On the whole it is an unpleasant foul stream running between poisonous banks, and as such it seems to have been regarded by the Jews and other Syrians.
A flavour of personality makes them not unpleasant reading.
Unpleasant things like this did not hurt a person unless they got "out"--that is, unless they became a scandal in the courts or the newspapers.
The respect which was felt for him personally made it difficult to inform him of the fact that he was excommunicated, but Akiba once more undertook the office of conveying the unpleasant news.
Justus of Tiberias, his former enemy, had meanwhile written his history of the Judaean wars, in which he represented Josephus as an enemy to the Romans, a statement which might have led to unpleasant consequences.
Fourthly, by an intellectual trick, we may associate gratification with an unpleasant idea, as we have associated sexual gratification, for example, with the idea of indecency.
From time to time the police make a skirmish there, but an unpleasant element of danger is still connected with a visit to this section of the city's heart, which deters most people from making the attempt.
I offer it to you brand new, as a slight illustration of a very unpleasant subject.
Last year's signs of them were provokingly abundant; and wood being extremely scarce, we found an admirable substitute in bois de vache, which burns exactly like peat, producing no unpleasant effects.
He began to conceive a sort of attachment to our old camping ground; yet it was time to change our quarters, since remaining too long on one spot must lead to certain unpleasant results not to be borne with unless in a case of dire necessity.
Constantly unpleasant words passed between them on subjects of so little importance that Ann wondered, when she was alone, why they should have been said at all.
He was showing himself in a new light, and Horace noted that the young lawyer's face bore sarcasm and unpleasant cynicism.
It will be unpleasant all around, and, as your father is away, it is rather dangerous to connect your office with low people.
Mr. Baxter replied: "As I said before, it is the most unpleasant part of my duties, and it occupies a very great deal of time which probably might be better spent.
Meaning that I only wish to expedite a business which I think is unpleasant to you, but which I believe you have undertaken from unselfish devotion.
He looked like a man who had never in his life smiled, yet his face was not an unpleasant face altogether, though there was much in it to give the observer pause.
He was a type of the true American man, the individual who trusts in himself; an unpleasant person very often, but the most essentially male creation in Nature.
At times he appeared absent-minded, and at times he wore a gloomy but triumphant look, as though some business which had unpleasant memories attached to it had at last been settled to his satisfaction.
Hollows in the earth, which contained a muddy remnant of the well-filled pools of the rainy season, were their sole dependence--a scanty andunpleasant supply.
Amidst the admiration and enjoyment which all felt in the contemplation of this novel spectacle, an unpleasant conviction crossed the minds of even the most enthusiastic, that they were indeed, as Wilkins had remarked, "in a fix.
This would be an unpleasant crisis, since it was plain, from the character of his master, that there would be destruction in refusing, while his honour told him that there would be disgrace in complying.
Fair cousin of Orleans," said Louis with sullen gravity, "since I must speak on sounpleasant an occasion, it is needless for me to remind you that my sense of your merits had led me to propose for you a match into my own family.
The Monarch's first address was an unpleasant one: "So, Oliver, your fine schemes are melting like snow before the south wind!
This caused a very unpleasant sensation in the meeting, and an elucidation of the business was demanded by some of the party.
I suppose, the first he had ever heard;-he was standing exactly facing me; this is at all tines an unpleasant position for a shot.
It was remarkably unpleasant to be dragged into a row by the conduct of these brutal traders, with whom I had nothing in common, and who, should a fight actually occur, would be certain to behave as cowards.
They gave us the unpleasant intelligence that the M'was occupied the country in advance, and that we should not be able to pass them on our present route, as they were close to that spot.
It was on account of a somewhat unpleasant matter.
It is myunpleasant duty to point out to you the things that will happen if you fail.
You'd live there--but you'd always be drowning and you'd find it slightly unpleasant for the next few thousand years!
Indeed, there would be danger of unpleasant results from misunderstanding.
A ladies' luncheon can often be truly and aptly compared to a poultry-yard, the shrill cackle being even more unpleasant than that of a large concourse of hens.
We lack almost entirely the corn and the oil; and the wine in our voices is far more inclined to the sharp, unpleasant taste of very poor currant wine, than to the rich, spicy flavor of fine wine from the grape.
But, unfortunately, if you do not realize it now and relax into Nature's ways, she will knock you hard against one of her stone walls, and you will rebound with a more unpleasant realization of nervousness than is possible now.
I can hardly warn readers too often against the possibility of an unpleasant reaction, if the relaxing is practised too long, or gained too rapidly.
Not to lead an exemplary life involves the unpleasant risk of reappearing in some debased form, and also delays the realisation of the final absorption.
But it is the cobra which is really an unpleasant creature to have any dealings with.
Towards the close of the rainy season flies become numerous almost everywhere, but especially in a native city like Poona, and they are an unpleasant indication of its unsavoury condition.
The echoes of his hard, unpleasant laugh reached Anna on her way upstairs.
I trust that no unpleasant rumours will be circulated before the election, at any rate.
It was unpleasant while it lasted, but it is over--and my toasted scones are delicious.
Slowly a mirthless and very unpleasant smile dawned upon his face.
It does not seem to have been any fault of Mrs. Gaylord's that she had her unpleasant ride, and I cannot think her foolish in the choice she has made.
Phebe shrugged her shoulders, and the old unpleasant look came back to her face.
Yet her cheek burned and she found it difficult to throw aside the unpleasant incident or make herself believe that George St. Clair, who was unusually attentive to her, did not also remember.
It is an unpleasant task to be a drag on other people's amusement, and both Donald and Gipsy were very keen on making the ascent.
Yes, it's decidedly unpleasant to lose one's clothes.
It's an unpleasant business from beginning to end.
They were already beginning to work for it, and Gipsy, who would gladly have helped, made the unpleasant discovery that it is impossible to make bricks without straw, or in other words that she had no materials.
In the first place, though her father's letter had relieved all anxiety about her school fees and general expenses, and removed her from her former most unpleasant position, it did not give any clue to his present whereabouts.
