It was my
unmitigated and absolute good fortune, good luck, chance, call it what you will, that brought me through the fires of John Barleycorn.
Noel Vanstone succeeds to his father's property, he is the only human being possessed of pecuniary blessings who fails to inspire me with a feeling of
unmitigated envy.
His marriage seemed an
unmitigated calamity; and he was afraid of going to Rosamond before he had vented himself in this solitary rage, lest the mere sight of her should exasperate him and make him behave unwarrantably.
Now one man to the fore in the snowshoes, and now the other, it was a case of stubborn,
unmitigated plod.
The ship's cook is not a man to look back on his rescue with the feeling of
unmitigated satisfaction which animates his companions in trouble.
Tom felt that pressure of the heart which forbids tears; he had no distinct vision of their troubles as Maggie had, who had been at home; he only felt the crushing weight of what seemed
unmitigated misfortune.
We had left both law and equity on the other side of the Cape; and unfortunately, with a very few exceptions, our crew was composed of a parcel of dastardly and meanspirited wretches, divided among themselves, and only united in enduring without resistance the
unmitigated tyranny of the captain.
"Monsieur Tarzan," he said, "may indeed wish that he had never befriended me, for I can assure him that he has won the enmity of two of the most
unmitigated scoundrels in all Europe.
"Nevertheless, she is not an
unmitigated evil, your Miss Lackland.
"Every particle herself, and never asked a bit of help or advice from anyone," answered Aunt Plenty, folding her hands with an air of
unmitigated satisfaction, for her pupil certainly did her great credit.
The quiet little man, who had just muscle enough to lift a dictionary from the shelf, and just training enough to play the fiddle, so far from being daunted by the rough reception accorded to him, appeared to feel no other sentiment in relation to it than a sentiment of
unmitigated conte mpt.
"You rascal, you
unmitigated rascal," replied Barbicane, "you do not want oxygen to mount to the head.