Miss Gay gives a plain unvarnished story of life in Georgia during the war, and of the many sad sacrifices to which the families of Southern people were subjected.
The creaky bed, theunvarnished walls, and the rusty alarm clock, that ticked insistently, all added to the sense of flaccidity.
He meant it for consolation; but this unvarnished statement of the very best that could by possibility befall poor Richard seemed only to deepen his despondency.
To us who knew him these virtues were conspicuous; by others, they may be gathered from the unvarnished story of his life as it is told in the foregoing pages.
It still further reduced her towards unvarnished simplicity in her manner to him.
How could she, when her feeling had been cautiously fed and developed by her brother Louis's unvarnishedexhibition of Swithin's material position in the eyes of the world?
He will undoubtedly write me in return, and naturally I shall tell him the plain, unvarnished truth, together with several items of interest concerning Mignon La Salle which cannot be withheld from him.
Mignon affected a sadness which she was far from feeling at this unvarnished statement.
Above all other virtues he reverenced and admired stern unvarnished truth, and this strong element of her reticent nature had powerfully attracted him.
I am merely stating unvarnished facts, that you may thoroughly understand into what fertile soil your scattered grains of learning fall.
There are a great many valuable truths taught us in the ancient myths, and for rugged unvarnished wisdom commend me to the Scandinavian.
The Utilitarians demurred to religion as an ultimate authority in morals, and substituted the plain unvarnished criterion of utility.
Or they may be produced without commentary, sifting, or omissions, as the unvarnished presentation of a man's private life and particular features which a candid friend commits to the judgment of posterity.
The author has made no attempt at fine writing, and has sought only to present a "plain, unvarnished tale," in keeping with the unostentatious simplicity of the subject of his pages.
But he felt quite at home, as he always did--this unvarnished gentleman from the sea--and asked for what he wanted.
He once told Wanda that he had seen men and women do much worse than throw their lives away, which was probably the unvarnished truth.
I have told them a plain unvarnished tale, which while it may encourage them to be bold in their country's cause, may also, acquaint them with what they owe to the generation that has just preceded them.
Nothing is aimed at but a plain unvarnished statement of facts, a sober description of scenes, in the principal part of which the writer himself was an actor.
The unvarnished schoolroom records of Greek and Roman warfare had been as delightful to him as the finest passages of a Macaulay or a Froude, a Thiers or Lamartine.
How can I help liking them better than a plain, unvarnished American boy?
I know you're too sensible to look at those addle-pated dandies, but I wish you'd promise not to like anybody better than THIS plain, unvarnished American boy.
But I was speaking of the natural, unvarnished woman we all enjoy and are not afraid of.
Owing to the grossly inaccurate and highly coloured reports which have been circulated from time to time regarding the life and treatment of prisoners of war, the story has been set out in a plain unvarnished form.
I was bitterly mortified to learn its fate when within a stone's throw of safety, because it contained incidents of all descriptions set out in regular sequence, and in a plain unvarnished manner.
It is a fact, however, that varnished glass is rarely if ever so good as unvarnished glass at its best.
The slightest whiff of ordinarily damp air will, however, enormously reduce the insulating power of the glass, so that unvarnished glass surfaces must be kept for apparatus which is practically air-tight.
And if I don't know more about plain unvarnished human nature than you, I miss my guess!
The raw and unvarnished wood, with the parts between the threads swollen from damp, begrimed and repeatedly washed by repairers, presents anything but a pleasing spectacle even when the interior of a fine "Strad" or Joseph is laid bare.
It was almost as though he were fighting against some impulse within himself and the fierceness of the struggle had wrung from him that quick, unvarnished protest.
He wound up by presenting me with an unvarnished summary of his opinion of the likes of me.
In these present articles my intention is to tell the British public the bare unvarnished truth culled from documentary evidence at my disposal, and to leave them to form their own conclusions.
It is contained in a plain report in cold unvarnished language in an official Russian report which is before me.
