing) an unfamiliar patch of wheat growing in a hedge.
It was indeed a sound but seldom heard and wholly unfamiliar to those beside the stack save one.
She already imagined herself creeping off to join him at the station, sitting beside him in the train, and then rolling away, past Marazion, into the great unfamiliar world which lay beyond.
Presently, in feeling for his keys, his fingers touched an unfamiliar substance in his pocket.
Nor could he fail to realise that at a single step he had attained to a new and unfamiliar status in the community.
In his stead there stood an unfamiliar presence, with smooth-shaven chin and knock-about clothing.
He bathed his sore and swollen face himself with warm water, and swore at the stiffness and itsunfamiliar contours.
Such celerity of movement was unfamiliar to both Banks and Stanton, and on the night of the 22nd neither the Secretary nor the general had the faintest suspicion that the enemy had as yet passed Harrisonburg.
This quiet gentleman, who came and went unnoticed, who had nothing to say, and was so anxious to avoid observation, was a type of soldier unfamiliar to the volunteers.
If they have lost their order, and the men find themselves under strange officers, with unfamiliar faces beside them, the counterstroke falls with even greater force.
I neglect to copy out the unfamiliar letters; but there can be little doubt that they record the successful ascent of Dr.
The aspect and dress of these savages were as unfamiliar to the Armenians as their mode of conducting war.
And there wild-flowers, whose chill hues the eye would have scarcely distinguished the day before, now glittered forth in blooms of unfamiliar beauty.
He was wholly unfamiliar with any form of introspective inquiry, any analysis of a mental state.
Insects, preserved by the bark, propagated themselves in new surroundings, and seeds drifting on the waves, or clinging to roots and fibres, wreathed unfamiliar shores with exotic flowers.
The native cuisine still includes the unfamiliar Malay delicacy of flying fox cooked in spice, and the hereditary skill in hunting finds endless satisfaction in forests abounding with deer, wild pig, and edible birds.
Powers of observation and comparison were still untrained and untried; superstition was rife, and a necromantic origin was frequently ascribed to the unfamiliar products of the mystic East.
