And by the sheer beauty of her soul, and the purity of her vision, she wins from barren and unpromising surroundings those rewards of high courage.
I don't fight women," muttered de Spain, maintaining the deceit and regarding both with an unpromising visage.
With such bait I have seen the born angler (my grandfather was one) take a noble string of trout from the most unpromising waters, and on the most unpromising day.
This was probably the first variety cultivated, though our native species would seem as unpromising a subject for the garden as club-moss or wintergreens.
A moreunpromising family was never reared even in New Mexico.
The same boldness that made the elder Hawthorne accept and use without hesitation the most unpromising characters, and make them not only acceptable but attractive, belongs to the younger.
How Julia Page, reared in rather unpromising surroundings, lifted herself through sheer determination to a higher plane of life.
The middle man of the group, with a thin red face and very blue eyes, was chewing tobacco in an unpromising way.
Yet have I known some unpromisingtyros mature into very capable workmen.
Under an unpromising exterior--a stocky build and fiery red head--there glowed a brave, generous and tender spirit.
Unpromising as he seemed, this fellow had a spirit that fitted him for great achievements, and which, under other circumstances, might have made him a hero.
It seems he was a better judge than I was myself, for a more unpromising set of wretches, as to looks, I never saw grouped together.
In composing it, he chose a very unpromising ground to work upon, and he has prided himself in adorning it with all the graces, the precision, and brilliancy of style.
In the following month (March 1790) this unpromising incident was succeeded by an aberration which no rational man will now undertake to defend.
While he was still a student at the Temple, or a writer for the booksellers, he picked up a curious creature in the park, in such unpromising circumstances that he could not forbear to take him under his instant protection.
The plague cut short his unpromising career in his twenty-fourth year.
Unpromising though it had appeared outwardly, yet within it he believed he had found a friend--a friend who was also an enigma.
It can save sinners, just because it knows how to make saints--and it has made them out of jolly unpromising material at times, there's the comfort of it.
John Armstrong, whose 'Art of Preserving Health,' under an unpromising title, really contains splendid things.
Thus musing, thus muttering, he plodded up the road, his insignificant figure an unpromising break in the monotonous white of the wintry landscape.
What can be more unpromising at first sight, than the idea of a young man disguising himself in woman's attire, and passing himself off for a woman among women; and that for a long space of time?
Wherever the European landed in America he looked first of all for mines, as Frobisher did on the unpromising shores of Labrador.
The trade of a tinker seems an unpromising preparation for a literary career.
All things considered, the meal passed over with less embarrassment than might have been expected from a tete a tete between two novices like us, who had parted in the unpromising manner we had done the night before.
As to the latter, a more unpromising disciple never figured on a slate; but, to give the devil his due, Marc Antony was even as his enemies allowed, the best boxer of his inches in the parish.
Upon my soul, on a darker night or more unpromising weather, men never went on a cutting-out party.
In spite of the unpromising prospects various attempts were made to sound the views of the Prussian Government with regard to an eventual peace on the basis of integrity of territory.
Even the most unpromising places have some compensation in them, for the beauty of the distant mountains was worth seeing, and the natural cured grass of the prairies has wonderful sustaining power.
Saugus was as forlorn as a muddy beach at low tide, but some of us made the most of our unpromising surroundings.
The somnolence of Sunday and of nature hung over all, giving little promise for the twenty-four hours we were to stay there; yet unpromising as it all seemed, we passed there a very enjoyable time.
He was the most insignificant and unpromising (not to say despised) of all his kindred, the tag end, as it were, of the aristocratic and once powerful families from which he had descended.
Panjoo is a favourite objective, for it may be approached from various directions, each pleasant, but as a resort for a crocodile it is about as unpromising a locality as could be imagined.
