When the uninviting meal was over, Jack walked outside, and, lighting his pipe, commenced to consider the question of the purchase of the place.
With this meagre consolation Jack proceeded to attack his uninviting breakfast.
It is a rough way through an uninviting country, thinly inhabited, poor in farming lands, and devoid of scenery.
In spite of the place’s uninviting aspect, I welcomed it as a safe refuge from the storm and the night.
So uninviting was the neglected lane that two or three English motorists who arrived about the same time left their cars and walked the mile or so to the Hall.
When we prepare to take our leave, we ask the custodian concerning the road to Lulworth, and he points out the uninviting byway through the fields.
He was an uninviting and exceedingly disreputable old creature.
Uninviting as is the prospect, one is compelled, by the total absence of any alternative, to patronize the proprietor of the latter articles.
You certainly," I agreed, "draw a most uninviting picture.
You want me to give them to Sarah Walker," I said cheerfully one afternoon, as he laid upon my desk some peculiarly uninviting crustacea which looked not unlike a few detached excrescences from his own hands.
It was an uglyuninviting place to look at, with but few visible signs of wealth.
They went on into the main hall and saw a row of uninviting doors, each with some name scrawled on it in pencil.
When they had finished their hot chocolate, too, she glanced out at the uninviting storm and sighed.
With the simple courtesy which was so much a part of him, the latter had thrust his guest into the only chair his uninviting quarters afforded.
He hurried away, and passed down the uninvitingstairs at a run.
He lit the cheap oil lamp on his table, seated himself in the unstable old basket-chair beside his uninviting bed, and settled himself for a third perusal of his letter.
Martino al Monte, the great church of the Carmelites, which, though of uninviting exterior, is of the highest interest.
A dusty road through most uninviting surroundings leads to the Cartuja, or Charterhouse, founded in 1516 by the Great Captain.
They date, it is believed, from the days before the Zirite dynasty, but you will not be tempted to examine them attentively, for the purlieus are of the most uninviting description.
And some, that, like the Winter-Nelis, have been hard and uninviting until all the rest have had their season, get their glow and perfume long after the frost and snow have done their worst with the orchards.
Whatever impression they may produce upon his mind, I trust they will at least convince him that there is some reason for looking into this apparently uninviting subject.
The way lay past the Chapel of the Trinity, and so through many narrow streets to one which seemed the center of a particularly dark and uninviting neighborhood.
It was one of the most bare and uninviting of a dull row, and not even the bright sunshine of the early spring could enliven it much.
It happened to be a rainy day, and cold, on the 30th of July, when we left Augsburg; and the flat fields through which we passed were uninviting under the gray light.
A more uninviting forest to pass the night in I never saw.
After some difficulty I discovered the whereabouts of the Hotel Michaeli, and entering a likhac was driven to a small, and rather uninviting hotel under the shadow of the gilded dome of the Izak Church.
It was a rather tall house, uninhabited apparently, for its lower windows were covered with hoarding, and generally the structure bore a grim, uninviting appearance.
Curley had wicked, little greenish-grey eyes, and their stare was uninviting as he fixed them on his quondam partner.
The houses were uninviting and far apart, the roads and yards were desolate.
At the end of this still another armored door led into a medium-sized room, as bald and uninviting as a dentist's waiting-room.
Then, after gazing in an idle and listless manner about the empty and uninviting hotel reading-room, he decided that it was time for him to go up to his room.
A single walk, however, was enough to dispel such an illusion; and he who thinks with me will never wish to walk again in so uninviting a country.
The climate is splendid, and perfectly healthy; but to my mind its charms are lost by the uninviting aspect of the country.
