Generally, the first drawings are unformed and confused, and the teacher should ask the child what he wished to draw, and should write it underneath the design that it may be a record.
Those whose clay work remains unformed and indefinite will probably need the direct revelation of the directress, who will need to call their attention in some material manner to the objects around them.
There is something gigantic and unformed in the former two; but in the latter, every thing assumes its due place and proportion, and the whole mature powers of his mind are displayed in admirable equilibrium.
The fat, unformed schoolboy was now a slender and graceful young man.
All we require for the demonstration of our theory, is a little bit of protoplasm at the beginning of things and a mass of elemental matter in an unformed state.
What an infinite distance between an unformed stone, an animal, a star, a statue, and the abstracted Deity, which theology hath clothed with attributes under which it loses sight of him itself!
Then God made light, the unformed material of which He had created in the beginning.
In an unformed hand a little princess thanks him for a photograph, and says, "I am so glad to have seen you at Windsor, and will try and remember you all my life.
Some one else is "a sensitive man, given beyond most men to speak out his innermost and perhaps unformed thoughts, and thereby to put himself at a disadvantage.
Beside her, Eugenia Laurence, lovely as she was, rose to his mind's eye as an unformed child.
Herschell's great reflector, and were, accordingly, still regarded by him as masses of unformed matter, not yet condensed into suns.
Nowhere have I seen unformed sheepish boys, nowhere the surliness, awkwardness, ungraciousness, and uneasy proud bashfulness, I have seen in the best companies in England.
This moral atmosphere which enveloped her was so evident that even the dulled and warped sensibilities of Devil Marston, at their best but unformed and sickly fungi, recognized it, and trembled before it.
And where intellect is not present, or but little present, mind consists of feelings that are unformed or but little formed.
She looked what she felt--a very stiff and unformed specimen of girlhood.
Prissie held out her long, unformed hand; Miss Oliphant clasped it between both her own.
He took one of the girl's thin unformed hands between his own.
It had to take hold of the consciences of men, it had to equip itself with still unformed organisations.
The first untried, unformedfeeling had been so coarsely handled in me, a child.
In the eyes of those charming ladies I was still the little unformed creature whom they at once liked to pet, and with whom they could play as though he were a little doll.
Woltereck is of opinion that the ova were still unformed at the time the parents were put back, and the influence of the favourable conditions upon the unformed ova he speaks of as a "prae-induction.
I have no right to intrude upon you, unasked, the unformed notions which are floating like clouds, or gathering to more solid consistency, in the modern speculative scientific mind.
I have no right to intrude upon you unasked the unformed notions which are floating like clouds, or gathering to more solid consistency in the modern speculative mind.
While the man said to himself, with the more ponderous indirectness of the male,--"That woman is not quite the influence that an unformed girl should have about her.
Outnumbering those who charged many times, it was not in savage nature to face that unformed oncoming motley of howling, bloodthirsty maniacs.
For the first time, to his mind came a vague unformed suggestion, not of fear, but near akin, as to this lonely prairie wilderness, and the red man its child.
Thereafter Meredith lay still, with closed eyes, sick with an unformed sense of disaster.
He sat motionless and upright, scanning the seeming limitless expanse, and perhaps in that moment some dim, unformed appeal went up from him to the Unknown which steels the hearts of men to supreme effort.
Paul, in the meantime, worked like five men all day, with the unformed idea in the back of his brain that there was something he must do at seven o'clock.
The unformed thought crystalized--he wanted to talk to Bob.
