But she did not want to appear
unamiable and uninterested, so she had brought forth newspapers, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and under Madame Ratignolle's directions she had cut a pattern of the impervious garment.
They are conscious of looking very
unamiable, I suppose, and therefore hate to be seen."
And it was quite true that if Hetty had been plain, she would have looked very ugly and
unamiable at that moment, and no one's moral judgment upon her would have been in the least beguiled.
'I believe it is natural for our
unamiable sex to dislike the creatures,' replied I; 'for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.'
Showing who the amiable lady, and her
unamiable maid, were.
There were men, too, of a sturdier texture of mind than his, and endowed with a far greater share of shrewd, hard iron, or granite understanding; which, duly mingled with a fair proportion of doctrinal ingredient, constitutes a highly respectable, efficacious, and
unamiable variety of the clerical species.
On the defendant's part there had been an attempt, though insufficiently sustained, to blast the plaintiff's character, and a plea, in mitigation of damages, on account of her
unamiable temper.
Though it was unintelligible why he had told it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pavlovna and the others appreciated Prince Hippolyte's social tact in so agreeably ending Pierre's unpleasant and
unamiable outburst.
Jacobs's academy, who was considered a very
unamiable character, and was much hooted after by public-spirited boys solely on the ground of his unsatisfactory moral qualities; so that Tom was not without a basis of fact to go upon.
His features, keen and regular, with an aquiline nose, and piercing black eyes; his high and wrinkled forehead, and long grey hair and beard, would have been considered as handsome, had they not been the marks of a physiognomy peculiar to a race, which, during those dark ages, was alike detested by the credulous and prejudiced vulgar, and persecuted by the greedy and rapacious nobility, and who, perhaps, owing to that very hatred and persecution, had adopted a national character, in which there was much, to say the least, mean and
unamiable.
The Vicar received him with his usual, not
unamiable indifference.
As for Lucy Steele, she considered her so totally
unamiable, so absolutely incapable of attaching a sensible man, that she could not be persuaded at first to believe, and afterwards to pardon, any former affection of Edward for her.