Silent and morose, but rather disdainful than sad, Philip listened to the babble round him, and observed the ungenial characters with which he was to associate.
Out upon him, to the rag-house with him, hang him--the ungenial soul!
But the age was an unpoetical one, and two of the finest poetical minds of the nation were so dwarfed and weakened by the ungenial atmosphere as to bequeath to posterity nothing more than a few lyrical fragments.
It is indeed a discouraging season, the exact image of the ungenial springs of our natural year.
Lady Lansmere said the last words with a smile, and left an ungenial kiss (the stepmother's kiss) on Helen's bended brow.
No artificial smile, no conventional, hollow blandness, no frivolous gossip, no varnish either of ungenial gayety or affected grace.
Amid the rude but not ungenial influences of its bracing climate, was gradually fostered that gallant race which was destined to give an imperial dynasty to Russia, a nobility to England, and conquerors to every sea-board in Europe.
Ungenial as the air might be, there was in it just a touch, a faint suggestion of spring, and a whisper of spring ran through the bare forest.
Warmth and sunshine were well-nigh unknown, and for weeks together the weather continued as ungenial as it well could be.
It is amusing to learn another result of his ungenial metaphysics.
In this domestic persecution, the son contracted those morose and saturnine habits which in after-life marked the character of the ungenial MENGS.
This cold andungenial weather would, no doubt, materially affect both the quantity and quality of the crop,--the sample only being just fair.
The pain to myself I could have borne; but how could I leave her to all the misery of her bleak, ungenial position?
Before he crosses the Line, the traveller encounters this murky and ungenial weather, which excited the wonder of the early Spanish writers, who expected to find a zone just as torrid as they had found on the Atlantic.
These disadvantages may in years to come be lessened, but in the meantime those who are born with superior talents are born into an ungenial environment, ill-fitted to develop and polish such talents to their own and to the public benefit.
One is surprised that man should have continued to dwell in a land so ungenial when not far off to the east, on the other side of the eastern Cordillera, hot valleys and an abundant rainfall promise easier conditions of life.
Love's rose a host of thorns invests; Cold, ungenial is the clime, Where its honours blow.
And I prayed that I might be honoured to rescue her from theungenial soil and atmosphere to which the machinations of her mother threatened to confine her for the rest of a suffering life.
This perverse poem was the last as well as the first manifestation of an ungenial mood of Mr. Browning's mind.
My fancy is rendered so torpid by my ungenial way of life, that I cannot sketch off the scenes and portraits that interest me; and I am forced to trust them to my memory, with the hope of recalling them at some more favorable period.
After the first shock of her desertion was past, Zelma was conscious of a sense of relief from a weight of daily recurring care and humiliation, the torture of an unloving presence, chill and ungenial as arctic sunlight.
The English climate had always been ungenial to him.
