Letterblair's view; but put into words by this selfish, well-fed and supremely indifferent old man it suddenly became the Pharisaic voice of a society wholly absorbed in barricading itself against the
unpleasant.
`The
unpleasant sensations of the start were less poignant now.
Every one is more apt to hear an
unpleasant rumor than those whom it immediately affects.
A conspicuous, and it is hope not
unpleasant, feature of the book is its abundant illustrative quotations from eminent poets, chief of whom is that learned and ingenius cleric, Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J., whose lines bear his initials.
Both these pictures were very
unpleasant, and even more so was a third picture, of husband and wife and friend; and the married people glancing at each other as though they were content to let something pass unquestioned, being themselves possessed of the deeper truth.
But these
unpleasant things existed only in a few remote parts of the Land of Oz.
You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more" (this nickname, bestowed on Vera by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), "and your greatest pleasure is to be
unpleasant to people!
The thought that he might, and very probably would, die that night occurred to him, but did not seem particularly
unpleasant or dreadful.
And, lastly, he inveighed against Minerva because she had not contrived iron wheels in the foundation of her house, so its inhabitants might more easily remove if a neighbor proved
unpleasant. Jupiter, indignant at such inveterate faultfinding, drove him from his office of judge, and expelled him from the mansions of Olympus.
I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deliquescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an
unpleasant thing,--the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.
And, by-the-by, you had better not invite her any more on that account, as I wish her to find her situation as
unpleasant as possible.
One was very
unpleasant, from a merchant who was buying a forest on his wife's property.