Mac 15:3 Then the most ungracious wretch demanded, if there were a Mighty one in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.
It is an ungracious task to heap so much blame upon any one man.
Yet, to the world, we often appear to beungracious people.
Because they have no sense of deliverance themselves, they are apt to be ungracious in relation to others.
At all times the power of these fetters is less effective on the ruler; he can easily cast off what confines him, an ungracious movement of the hand frightens the monitor forever from his side.
The Sovereign was veryungracious to-day," he continued, in a depressed tone.
And the poor Don Modesto resigned himself to report this ungracious message, which would not only offend, but scandalize the mysticism of his hostess.
It would have been ungracious to refuse so constant a suitor, and he was ordered to be in attendance next morning, to proceed towards the lake of Geneva.
It won't be at your cost," she hastened to add in ungracious tones, for Jane was about to interrupt.
Of this we shall presently speak; aware, at the same time, how ungracious will be the words which will admit of a decadence among ourselves.
I fell back, then, upon the woman who has so little malice in her heart that she could not be ungracious to any one.
I don't want to see her," is the unflinching and most ungracious reply.
At the gate, De Courcy mounting his horse, bid his rival good morning, which the other returned with an ungracious bow.
The old gentleman opposite never looked at them, but instantly composed himself to sleep; the old lady in the corner thought she had rarely seen a more amiable and attentive young man, a more ungracious young lady.
Mr. Tapeall was a very stupid old man, weaving his red tape into ungracious loops and meshes, acting with due deliberation.
I shall think with tenderness and delight on his beautiful and smiling countenance and interesting manner until a few years have turned him into an ungovernable, ungracious fellow.
And then certainly the room did seem very empty, and very still; and the clock, which she never heard the rest of the week, kept ticking an ungracious reminder that she was alone.
Full of delight at this ungracious permission, Ellen fled upstairs, and dressing much quicker than before, was soon on her way.
It wrings my honest pride to write you this; but an ungracious request is doubly so by a tedious apology.
Walter had not expected this cold, ungracious reply.
Ungracious as the speech may seem, it cannot be wondered at.
You say you are fond of her, Laura, dear, and it seems very ungraciousfor me to criticise your friend; that is a thing which most of us fail to bear patiently.
The meek and affable Duchess turned out an ungracious and haughty Queen.
The Protector's foreign policy at the same time extorted the ungracious approbation of those who most detested him.
I was not, therefore, touched by the spur of ambition, usually stimulating on such occasions; and yet I ought to stand exculpated from the charge of ungracious or unbecoming indifference to public applause.
Far from such an ungracious state of mind, I have seldom felt more satisfaction than when, returning from a pleasure voyage, I found Waverley in the zenith of popularity, and public curiosity in full cry after the name of the Author.
At length the tall ungainly figure and ungracious visage of Ebenezer presented themselves.
The Italians have an ungracious proverb, Tanto buon che val niente: so good, that he is good for nothing.
At first he only ventured to tone down certain phrases and to delete here and there certain ungracious epithets.
He would get cross, and they would go on exchanging ungracious words and impertinences.
But it was not their fault: it was the fault of their ungracious life, which had made their faces, their doings, and their thoughts ungracious.
There was no reason, because they were stupid enough or ungracious enough to be sad, to want everybody else to be so too and to impose on everybody their decrepit way of living.
