He confided to his mother that he must be an unsociable beast--it was jolly to be away from everybody who could talk about the things people did talk about.
Though an unsociable recluse, he was a man of the most exemplary charity.
It pleased him also to dwell and work alone, partly because he was of an unsociable disposition, and partly to prevent men becoming acquainted with his secrets.
They seemed to be unsociable beings, for they also stalked in solemn silence.
They very strongly resemble the birds of night by their unsociable nature and melancholy dispositions, and by the solitary lives they pass in the wildest parts of woods.
It is a quarrelsome and unsociable bird; and if placed in confinement with others, it will undoubtedly maltreat, and perhaps kill them.
I did not speak to him, as he seemed in a rather unsociable mood; but the German told me he was a remarkable sort of character.
I wanted to badly; but, as I said, he seemed to be in an unsociable mood.
I have complained to her of this Behaviour in the gentlest Terms imaginable, and beseeched her not to use him, who desired only to live with her like an indulgent Friend, as the most morose and unsociable Husband in the World.
On Saturday we received many Excuses from Persons who had found themselves in an unsociable Temper, and had voluntarily shut themselves up.
The young lady thought it most unnecessary that Edmund should go off in search of his unsociable cousin, and could not excuse him for deserting her side for such an object.
Oswald grows harder in his manner and more unsociableday by day.
She had found that men could differentiate in a way beyond woman's power and be unsociable if their duty demanded it.
It has rendered men unsociable by duty, and forced them to be inhuman to everyone who thought differently from themselves.
But in their big associations, in the face of free Nature, the unsociableinstincts have no opportunity to develop, and the general result is peace and harmony.
Language, imitation, and accumulated experience are so many elements of growing intelligence of which the unsociable animal is deprived.
The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay.
He had gone aboard her in an unsociable frame of mind, determined to talk to nobody; the success of his errand depended on his silence.
After knowing the security of a home and wife, at past forty I became a secret agent, a spy and a wanderer, a friendless and unfriendly man, unsociable and socially unacceptable.
But what was worst of all, he was naturally unsociableto his great officers in commission with him, despising others and thinking them worthy of nothing in comparison with himself.
They say--one of the young ladies does--that she never saw such an unsociable place as New York; nobody calls.
Of all our passions and appetites, the love of power is of the most imperious and unsociable nature, since the pride of one man requires the submission of the multitude.
The first counsel of the Magi was agreeable to the unsociable genius of their faith, to the practice of ancient kings, and even to the example of their legislator, who had a victim to a religious war, excited by his own intolerant zeal.
For we were obliged after several attempts to give up the idea of founding or maintaining a city of philosophers, notably owing to the incessant trouble caused by the tribe of sociologists who are the most unsociable of mankind.
A page or so further on he is back below his ironical mask again, jesting at the "tribe of sociologists"--the most unsociable of mankind.
You are the most unsociable of your sex,' he added, when I had no answer to make to this.
Since then he has been in one of his taciturn, unsociable moods: nothing pleases him.
Whom, when Time hath made unsociable to others, we become a burden to ourselves: being of no other use than to hold the riches we have from our successors.
