According to a blithe romancer, he was so distinctively unpleasingin form and feature that he challenged the attention of the king who, in whimsical mood, made him a royal retainer.
How insufferably ugly such uncovered anatomy appears in the scenery of a rich and dainty music-room may be readily imagined by those who have been spared the unpleasing display.
A throat like a ten-stringed instrument, surmounting square shoulders that end in knobs that obtrude above unfilled hollows, is an unpleasing vision that looms up conspicuously too often in opera-box and drawing-room.
The most unpleasing developments result from the wearing of the horn-like trimmings either in velvet or jet.
These cautious proceedings were extremely unpleasing to my cousin, who pretended to be deeply mortified at any thing betokening indifference, and terribly alarmed at the possibility of losing me.
You will see, I am sure, from what I have said, that it is not my wish that you should become mere learned women; mere female pedants, as useless and unpleasing as male pedants are wont to be.
The blood of the victim and the tears of the victor flow together in an unpleasing stream.
The Quarrel Scene shows how low the tone of Cassius has fallen since he has dealt with assassination as a political weapon; and even Brutus's moderation has hardened into unpleasing harshness.
There is at this point plenty of relief to such unpleasing effects: [=iv.
And why am I obliged to change the habits that are dear to me, and assume the manners of a people that are strange, and therefore unpleasing to me?
The Duke ordered a distribution of provisions and wine to the soldiers, and expressed an anxiety about their lodgings, the cure of the wounded, and the health of the army, to which he received only unpleasing answers.
Rise and remount your horse--thanks are unpleasingwhen they are not merited.
All my hope, therefore, rests in the confidence I feel that, when the first unpleasing surprise of this avowal shall have passed away, you .
Mr. Magnus Morrison had by no means recovered the blow given him by this most unpleasing news, when a note from Mrs. Barnaby to the following effect was put into his hands.
Lucy, her sobs making a frequent and unpleasing interruption in her words; I shall break my heart to be sure.
These small half-castes have very sweet voices, with a curious and not unpleasing metallic timbre about them.
James Dalroy smiled his unpleasing smile; but before he could speak, the fallen figure made another movement of the arm, waving vaguely towards the place where the sword fell; then came a moan, and then it managed to speak.
He paused with an unpleasing smile; and Father Brown blinked repeatedly at him, and seemed suddenly to be listening with great attention.
The captious may regard this as an unpleasing trait.
The gallant, starting from his unpleasing reverie, and perhaps considering this as an intentional insult, seized on the young man by the breast, struck him, and threw him from him.
On the way, to divert his thoughts from the more unpleasing matters, the Prince asked his companion how he came to be sober, when the rest of the party had been so much overcome with liquor.
Eviot retired, and presently returned with Bonthron, whom he had rescued from the penance, to him no unpleasing infliction, of a second calabash of wine, the brute having gorged the first without much apparent alteration in his demeanour.
But hark--to divert this angry parley--I hear nounpleasing touch of minstrelsy.
It must be some unpleasing communication indeed, which my Lord of Albany cannot wrap up in honied words," said the Prince.
Sir John Ramorny remained sunk in unpleasing reflections until he began to experience the incipient effects of his soporific draught.
Nay, that we will ourselves discharge," said King Robert, eagerly catching at the hope of a pacific termination of this unpleasing debate.
Can you think it necessary to me, or believe that your letters can be so long as to make them unpleasing to me?
It is beyond a sane effort of the imagination that she could have loved that unpleasing old man Lot.
Also in maneuvering bits of money--as much as might be--from unpleasing men who hung about the dingy play-house.
No unpleasing incident marred a perfect afternoon until tea was served, and the cutter ran to her moorings.
Her manifest distress at an unpleasing discovery won her the sympathy of the deputy Governor of Lagos, his chief having crossed from the island to the mainland only the day before.
How unpleasing were the reflections that arose from this catalogue of criminals and their offences!
Then the good man also saw how nobly, in spite of his wild life, his obstinacy, and the work so unpleasing to him, his nephew always showed the noble impulses inherited from his brave father, and thus Hermon gained the day.
In the effort to be faithful to reality, the fear of making concessions to beauty, he lapsed into ungraceful angularity and a sturdiness which, in my opinion, would be unpleasing even in a mortal woman.
Anton saw at once that "dear Betty" had a nose of parchment, thin lips, and a most unpleasing countenance.
Doris had never worn so unpleasing an aspect to Hadrian as at this instant, in this decisive moment of her life.
For, though I blush to own it, the sight of her was not altogether unpleasing to me; nay, to put it positively, I had come almost to feel an affection for her.
In addition to this unpleasing intelligence, he learned that the Austrians and Prussians were pressing forward, as far as Weimar and Laugensalza, so that he was once more in danger of being completely surrounded.
Consultations with his best generals, which ended without adopting any fixed determination, varied those unpleasing reveries.
