The idea of Marner's money kept growing in vividness, now the want of it had become immediate; the prospect of having to make his appearance with the muddy boots of a pedestrian at Batherley, and to encounter the grinning queries of stablemen, stood
unpleasantly in the way of his impatience to be back at Raveloe and carry out his felicitous plan; and a casual visitation of his waistcoat-pocket, as he was ruminating, awakened his memory to the fact that the two or three small coins his forefinger encountered there were of too pale a colour to cover that small debt, without payment of which the stable-keeper had declared he would never do any more business with Dunsey Cass.
Our plain manner of living, our small rooms and few domestics, and the little we see of the world, must make Hunsford extremely dull to a young lady like yourself; but I hope you will believe us grateful for the condescension, and that we have done everything in our power to prevent your spending your time
unpleasantly."
The schoolmaster and his consort passed their time
unpleasantly enough that evening, but something or other happened before the next morning, which a little abated the fury of Mrs Partridge; and she at length admitted her husband to make his excuses: to which she gave the readier belief, as he had, instead of desiring her to recall Jenny, professed a satisfaction in her being dismissed, saying, she was grown of little use as a servant, spending all her time in reading, and was become, moreover, very pert and obstinate; for, indeed, she and her master had lately had frequent disputes in literature; in which, as hath been said, she was become greatly his superior.
A great many ladies talked then, and several of them talked all at once, and even more loudly and more
unpleasantly than before.
This is all true--but I have not heard of any student who DID decline; to decline and still remain in the corps would make him
unpleasantly conspicuous, and properly so, since he knew, when he joined, that his main business, as a member, would be to fight.
This strange blending of odours consisted of something faintly and
unpleasantly aromatic, mixed with another underlying smell, so unutterably sickening that he threw open the window, and put his head out into the fresh air, unable to endure the horribly infected atmosphere for a moment longer.
"I must explain to you," said the major, "that, fully confiding in the signature of the Abbe Busoni, I had not provided myself with any other funds; so that if this resource had failed me, I should have found myself very
unpleasantly situated in Paris."
When he received the letter of complaint from the banker's wife, he tore it up and laughed
unpleasantly. For some reason he thought of his own wife as he tore up the letter.
When I've made up my mind that I can't afford to buy a tempting dog, I take no notice of him, because if he took a strong fancy to me and looked lovingly at me, the struggle between arithmetic and inclination might become
unpleasantly severe.
With an affectation of respect which evidently struck Alexander
unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted.
As all was thus suddenly revealed to me I laughed
unpleasantly at myself, for, on my soul, I had been thinking well of Mary of late.
If he refuses to listen to the lecture and goes on the war path, then,
unpleasantly for me, I assure you, I shall be compelled to thrash him and his village, first: and, next, I shall triple the fine he must pay and lecture the law into him a trifle more compendiously."
unpleasantly - in an unpleasant manner; "he had been unpleasantly surprised"