I would still be merrily disposed at times; and as my pleasures were (to say the least)
undignified, and I was not only well known and highly considered, but growing towards the elderly man, this incoherency of my life was daily growing more unwelcome.
I am sure, on the other hand, that he was acutely miserable; and he betrayed his sufferings by a perfectly silly and
undignified access of temper, during which he broke his pipe in several pieces, threw his brandy and water in the fire, and employed words which were very plain although the drift of them was somewhat vague.
It suddenly seemed to me that this commonplace, prosaic tea was horribly
undignified and paltry after all that had happened, and I blushed crimson.
It belongs only to the French--though a few other Europeans have elaborated their forms so well as to be able to figure with extreme dignity, and yet be wholly
undignified persons.
But she could not get over the idea that to earn her living was somewhat
undignified, and she was inclined to remind you that she was a lady by birth.
Oh, I know it is absurd, uncalled for, to tell you this;
undignified even," she was almost weeping, "but it makes so much difference to me what you think of--of me." Her voice had grown very low and agitated.
The older men, who thought it
undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile.
His quarrel is not with women--what indeed could be more
undignified?--it is with those who would destroy the natural relationship between the sexes, by modifying either the one or the other with a view to making them more alike.
I don't like this cobbling sort of business --I don't like it at all; it's
undignified; it's not my place.
Here was an
undignified hiatus, if not a finale, to all his schemes, to the even tenor of his self-restrained, purposeful life!
Friendly to all, he reserved his love for Steward alone, though he was not above many an
undignified romp with the fox-terriers.
So my new concept was that manual labour was
undignified, and that it didn't pay.