英语词汇“uncongenial”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

People too firmly rooted to the center of their lives find such questions uncongenial at best, quite distasteful at worst. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staphylococci live all over us, and seem to have adapted to conditions in our skin that are uncongenial to most other bacteria. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slant and Pomp are often my companions; each of us finds the company of the others not uncongenial. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Those who found the team research Lawrence pioneered uncongenial simply moved on, but they were a distinct minority. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was an uncongenial existence for someone who had been raised in a stable, close-knit family environment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Joe’s blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care,” and Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it too much to hope that, under Mr. Battle, the formidable Ailey company might try making both its audience and its dancers work through some material that’s uncongenial and perhaps unpopular? Critic?s Notebook: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as Hit Maker 2012-01-03T20:49:03Z

Elegant as the lighting effect is, it forms a strongly patterned background that is uncongenial to any but the most assertive works, including a monumental table and chairs by Robert Therrien. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Before the first decade of Mr. Friedman’s directorship was out, he had grown dissatisfied with the Walker’s unwieldy 1927 neo-Moorish building, an uncongenial home for the avant-garde. Martin Friedman, Whose Vision Shaped Walker Art Center, Dies at 90 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

And second, by writers who wrote politely to decline, most on the grounds that annotating a first edition of one of their works – whatever you take that to entail – was uncongenial to them. Notes on PEN's annotated first edition auction 2013-05-20T10:58:00Z

And hearing-aid users who find live theatre uncongenial are pleasantly surprised to find that cinemas are not the ratty old fleapits they remember, but rather plush places with crisp and booming Sensurround sound. Oscars 2011: We have the success, but what now for British film? 2011-03-01T08:21:30Z

She rejected major theaters that wanted to build her up in uncongenial minor roles, preferring to sing the characters she loved in smaller houses. What’s Keeping One of Opera’s Greatest Sopranos From Singing? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Brandom, whose life’s work relies on the distinction between force and content that Kimhi attacks, admits to finding his former student’s ideas “deeply uncongenial” and “threatening.” Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

But the $250 million Kennedy Center expansion, confined to a small and uncongenial urban footprint, was a significantly more challenging project. Review | Does the Kennedy Center have a vision for its elegant but awkward new annex? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

The first sign was that anyone could be so happy to approach the Javits Center, a vast, uncongenial structure crouching on the most desolate stretch of Manhattan’s far West Side. Inside the passionate “girl-topia” of BookCon: Where authors are rock stars and geek-chic girls rule 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Yet let's consider this admittedly uncongenial possibility: perhaps Trump is onto something. V-E Day plus 75: From a moment of victory to a time of pandemic 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

I have a trick for doing justice to an uncongenial work: “What would I like about this if I liked it?” The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

And about denial of another First Amendment guarantee, freedom of association, which includes the freedom not to associate, through coerced financial support, with uncongenial political organizations. Opinion | The ‘Janus’ ruling is a welcome blow to coerced speech 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Thanks to your fair comprehensive coverage I now know he had a black roommate and a transgender acquaintance, though he was likely uncongenial to sexual minorities. The Dramatic Last Hours as Agents Stalked the Austin Bomber 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

There’s no doubt that many Americans would find Mr. Ilves’s ideas uncongenial, particular his belief that the successful digitization of a society can happen only if digital IDs are mandatory and universal. Report From the Cyberwar Front Lines 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Take courses from professors who will challenge your views, whatever they are, and attend lectures by visiting scholars whose ideas you find uncongenial, because, after all, you may—as any of us may—be wrong. Why I Wanted to Debate Peter Singer 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

But such means are uncongenial to the conservative ideals of limited government and individual freedom. The Conservative Guild 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

One suspects he finds not just Trump but also Cruz so uncongenial that he’d rather see Mrs. Clinton win if either one is the nominee. You May Already Have Lost 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

It not only seeks to censor uncongenial speech but wishes to declare an uncongenial individual ineffable—in effect, to render him an unperson. Chalk and Awe 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

The rebuttal is a substantive one: Republicans seek to avoid an uncongenial change in the balance of the court, just as Democrats did in 1987 and 1991. Confirmation Bias 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

He dismisses arguments he finds uncongenial with phrases like “Are you kidding me?” and “Come on,” and he’s quick to impugn the motives of critics. John Kasich vs. ‘Obscurity’ 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

On campuses, the right of free speech has been supplanted by an entitlement to what Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education calls a right to freedom from speech deemed uncongenial. Childishness on campus 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

And these phenomena are related to campus hysteria about protecting infantilized undergraduates from various menaces, including uncongenial ideas. Punishing parents who deviate from the government-enforced norm 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Women look at the game and conclude not only are they less practiced players at it, but it is deeply uncongenial to them. The false theory of meritocracy: why women lose out 2013-06-24T07:00:12Z

A year later he went to Heidelberg to study law, but finding this uncongenial he passed on to the university of Munich, where he devoted himself to philosophy, history and literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z

It was a weary life to him, shut up half the day in the laboratory, that he detested, in constant association with an uncongenial companion. Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas 2012-04-21T02:00:22.650Z

Like the Empedocles of Matthew Arnold, baffled in the ineffable longing to escape themselves, these bearers of the divine light are haled unwillingly Back to this meadow of calamity, This uncongenial place, this human life. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z

Brown’s appointment, uncongenial to himself, was a stroke of luck for Henley, for whom, as he said, it represented a first acquaintance with a man of genius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z

In a story, as in a voyage, one must occasionally travel with uncongenial companions. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z

How is the uncongenial heart to become a fit bed for the good seed of the Kingdom? The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z

Neither was his work particularly hard or uncongenial. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z

He found that Disraeli was determined to surrender anything rather than power, and he withdrew from the uncongenial companionship. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z

From such uncongenial surroundings Barry made his way to Dublin, and exhibited The Baptism of the King of Cashel by St. Patrick. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z

The subscribers grew testy and dropped off, under the influence of this uncongenial decency exacted from the editor. Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z

But, for a cripple confined to a couple of rooms, and surrounded by uncongenial people, without a single new magazine or a word of the world's gossip, he kept up his spirits wonderfully well. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z

Their plumage often requires a close inspection to appreciate its elaborate beauty; the confinement and fretting seem not uncongenial to their health; and their plumage improves in attractiveness with almost every month. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z

But still, impelled by what must be some sort of patriotism and sense of duty, he accepts his uncongenial part of constitutional King, and strives to do all that the voice of his people demands. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z

After spending a short time in the office of an architect and surveyor, he left this uncongenial region to practise art. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z

With Tuesday began the uncongenial labour of dissolution; for the little house that during the never-to-be-forgotten months had been our headquarters had to be emptied of its contents. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z

The history of literature, however, teaches us the reverse: its most brilliant lights have shone in dark and uncongenial times. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z

"Oh, Blow!" he said, at last, and then, viciously, "Blow!" and so rose and flung away his cigarette end, and pursued his reluctant, dubiating way towards the really quite uncongenial splendours of the Royal Grand.... Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z

After a conviction of the utility of his plan had penetrated the masses of the people, Parliament mutilated it, supplying the exscinded parts with uncongenial inventions of its own. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z

Fighting, however, is not altogether uncongenial to the descendants of our brute progenitors. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z

We believe, however, we are now possessed of its substance, so far as it is possible to admit into any mind matter wholly uncongenial with its structure, its faith, and its hope. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z

A young lady of indifferent nerve, mounted by a male relative on an uncongenial horse, trotted slowly down hill to a high fence to see what was on the other side. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z

Lamartine was an alien of dubious character, and in some respects distinctly uncongenial habits, but Ormsgill had not spared himself to give his comrade that one chance for his life. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z

Clement had never visited the cotton-town before, and on a more commonplace errand he might have allowed himself to be daunted by a turmoil and bustle as new to him as it was uncongenial. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z

How many of God's children have had to live in uncongenial surroundings, and with those who have no sympathy with their faith, from the earliest confessors and martyrs to the present-day converts to the Faith! Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady 2012-02-25T03:00:09.890Z

To us his classification is unsatisfactory, his theory inadequate, his point of view uncongenial. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z

It has its proportion of disciples in every period and in the apparently most uncongenial countries; a full proportion might have been looked for in New England. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z

How shall we extol the genius which in such an uncongenial atmosphere produced those exquisite poems which for a century have been read and loved in every clime? A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z

Mental Model #1: Business as usual: As Hamel points out, traditional management is uncongenial to innovation. What's Your Mental Model Of Innovation? 2012-02-14T16:52:02Z

To offer the apologies of a faithless swain was no more in his line than to be a faithless swain himself; the fleeting relics of Harry's authority had imposed a last uncongenial task. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z

In this atmosphere I was detained two months, and among people very uncongenial both to my tastes and notions of right. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z

They were in truth an uncongenial company, held together by a single link, their eagerness to harass their own government. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z

Once the very covers had seemed to me to answer the pressure of my fingers with a friendly welcome; now I applied myself straightway to the text as to a laborious and uncongenial task. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z

Tudor times were stirring, and the recollection of them uncongenial to Caston's mood. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z

Isobel's hint that he had been a laggard in love banished, in a moment, the uncongenial prudence which he had been enforcing on himself. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z

They, from their side, assumed an attitude of much-distracted bailiffs who have come to perform a necessary but highly uncongenial duty. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z

To him there was nothing uncongenial in it, and he might very properly have been dubbed at the time a "loafer." Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z

It is merely a short cut to the terrace and gardens, besides being a convenient means of avoiding uncongenial visitors. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z

His relations with his younger brother William seem always to have been uneasy, and from an early period they seem to have been wholly uncongenial to each other. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z

But our young friend Philip appears to have found his share of the work uncongenial. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z

He heard the hymn, grasping its impressive analogy while he thought of the strong, brave, patient woman who had upheld his easy-going father at his uncongenial task. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z

I knew Anna at boarding school; I know that she has an excellent disposition; and a husband must needs be very uncongenial to induce her ever to complain of her lot. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z

In fact, the adventure was as unlike Enslee as it was uncongenial to him. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z

A similar courage upheld her in receiving indifferent acquaintance and uncongenial relatives who came to pay visits of condolence. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z

Twelve months spent in studying my comrades convinced me that, though some worthy fellows might be found among them, their society as a whole was uncongenial to my tastes. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z

In our household are two uncongenial dogs, who, in ordinary circumstances, completely ignore each other, and between whom any familiarity would be resented fiercely. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z

In absolutely uncongenial company he would maintain the silence of the tomb. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z

Like another Omphale, she fastened a womanish apron on Hercules, and set him at uncongenial tasks, retrieving butter, milk, salt, and eggs. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z

His fair charmer, Madame de Chevreuse, was forced into uncongenial retirement, which ended in her dramatic escape, dressed up as a man, across the Pyrenees into Spain. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z

But marriage with Mr Morgan opened a way of escape from uncongenial surroundings. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z

The happiest parties sometimes contain uncongenial members: the merriest meetings are only for a very short time. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z

The appalling fashionable and watering-place aspect of the streets and hotels, on the other hand, rendered it uncongenial to quiet travellers, whose strength did not lie in the clothes line. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z

It was an uncongenial company for proclaiming one's poverty. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z

The effort has not been made to put the whole of our argument into these obviously uncongenial terms. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z

It is the purgatory of travellers, where uncongenial spirits mingle together for a time, before they are separated into rich and poor. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z

I never liked the r�le; it is heavy and uncongenial and altogether out of my line. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z

The person whom Maria was marrying was neither more nor less than Manolito Lopez, that most impertinent and uncongenial of urchins! The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z

Or she may develop disagreeable and wholly uncongenial traits. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z

But the little lamp which he had kindled went out in the uncongenial air. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z

Such violent fights are authentically reported at merrymakings of the time, and as the aristocratic leader of such a brawl, Neidhart no doubt would find his subsequent residence among the peasants uncongenial. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z

These uncongenial people had given me a good lesson. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z

Thou dull, crystallised block, I will think of thee, and will remember thy solid virtues, when the uncongenial offices of man shall plague me no more! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z

And with her, pride or anger was always of short duration, the sunny cheerfulness of her nature refusing to harbor such uncongenial guests. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z

And, Grace, even inherited homesteads are sometimes as difficult as uncongenial kin. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z

She was Unitarian, having so been taught, but speculative matters were out of her reach as well as uncongenial with her sphere. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z

Deplorable as such a condition undoubtedly is, it becomes doubly miserable from the cold, uncongenial and unsympathetic atmosphere by which she is surrounded, and the uncared-for neglect with which she is treated ever afterwards. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z

Park found the atmosphere of the camp uncongenial. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z

He foresaw a further and still more difficult period of uncongenial work in front of him. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z

It is unlike anything else in England; uncongenial with the English character, without privacy, destitute of mass, weight, and shadow, unsusceptible of ivy, lichens, or any mellowness from age.—II. Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook 2011-10-06T02:00:33.843Z

Some time before the publication of the essay, Gibbon had entered a new and, one might suppose, a very uncongenial scene of life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z

When we speak of dwarfing stocks, we mean such as are so uncongenial as to check the wood-growth; and thus, while producing smaller trees, they have a tendency to early fruitfulness if properly managed. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z

I have never seen a man to whom the idea of jail was so entirely uncongenial! "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z

We do not give our spirits credit for what they learn through adapting themselves to uncongenial companionship. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z

She thought of her father—a man of intellectual abilities who had spent his life out of touch with his environment, in an uncongenial employment. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z

The entire modern French school is strongly tinged with Wagnerism, but the essentially Teutonic nature of Brahms would seem to render his style absolutely uncongenial to a French mind. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z

Hence in speaking of dwarf pear trees, it does not follow that they have been worked on the quince or other uncongenial stock. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z

"My dear sir, I should not, I imagine, have been entrusted with this very uncongenial errand unless I had been thought capable of carrying it out," replied Forsyth, in a tone of annoyance. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z

I spent several days in this uncongenial work, with anything except benefit to my general condition. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z

Had he remained he would be just about going over to Memorial for his supper at the ill-assorted and uncongenial "graduates' table" to which he had belonged. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z

For wild flowers, like patriotism, seemingly reach their highest perfection amid conditions of soil and climate that are apparently most uncongenial. Fly Fishing in Wonderland 2011-09-01T02:00:22.230Z

He had the year before lost his uncongenial although royal wife, Mary of England, and he was looking out for another bride. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z

In the uncongenial soil of Pella it gradually dwindled away, losing first its influence and soon after its nationality. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z

My system of criticism is naturally uncongenial to Mr. Matthew Arnold, but while he says so with characteristic vigour, he likewise speaks of this work with equally characteristic generosity, and I cordially thank him. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z

In this uncongenial atmosphere, where the rays of the sun are seldom or never seen, Jemmy was as happy as a prince. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z

"I don't care;" and Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z

Indeed I have often conjectured, when full of neglect and its smarts, I must have been left on the door-step of their uncongenial hearts! City Ballads 2011-08-04T02:00:21.027Z

The youth put to an uncongenial trade, the man or woman married to an unsuitable partner, may find no escape from the position and decide to bear it and forget its anxiety. Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge 2011-08-01T02:00:14.257Z

In the winter, on the grip of a Chicago street car, he suffered the hardships of long hours and low pay for uncongenial work. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z

The work was uncongenial and by way of escaping from it, after I had married, I removed to Mississippi and undertook the practice of law there. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z

What crime have they committed that they should be imprisoned in the dirt and bad air and uncongenial fog of Sclater Street? Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z

Lance nodded his head in recognition of the kindness of the man's intention, then silently commenced his laborious and uncongenial task. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z

Alone in this uncongenial home poor Nellie had a bad time of it. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z

As a rule, new bricks and mortar create an environment particularly uncongenial to a self-respecting ghost. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z

We should be sorry to make oath that apart from this pardonable discontent with her most uncongenial surroundings there was not another phase of canker eating into her mind and destroying its peace. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z

However, she tried to make the best of an uncongenial arrangement which had resulted from blood relationship. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z

Suppose I were a sempstress or a poor governess on her way to an engagement, should I not have to do the same?—to travel unattended; to take my chance of rough or uncongenial companionship? Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z

Even if he will prolong it, he must toil hard at some uncongenial drudgery till the end of his days—harder than the broad-arrow-wearing wretch, wheeling his barrow in the quarries of Portland. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z

Their reception, and the continuance of their names among the most honoured of its inhabitants, proved that the spot was neither ill-chosen, nor uncongenial. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z

Why should he grind away at some dingy and uncongenial money-grubbing mill just for the fun of supporting your, or any other man’s, daughter. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z

I presume more would make the venture if they found the atmosphere less uncongenial. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z

Flood, as a matter of fact, would have much preferred the cattle to the uncongenial Nolai, but, apparently, her relations shared in this preference. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z

The chamber was full of uncongenial, discordant people, whom death made equal. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z

It was through Rice that there presently came to Reynolds that uncongenial business opening which in worldly wisdom he held himself bound to accept. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z

I am thinking of you toiling the day through, week in week out, at some sordid and uncongenial drudgery for a mere pittance. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z

That these should cease after the execution of a person or persons with whom she had been in distressing and uncongenial rapport, was perhaps only a natural result from the action of universal laws. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z

Moreover, he had no intention of staying more than a short time should the life there prove uncongenial. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z

The higher natures, acting from a wider conception of life, will do their best to do justice to the character, uncongenial though it may be, which happens to be assigned to them. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z

He did not find the work uncongenial; he had no hankerings after other modes of life—in fact the thought of any change never even entered into his calculations. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z

It was after several months of the most uncongenial toil that she finally gained recognition in "Cymbria." Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z

Rotha did not take to any of them; made no confident of any of them; and was felt by most of them to be somehow uncongenial. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z

I only wonder that children bred up in such uncongenial homes come to be so much men and women as they are. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z

Then she suddenly exclaimed, 'You cannot imagine what it is, Dolly, to be linked to one so utterly uncongenial, you who are so fortunate in our dear Robert's perfect sympathy and knowledge of London life. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z

The autobiography of Strindberg is largely inspired by his unreasoning hatred of women; the result, in the main, of his three unfortunate ventures into the uncongenial field of matrimony. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z

It was based upon personal independence, upon family pride and upon intellect unhampered by personal toil in uncongenial occupations; and lastly upon sentiment. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z

Very poor as this home was, it was better than an unknown country, and uncongenial as were her companions, she preferred them to nobody. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z

It not only drives girls into deception: it drives them into uncongenial marriages. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z

To condemn a youth to pass the best years of his life at an uncongenial pursuit, to make the pursuit his calling, is a cruel injustice wherever it is knowingly inflicted. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z

In spite however of all inspiration and of all support, sickness and uncongenial company impeded his hours of labour and corroded his hours of repose. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z

I suppose there's something in fogs and perpetual rain and cold and darkness which is especially uncongenial to me. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z

He remembered the sordid poverty, the struggle to maintain appearances, and the strain of forced attention to an uncongenial task, and asked himself half contemptuously why he had borne them so long. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z

Ruth felt that she had assumed some responsibility in persuading him to undertake an uncongenial task; for if he proved unfitted for it, his troubles would be numerous. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z

At first sight the material of the Carolingian Cycle, which formed the basis of the most considerable narrative poems of the Renaissance, seems uncongenial to the Italians. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

Moreover he appealed strongly to those to whom the Coleridgean speculations were uncongenial. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z

It must not be supposed that Helen, her first surprise over, submitted tamely to a life so utterly at variance with her former experiences and so uncongenial to her tastes. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z

I quite understand how uncongenial I may be. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z

This infatuation was inherited by Dante, and it was not uncongenial to his bitter and intemperate spleen. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z

The versatility of Lorenzo's talent showed itself to greater advantage when he quitted the uncongenial ground of sacred literature and gave a free rein to his fancy in the composition of Ballate and Carnival songs. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

From a wild chaos of uncongenial surroundings, these two women had dropped into a sphere in which they were perfectly at home. The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine 2011-03-15T02:00:14.097Z

His success in this new and uncongenial sphere was soon assured. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z

She soon tired, however, of such uncongenial companionship, and induced her grandmother to allow her to pursue alone her investigations of the corners and by-ways of Venice. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z

His enigmatical manner is his protection against the intrusion of uncongenial minds. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z

He managed to endure this uncongenial existence for three years, from February 20, 1522, till June, 1525, sustaining his spirits with correspondence and composition, and varying the monotony of his life by visits to Ferrara. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

Lawmakers, though, are decidedly less optimistic about Mr. Scott’s budget plan, and even less enthusiastic about his uncongenial approach to Tallahassee. Florida Republicans at Odds With Their Leader 2011-03-08T03:01:01Z

Then they separated, silent and gloomy—a household of eight years, even an uncongenial one, isn't broken up without the sense of finality weighing on its members. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z

He had more than one reason for doing so, but perhaps the chief was that he found the atmosphere of Hanbridge Wesleyan chapel rather uncongenial. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z

His intention was to outshine Millais, whom he found uncongenial as an artist, and whose work he prophesied would not survive a lifetime's popularity. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z

She was, perhaps, too much repressed and chilled in childhood, by living with uncongenial persons. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z

The long preparation and training, bought by privation and uncongenial toil, was over, and he was ready to apply himself to the scientific study of sacred letters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z

For this very reason he has in later years felt, what was natively uncongenial to him—the great cities—differently and far more intensely than poets brought up in them. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z

Nevertheless she found joy in the uncongenial and ill-performed task—the cold, fierce joy of the nun in her penance. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z

Trafford found the opening campaign, the operation with the plantation shares and his explosion of Behrens' pretensions extremely uncongenial. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z

Some time after, the Jinn fell desperately in love with the Vizier’s daughter, and displayed his attachment in the rather uncongenial form of a viper. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z

So the Factor was again left to his uncongenial thoughts. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z

Though by no means of uncongenial disposition, he affected to hold all amateur hunters in a kind of lordly contempt; and his conversation with such was always of a condescending character. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z

There was, too, his very real fear for the future happiness of his boy, bound in marriage to a woman he believed would prove to be a most uncongenial mate. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z

It gave her general expenditure a quality of concentration without involving any uncongenial limitation to suppose it aimed at the preparation of a statesman's circle whenever Trafford chose to adopt that assumption. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z

He seemed to feel that it begat in him a certain condition of his being, which was most painful, and every way uncongenial to his natural, wonted self. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z

She made a fatal mistake in peopling them with different and uncongenial races. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z

Moreover, there was much friction between Bret Harte and the new publisher of the “Overland,” who had succeeded Mr. Roman; and finally, the moral and intellectual atmosphere of San Francisco was uncongenial to him. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z

Whilst under the influence of feelings such as these, the society and the haunts of men were uncongenial to the poetic youth, and he usually sought out the wildest scenes of his native country. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z

One window much admired for its felicitous combination of theoretically uncongenial colours is that which sets forth the legend of St. Hubert. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z

Indeed, there was nothing left for me but acquiescence, hard and uncongenial as I found it. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z

It is very hard to get over first impressions, and the repulsion of an entirely uncongenial countenance. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z

It’s because an extremist ideology -- essentially, a refusal to abide by uncongenial election results -- has purchase on a much greater part of the right than anything like it does on the left. Threats reveal scary underpinnings of right-wing opposition 2010-03-25T13:26:00Z

It is so hard to live with an uncongenial nature, isn’t it? Zula

This avocation, uncongenial as it was to my college pursuits and feelings, still occupied my attention, and withdrew me from reflections of no very pleasing nature. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10

Are we therefore to conclude that the best method of scientific education is to force a boy to work at uncongenial subjects? Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History

I've practiced some already, and did not find the work hard, or uncongenial. The Man from Jericho

I do not hate her, but that her nature is uncongenial to me I must own. A Sister's Love A Novel

The difficulties they had with uncongenial brethren, their interior doubts and fears, and awful dread that such might one day cause them to fall away. Brother Francis Less than the least

The impatience of restraint of which the Mackenzies spoke, and the dissatisfaction of which was to him, despite its luxuries, an uncongenial home, rendered him discontented. The Home Life of Poe

It will strike them that words cut deeper than is their wont; that from that wild uncongenial imagery, thoughts emerge of singular truth and beauty. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.

But uncongenial records are useless things, like stern lights. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion

As the uncongenial task went on, Robert reflected disconsolately that his bid for freedom had not met with much success. The Gay Adventure A Romance

The second vacant seat was across the round table, and she found herself sensible of a feeling of quarantine with an uncongenial companion, and wondering who would fill the empty space at her left. The Key to Yesterday

He was said to have been recognized in other equally uncongenial occupations, but relief was at hand in the time of his sorest need. The Home Life of Poe

The search for another involves reflection, which is uncongenial to the bustling people who describe themselves as practical, because they take things as they are and leave them as they are. The Acquisitive Society

It settled his position among his strange, uncongenial companions. The Wreckers of Sable Island

This sense of harmony never yokes uncongenial persons at table, except through unavoidable necessity. Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions

He had never come in contact with its worship or its professors; and to his unimaginative, unimpassioned, and profoundly intellectual temperament, no ideal type could be more uncongenial than that of the saint. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16

On the whole, both Garland and this stranger seemed uncongenial companions for Mr. Braden. The Land of Strong Men

Proscribed and persecuted, the early Christians had not perhaps access to the public schools, nor inclination to studies which seemed, very excusably, uncongenial to the character of their profession. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3

Women were parasites, working only under constraint, badly and at uncongenial tasks; their right to live was based on their capacity to please. A Bed of Roses

Her home, which had been uncongenial before, was now intolerable. With Edge Tools

The heat had been tremendous; the country parched and unsympathetic; the associations terribly uncongenial. The Gambler A Novel

But the confirmed habit of unquestioning obedience inherent in a Roman soldier led to an almost mechanical acceptance of his uncongenial task. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs

I fell in with habits that were uncongenial, and tastes that I ever disliked; but without success. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II)

It had never struck her that employment might be difficult to find or uncongenial when one found it. A Bed of Roses

The adult reared in a wild state shows many phases of vicious and uncongenial temper. The Speech of Monkeys

Cervantes perforce remained at his post; the work was hard, uncongenial and ill-paid, and the salary was in constant arrears. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross"

If letters, or arguments with friends, flurried him, or awakened uncongenial thoughts or memories, he was capable of putting the letters away unread, and breaking off a friendship that had lasted for years. Lafcadio Hearn

At that time, all is haste and suspense, and men and women are alike uncongenial. On the Heights A Novel

A man enjoyed the possession of a beautiful and loving wife and a very uncongenial mother-in-law. Her Royal Highness Woman

She would not, of course, willingly follow him, and his would once again be the uncongenial task of carrying her off by force if he was to succeed in his new venture. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

When his son came to Asolo, he was struck, as I was later, by the uncongenial outlook. Fragments of an Autobiography

To Amenomori, as to others, Hearn poured out his despair at the uncongenial surroundings of Tokyo; he wanted new experiences, and Tokyo was not the place for them. Lafcadio Hearn

To teach Latin and Greek verse at Brighton College, Cheltenham College, Reading Grammar School, successively, was the extremely uncongenial task imposed upon me by the chances of the universe. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome.

Carlyle did his duties as a schoolmaster punctiliously, but found the life thoroughly uncongenial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades"

And at the same moment Kitty recognised, beyond all possibility of doubt, Aunt Eliza—her own grim, harsh, uncongenial Aunt Eliza. Man and Maid

He even put in a summer at uncongenial labor in order to earn money enough to buy three or four second-hand instruments. Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895

The uncongenial climate, also, of Ohio did not suit his delicate constitution. Lafcadio Hearn

Still, I had managed to muddle on through life somehow, and gain a living so far—which was satisfactory, but in an uncongenial and sedentary form of occupation—which was not. A Veldt Vendetta

Naturally, under such uncongenial circumstances, there was little thought of social gathering or function, except in a very few of the larger towns, which refused to abandon their ways because of poverty. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10)

To-day I am Papa Péron, music publisher’s hack, earning a few shillings a week at a most uncongenial occupation. The Intriguers

Countless boys have fled from the farm because they found the work monotonous, laborious and uncongenial, the hours long, the work unorganized and apparently unrewarding, the father or employer hard, exacting and unfeeling. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity

The uncongenial circumstances of his present life faded into insignificance. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley

Of his adventures in China, and the temporary prosperity he enjoyed there, while he held the somewhat uncongenial office of Provedor dos defuntos, i.e., The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem

From another observer comes the story of the simple deeds of kindness done by a company of young people in Brooklyn to a young woman married to an elderly and uncongenial man. The Book of Courage

Were two of the most uncongenial persons in the world to be thrown together on a desert island, would they have nothing to say to each other? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865

A large continuity 543 of thought and effort was perhaps radically uncongenial to such a temperament; yet one cannot help speculating whether under other circumstances he might not have achieved it. The Intellectual Life

In other letters he showed how he repented bitterly of having chosen a career so uncongenial. Rulers of India: Lord Clive

Instead of being obliged to carry on an uncongenial occupation she could take Mr. Moxon's advice and go to study in Paris. Loyal to the School

There would seem to be something uncongenial to obedience in any form in the life of an Irish peasant; something doubtless in the smell of the turf. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas

You will observe that some persons, at the first encounter, bristle all over with uncongenial points; and yet, if you will quietly ignore these, or boldly rush upon them, you shall gain a true friend. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865

There are thousands of unions as uncongenial as that of Hortense and Louis. Josephine Makers of History

You choose to regard yourself a failure and grow morose because you have found the law uncongenial and because editors earn their salaries by returning your manuscripts. The Portal of Dreams

Mr. Maurice, after all, is thrown away where he is: all his life he has been in an uncongenial position. The London Pulpit

I noted some familiar faces in the pits, among them those of the lusty men on the St. Paul with the uncongenial room-mate. The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901)

These new guests presented a new scene, very uncongenial to the timid and tranquil spirit of the amiable hostess. Coelebs In Search of a Wife

Louis Napoleon, the present President of the French Republic, is the only surviving offspring of this uncongenial union. Josephine Makers of History

It was this feeling of being sullied and unnerved in the uncongenial skirmishings of the divorce that jarred on his sensitive nature and made his ambitious hand lose its cunning. Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition

I suppose that he had been transferred to a new home which had proved uncongenial, and was slipping away, in fear and trembling, to his old quarters. Dog Stories from the "Spectator" being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power, affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the correspondence columns of "The Spectator"

As the ways and restrictions of a settled invalid were repugnant to Stevenson’s character and instincts, so were the life and society of a regular invalid station depressing and uncongenial to him. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25)

One she rescued from "the uncongenial life of the workhouse;" another acted as an agent for her society; and she was specially interested in a third, both blind and deaf, now dead. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind

The assize work was not familiar and was uncongenial to the chancery judges, who had but little training or experience to fit them for it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy"

How many beautiful, lovely-minded women do we meet in society, who are united, by marriage contract, with men whose tastes, habits and characters, cannot but be in every way uncongenial. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848

Then there are those—I should not like to make a guess at their number—who will marry any man, however undesirable and uncongenial, rather than be left ‘withering on the stalk.’ Modern marriage and how to bear it

Even when the college work was uncongenial, he never scamped it, but mastered the subject. James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports

The quondam Parisian openly welcomed each stopping-place as an excuse to escape from such uncongenial companionship. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch

After receiving a very limited education he was apprenticed to a linen manufacturer, but, finding the employment uncongenial, he resumed school-life at the institution founded by Wesley at Kingswood, near Bristol. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy"

But he performed his difficult and uncongenial task with almost incredible success, and is said never to have made an enemy or a mistake. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati"

That single cell contracts and recoils from the things in its environment uncongenial to its constitution, and the things congenial it draws to itself and absorbs. The Kempton-Wace Letters

That they should think us uncongenial and distant would have been an obstacle to our success among them. James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports

Curiously enough, it was the presence of humanity of the uncongenial type which alone had power to effect his reversion to the status of the brute. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies

But in 1847 a sense of duty compelled him to take a far more laborious and uncongenial appointment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy"

Colonel Arbuthnot was the agent employed in collecting these unfortunate people and sending them to Halifax, and being a gentleman of a humane disposition he doubtless found his task a most uncongenial one. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784

Architecture.—In architecture the Chinese genius has found but limited and uncongenial expression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton"

This, perhaps, it was that drew him ever closer to Mr. Gladstone, while it made the House of Commons and the daily doings of politicians uncongenial. The History of Freedom

The infantry officer lives mostly on army rations, and as often as not he sleeps in his muddy clothes, amid the noise of war, after a long shift crammed with uncongenial duties. Cavalry of the Clouds

That Caroline of Brunswick was an uncongenial and unfitting consort; that she was an utterly unfit and improper person to occupy the exalted position of Queen of England, there can be no manner of doubt. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

And is there any more uncongenial club than the Human Race? The So-called Human Race

She had only had the training of sordid care and uncongenial tasks and associations. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7

He had a great dread of returning to the New World and settling down to the uncongenial work of the law, and he fancied he had some talent for art. Home Life of Great Authors

She derives her title from the convenient habit of the desert rose of detaching itself from uncongenial or exhausted soil, subsiding into a compact mass and travelling before the wind to more profitable surroundings. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920

The Regent seems never to have lost an opportunity of insulting his uncongenial and unfortunate wife. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

Add to this the fact that cold, impenetrable subsoils are chemically uncongenial to vegetation, and we have sufficient evidence of the importance, and in many cases the absolute necessity of sub-soiling and under-draining. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools

She was going to pass away for ever from uncongenial and odious companionship, and to live a life of sweet, proud, lonely independence. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877

The only daughter of the uncongenial pair was not permitted to dwell permanently with either. Home Life of Great Authors

It was to support an ailing wife, she felt sure, that he toiled at his uncongenial vocation. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920

Small as is the respect or esteem which we owe to the memory of George the Fourth, we may almost sympathise with him when he calls such a consort “uncongenial.” English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

Fruit can be raised on an uncongenial soil, by grafting into stocks adapted to that soil. Soil Culture

Mr. Rackstraw was not a man of many words, so he had to fall back upon the same very often or hold his tongue: a course uncongenial to him. When Ghost Meets Ghost

But the clerk in charge seemed to find something uncongenial in his proposal. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

If I were too old and too uncongenial for your husband, I should still have remembered that I was the Prince of that country to which you came, a visitor and a child. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25)

It was maddening to think of the unhappy Professor still fretting away hour after hour in the uncongenial form of a mule, waiting impatiently for the relief that never came. The Brass Bottle

The uplands being uncongenial for corn, ponies, sheep and black cattle are reared, for fattening in the Midlands of England and sale in London. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

Something had happened to this fillah when he was a boy, and anything like a ghost was uncongenial to him. When Ghost Meets Ghost

He believed it shared by her in the secret of her uncongenial conjugal life. Aurora the Magnificent

He is a mixture of gloom and sarcasm, chastened, however, by good breeding, and with a vein of original genius that makes some atonement for the unheroic and uncongenial cast of his whole mind. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)

His best fun is quite intelligible; his worst not wholly uncongenial. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

He bit his lip and frowned, strongly tempted deliberately to sidestep a task so uncongenial. The Monk of Hambleton

He escaped from this uncongenial employment to be dependent on an uncle, and thus early exhibited his life-long disposition to rely upon others for support. The Age of Pope (1700-1744)

His needs were simple, and he could live without applying himself to uncongenial work, though the allowance had been stopped, and the income, as Leslie had said, was incredibly small. Aurora the Magnificent

Thus he seemed doomed to spend the remainder of his days in employment which proved to him increasingly uncongenial. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series

Readers, who measure the beauty of a district by its average height above the sea-level, and who cannot appreciate the charm of a 'waste enormous marsh,' may find Crabbe uncongenial. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

She simply acted as she had acted all her life—doing what she liked best—refraining from doing what was uncongenial—what did not amuse her. East of the Shadows

Even the resistless physical energy which the clear faith in the life hereafter has so often imparted, becomes something uncongenial to the ripened religious meditation. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion

But when the harrowing recital was finished, his character seemed to assume a tone of energy uncongenial with his present state of malady. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance.

Carlingford passed away like a dream from the lively old mother's memory, and how could any reminiscences of that uncongenial locality disturb the recovered beatitude of the Fellow of All-Souls? The Rector

The greatest minds in both classes are equally marked by their naturalisation in the lofty regions of thought, inaccessible or uncongenial to men of inferior stamp. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

A dull amount of conversation, often interrupted by that lively little woman, rose in the uncongenial party. The Doctor's Family

He had a sister, lately, if not still, living, from whom, though of a very uncongenial nature, something might surely have been gathered. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir

Yes, her people lived in Michigan but were uncongenial. The Gorgeous Girl

She is very prolific in "ideas," and seems to be chiefly inspired when engaged in the uncongenial pastime of cleaning the grate. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914

Whenever we penetrate to the underlying character, we find something harsh and uncongenial mixed with very high qualities. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

This is taken advantage of in planting varieties on uncongenial soils after they have been grafted on a vine which finds itself at home in the particular soil. Manual of American Grape-Growing

People are, as has been pointed out, driven by the stupidity of the teaching system into all kinds of uncongenial employment. The Curse of Education

Catharine retired with her child to the colder and more uncongenial regions of the northern declivity of the mountains. Henry IV, Makers of History

Tunic� often avails himself of a pollito when he happens to be afflicted with an uncongenial partner, or one whose manner of dancing does not satisfy him! The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba

She contracted later an uncongenial marriage; he seems to have turned with intense ardor to religion. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Sometimes the burden assigned to him was uncongenial; none the less, he would shoulder it manfully. War Letters of a Public-School Boy

"I didn't know it mattered, as long as we all got washed," said Penelope, and finding the atmosphere uncongenial, began edging away. The Carroll Girls

This is all true; but many cannot reconcile themselves at first to the fact, to the uncongenial milieu, to this modest resolve, especially such responsive and enthusiastic women as yourself. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885

Barbara seemed chilled by uncongenial company, though she touched his hand on her way to the door and turned, with patent consciousness that she was being watched, to give him a parting smile. The Education of Eric Lane

But to men of delicate nerves it was not sharing Truth's crust that made the difficulty so much as the other uncongenial company at her august table. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History

In August, 1916, Paul Jones was relieved of his uncongenial duties with the Supply Column and appointed to command an ammunition working-party located at an advanced railhead in the terrain of the Somme battles. War Letters of a Public-School Boy

All of his sisters were distinctly wrapped up in their own affairs; Robert and he were temperamentally uncongenial. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel

The amount of uncongenial, if not repulsive labour that he must have performed when he was studying the old law-books is marvellous. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice

She had been very busy one evening with this rather uncongenial occupation, and had barely finished the necessary counting and arranging, when the bell rang for preparation. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life

But he found law as uncongenial a study as divinity. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History

Mr. Boon, who prepared him in mathematics, testified that Paul had "worked with interest and energy" at what was for him an uncongenial subject. War Letters of a Public-School Boy

It is not here possible to convey an adequate impression of his fiery spirit, his long heart-hunger, and the magnitude of the loss which a wholly uncongenial marriage must ever mean to such a man. Australian Writers

The topic was not an uncongenial one to the members of the sewing-circle, who had really very little to talk about. A Bookful of Girls

At the end of that time, if these two well-meaning but uncongenial people decide that it is wisest to part, 'Kitty Quixote' will be sent to you, to do with as you see fit. The Brass Bound Box

I work harder on these uncongenial rôles than upon any other. The Light of the Star A Novel

And the doves, glad to escape from such uncongenial surroundings, whirred upwards with the car and, after a few tentative circles, took it clear over the battlements. In Brief Authority

This duty was made so irksome to him that, upon one occasion, he exclaimed in desperation that he preferred to resign his position rather than to continue such an uncongenial task. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century

This, I must confess, gave me a rather gloomy impression of Russia, and accounted in some measure for the grave and uncongenial aspect of the people. The Land of Thor

And duty had asked much of her during these last few years—exile, privations, uncongenial tasks, and the mothering of eight orphans. 'Lizbeth of the Dale

You are quite right, I shall never do my best work so long as I am forced to assume such uncongenial rôles. The Light of the Star A Novel

The whole production appears like a forced and uncongenial effort. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months

There liberty ended, and the girl was transported into a novel and most uncongenial sphere. Famous Women: George Sand

And I am not sure but that the discipline of little cares and uncongenial work that has come upon you this winter, may answer the purpose quite as well. The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened

A week spent amid uncongenial surroundings and without communication from home, reduced her to a state of pitiable depression. The Scarlet Feather

She rather hoped perhaps to find some sort of satisfaction by way of reward for the brave discharge of an uncongenial duty. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius

All obstacles in the way of severing uncongenial marriages should be removed, because such unions are unnatural, and must be evil in their results. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I

He set himself to his uncongenial work with a heart that revolted against the evil cause of which he was about to constitute himself the champion. The Perpetual Curate

He had the pleasant consciousness of an uncongenial task conscientiously performed, and without its anticipated unwelcome results being left behind. A Bachelor's Dream

Choosing the lesser of two evils, it is better to run the risk of offending than to jeopardize the flow of talk by inviting uncongenial people. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it

She moved about undecidedly, and it occurred to Esther that the task she was contemplating was an uncongenial one, though why it should be so was not apparent. Juggernaut

The very annoyances and constraints of propinquity are in their own way disciplinary, and insistent, uncongenial persons, like glaring red buoys with clanging bells, serve at least to keep us in the fairway of navigation. Apologia Diffidentis

In company with the other children he had been set at the task of learning his letters, and at first he, too, had rebelled at the uncongenial labor. The Doomsman

We reached Newcastle in plenty of time, for the boat was not due to sail before early next morning, and I felt relieved at being at last rid of my uncongenial companion. The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance

For nine long months the ex-officer had sought employment, indoor or outdoor, congenial or uncongenial. Anthony Lyveden

Confronted with an uncongenial task, you slunk away from it and shielded yourself behind the sophistry that the work was unworthy of you. Master of the Vineyard

Meanwhile, though uncongenial to my kind as entering little into their pleasures, I like to be near them in their grief or happiness, standing unnoticed in the wind of their fortune's wheel. Apologia Diffidentis

Before they came they knew that they were to wrest their living from an uncongenial soil, to struggle with penury and to conquer only by constant toil and self-denying thrift. The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907 Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn.

The Utilitarians, as we shall see, were too much disposed to overlook the difference, and attempt to apply purely legal doctrine in the totally uncongenial sphere of ethical speculation. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.

He had made a fatal mistake in leaguing himself with uncongenial partners, and began to feel that this mistake must be expiated by the ruin of his present venture. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm

This life he soon found uncongenial, and decided on becoming a mining engineer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"

Yet to flee from this uncongenial future and seek one more to his liking did not occur to Martin Howe. The Wall Between

The story of his marriage is slightly pathetic, but more than slightly ludicrous, and he appears to have been greatly henpecked as well as obliged to lead an uncongenial life at a country living. A History of Elizabethan Literature

After the departure of these uncongenial colleagues, Hamilton might have acted with power, had he not known too well that the sentiment of his state did not support him. The Critical Period of American History

The monarchs, utterly uncongenial, were struggling to act in harmony, but double weakness is not strength. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)

A grown-up daughter might wish to become a votary, perhaps in preference to an uncongenial marriage, and it seems that her father could not refuse her wish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"

The Editor became by degrees almost equally indifferent to what he perceived to be so uncongenial to Arthur’s mind. Spare Hours

Laura has no one but an uncongenial stepmother, and that is the reason we are so intimate. Ladies-In-Waiting

Growing up in this uncongenial atmosphere, James became entirely uncontrollable. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915)

Poets are proverbial for uncongenial marriages, and to this Poe can scarcely be classed as an exception. Stories of Authors, British and American

Finding military service uncongenial, he obtained a discharge and devoted himself to literature. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)

The step seemed familiar, yet incongruous and uncongenial; it was followed by a knock, and, going forward, Crabbe opened the door to Ringfield. Ringfield A Novel

Such homes as theirs and such occupations as theirs have very little in common with hard, uncongenial work such as mine. The Chautauqua Girls At Home

I earned it, my dear lady, in hard and uncongenial toil. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern

He was thinking of the fate that had consigned him to a perilous and uncongenial task. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War

The twentieth century is uncongenial to anything of that sort. The Mystery of the Green Ray

Was it not as it had always been—hateful, uncongenial, difficult? Ringfield A Novel

Return to two months more of the uncongenial drudgery from which he had been so glad to escape? Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good

Crushed as she was in spirit by her uncongenial surroundings, Dorothy still had enough 195 temper left to be furiously angry. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern

Much of that period had been passed in travelling, much more in exhausting and uncongenial negotiation in the Egyptian capital. The Life of Gordon, Volume II

We use the language of England," continues the lady, "and receive in torrents the influence of her thought, yet it is, in many respects, uncongenial and injurious to our constitution. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.

Lord Palmerston took what most people would have thought the uncongenial office of Home Secretary. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Young and brave, pining in uncongenial society, and debarred from the employment of his talents, Charles seized this opportunity of release. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Without being cemented by this element the conjugal union is sure to be uncongenial. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources

As there was not, he fell back on the hope that he might be able to discharge his uncongenial duties for a brief period, and then seek some convenient opportunity of retiring. The Life of Gordon, Volume II

She retraced her steps in that dreary book, again and again, patiently, forcing her mind to the uncongenial task. Vixen, Volume III.

Some of the better class of members invited him to their houses and he went occasionally, and if he found them uncongenial he never went again. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West

Hitherto she had only beheld him neglected in his uncongenial home circle, contemning and contemned, or else subjected to the fretting torment of Lucilla’s caprice. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster

Some of the truly happiest people I have ever known have been so in spite of the most uncongenial surroundings you can imagine.' Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls

It was by behaviour such as this, by his almost diabolical ingenuity in the art of being uncongenial, that Rupert had so largely contributed to make his own house impossible to him. The Light of Scarthey

Besides, he must clear himself of 271 suspicion, and because the part of a mere looker-on was uncongenial, there was a course which she would urge on him. Prescott of Saskatchewan

You will sacrifice all your ambition and take up the drudgery of teaching in an uncongenial sphere for the rest of your life?” Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls

It was quite a delight to me, as I listened, to recall my own dislike of his style of speaking, his fishy coldness, his uncongenial and unsympathetic politeness, and his insufferable though most gentlemanly artificiality. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete

They tried to make a doctor of him, and he studied medicine just long enough to discover that the profession was uncongenial, and abandoned it. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier

I'm sure it was the first Christmas any of us had spent in such an uncongenial way. The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland

The children try her, and she is so pretty it seems a pity for her to be tied down to uncongenial employment. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

I can see quite well that my presence is uncongenial to you all. Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School

Thoughts of our "scrap" had entirely left us, for Bennett and I had before us one of the most uncongenial tasks that an officer can have. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France

The illustrious poets also, annoyed by the platitude of prose, speedily relinquished their uncongenial task. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851

An uncongenial chill began to pervade the room. The Varmint

She should only force herself to do her best in uncongenial tasks if circumstances make it impossible for her to obtain a better nurse or teacher for her infant than she herself could be. Three Things

Their sojourn at the hotel may be somewhat irksome, and uncongenial; still they are safe. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea

When he lay down at night in the company of men whom in ordinary times he would never think of associating with, he was so tired that he forgot the uncomfortable surroundings and uncongenial society. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War

For one chance of success there are a dozen of failure; for you are trying to raise a special product from a soil probably uncongenial, or a fruit from an alien stem—figs from vines. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life

The birds of Canada differ little from those of the same names in Europe, but the severe climate is generally uncongenial to them. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)

But Mr. Abbott has disposed of the uncongenial theme with his accustomed ingenuity and good sense. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851

Seeing that there will be no difficulty in yet clearing the point, his anger cools down, and he is but too glad to withdraw from an angry discussion uncongenial to his nature. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea

Her life at Mrs Lambert's was not uncongenial to her, and she rose daily in the old lady's favour. Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century

Such a task—the critic will say—would have been uncongenial to him. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

Her companions in No. 7 were also uncongenial. The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life

A thin, angular woman, with pale green eyes and straight, tight lips, she had never been beautiful, but five or six years in an uncongenial environment had hardened and wasted her. Jack O' Judgment

If not, and our wedded bondage prove uncongenial, why, then, I may release you in the way you wish, or any other that seems suitable. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea

The latter had been so uncongenial in accent and tone that she had hesitated about becoming my instructor on that account. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch

But the political troubles of the time made Lombardy an uncongenial home for any artist, and Leonardo, with a few pupils, went to Florence and then on to Rome. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

In books, but not those of a monastic library, he found salvation; mathematics, astronomy, law, Latin, Greek consoled him during his period of uncongenial seclusion. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.

Seek, and consciously endeavour, to appropriate into your character uncongenial excellences, and be very charitable in your judgments of the different types of Christian conformity to Christ our Lord. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John

Father and I are wholly uncongenial and we fight on the slightest provocation. Mary Louise Solves a Mystery

Of course the relationship is not established for life; and the missionary who finds herself paired off with an uncongenial fellow worker may console herself by hoping that a change will come soon. Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries

Indeed, Alene herself could not define what was, in reality, the dismay any hostess might feel if called upon to entertain a group of people which she knows to be utterly uncongenial. Peggy-Alone

But Mr. Courtney remained intellectually alert, and was a determined champion of the cause of progress, even amid the uncongenial society of a West of Ireland town. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918

In a spirit of self-sacrifice, therefore, he made ready to exchange his comfortable exile for one more uncongenial and of course more bitter. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)

She was going to a foreign land with no companion but a strange and uncongenial man whom fate had imposed upon her in the guise of a parent. Mary Louise Solves a Mystery

Loyalty in Ireland is of slow growth, and the soil is uncongenial. Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics

If much of Helen’s work was uncongenial it at least had the merit of developing useful traits. The Man from the Bitter Roots

They could not even realize their own plan of life in the midst of uncongenial mores. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals

He found the profession of medicine uncongenial, and finally abandoned it altogether for science, serving for many years as professor of chemistry and botany at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. American Men of Mind

Each house-mistress had authority to suspend games, if necessary, so she was compelled to pass a weary afternoon at a most uncongenial occupation. The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life

And she grubs away at perfectly uncongenial work, and lives with this fusty old mother in a fusty little lodging-house. Jewel Weed

And the sweet angel-like Hélène, who had willingly crossed the ocean and exiled herself from the life she loved to these uncongenial surroundings. A Little Girl in Old Quebec

I wanted something better, but to find it I had to have the means, and means could only be had by the most uncongenial work. David Malcolm

He came so little into town, and mixed so little with the uncongenial life and company it offered, that he was ignorant of its prevailing fashion, pastime, and vice—gambling. A Girl of the Klondike

Never had anything been more uncongenial to him. The Lost Girl

Break your bonds, and, unhampered by uncongenial ties, seek in another climate for that peace of mind you will never enjoy here or elsewhere as his wife.' The Forsaken Inn A Novel

Want of Love.—The general conclusion will be that jealousy is more the result of wrong conditions which cause uncongenial unions, and which through moral corruption, artificially create distrust, than a necessary accompaniment of love. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage

Food prepared by man, and often ill chosen, combined with the inclemency of an uncongenial climate—these eventuate in modifications sufficiently profound to become constant and hereditary in successive generations. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin

Then," he added, "we are so uncongenial—at least this morning. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764

But the roving spirit within him soon caused him to break away from an occupation so uncongenial. The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas

Business called Allan, for a time, to his old home in C, and to his uncongenial life there. Janet's Love and Service

The latter supposition was the more bitter of the two; and goaded by it and one or two other uncongenial thoughts, I paid frequent visits to the “refreshment-room,” where wine flowed freely. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse

Thirty takes lightly enough the foregoing of a Saturday reunion, the uncongenial spending of a Sunday; but seventy can see the end of the series, and grudges every unit of the total that remains. The Nebuly Coat

Both these posts were uncongenial to his nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866

The Marjorie of a year ago would not have answered the challenge of her husband to prove herself an honorable woman by taking over a long, hard, uncongenial task. I've Married Marjorie

A common difficulty with me when I witness stage tragedies arising out of a marriage of uncongenial types is to understand how the couple ever came together. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916

From this it appears, that to tell the truth in these matters was not always an uncongenial duty. Mary Wollstonecraft

But it is time for one pipe on deck and a last look at the somewhat uncongenial sea, then to a bed, three or four inches too narrow. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah

Still, he goes "where glory waits him," so what recks he that the hour is altogether uncongenial and inconvenient? The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2

And I find very few environments wholly uncongenial. Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch

We could not live together half slave and half free; shall we succeed better in trying a second left-handed marriage between democracy and another form of aristocracy, less gross, but not less uncongenial? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays

Her surroundings were uncongenial, her duties distasteful, and she was disapproved of by her employer. Mary Wollstonecraft

Then at least, if never before, he wished himself back at his uncle's house in Smyrna, uncongenial as it was otherwise. The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus

Adams may not have been above the uncongenial task of soliciting votes, but he kept safely within the moral domain which his conscience marked out. Union and Democracy

The best place in the world is the home, and in proportion as home life is unsatisfactory or uncongenial, so in proportion are the Clubs filled with dissatisfied and unhappy men. Dollars and Sense

Politeness as well as pity impel one to be especially polite to the caller or visitor who is uncongenial, or stupid, or unattractive. The Etiquette of To-day

The atmosphere of a library is uncongenial with them. An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition

This is the kind of discord I have to bear, corresponding to your uncongenial company. Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston

But affluence, or the air of the Cromwell Road, seemed uncongenial to the Muse. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales

Having by that time become weary of this uncongenial mode of life, he obtained permission from the king to pay a visit to his old residence at Barnesdale. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852

Finding the legal profession uncongenial, he soon relinquished it; and entering upon the married state in 1836, he has since resided at Kelso. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

No good work can be accomplished in uncongenial employment. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics

But then Eugenia had seemed to find France as strange and uncongenial as Barbara now considered Russia. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army

But class distinction had not then crystallized into cast, into immiscible, uncongenial yet co-ordinate elements of a so called revealed constitution. Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya

We follow him a little higher, to the house of the Woodbridge surgeon, then through his prolonged courtship of Sarah Elmy, then to those dreary, uncongenial duties of piling up butter casks on Slaughden Quay. Immortal Memories

“Better even that, than to grow old in uncongenial company,” said Hadria. The Daughters of Danaus

He was no longer the awkward lout, stolidly working at uncongenial toil. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls

“But, major, if you do condemn me to his company, please let us have Mafuta again, for Wilkins and I are like two uncongenial stones, and he acts as lime to keep us together.” Hunting the Lions

Raventik, reckless as usual, sprang down with a mighty lump, but finding the atmosphere below uncongenial, hurled it towards his predecessors, and sprang up again for a fresh supply, watering at the eyes and choking. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice

Hundreds of young men and women drag along in comparative poverty and uncongenial occupations and surroundings, because they have never learned how to get away from these conditions. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony

A while ago you were angry with me because I was driven to waste my time with people uncongenial to me. April's Lady A Novel

Probably, however, it was thought needless to express what might be inferred, or to caution against a practice so uncongenial with the christian duties of a monk. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

Vondel had no other master but his genius, which, with his uncongenial situation, occasioned all his errors. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

It is satisfactory, in these days of uncongenial relations between master and servant It is effective, in the admirable arrangements of the household. Gryll Grange

But cares and occupations of a nature peculiarly uncongenial with the indulgence of sentimental sorrows, now claimed, and not in vain, the serious-273--vol ii- thoughts of this prudent and vigilant princess. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

It is not an uncongenial soil for the average Russian. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921

Give them money, and they squander it; place them in situations of trust, and they are dismissed as incompetent, or they throw them up as uncongenial to their tastes. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia

I had not the most remote idea that it would make a young lady commence such an uncongenial pursuit.” The Rajah of Dah

The few boarding houses were crowded, and with an uncongenial lot as a rule. A Wounded Name

Queen Mab and the Owl found him uncongenial, and flew away again. 'That Very Mab'

Whenever our work galls us, whenever we feel it to be a drudgery and uncongenial, the friction grinds life away at a terrible rate. Pushing to the Front

She had no rule by which to estimate the suffering which comes from poverty and separation, from solitary and uncongenial toil. Christie Redfern's Troubles

No park can be beautiful unless the trees which adorn it are healthy, and no tree is healthy which suffers from uncongenial climatic conditions and insufficient nourishment. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898

An unknown stranger, and a self-confessed failure so far in his young life, and yet he seemed so good a sight to her amid these uncongenial surroundings! A Voice in the Wilderness

His private happiness was marred by an uncongenial marriage. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order

Half the world seems to have found uncongenial occupation, as though the human race had been shaken up together and exchanged places in the operation. Pushing to the Front

He was evidently strange to the place, and looked about him with an air of perplexity, which made it clear that he was in the midst of unfamiliar and uncongenial scenes. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found

A population thus originating, a community thus founded, were naturally uncongenial to the aristocratic element of the Old Dominion. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

So he rode away into the sunset once more with just another look and a hand-clasp, and she turned, strangely happy at heart, to go back to her dull surroundings and her uncongenial company. A Voice in the Wilderness

With deep shame Blair saw how unchristian had been his thoughts and acts towards his uncongenial associates. The Boy Patriot

You may be forced to drudge at uncongenial toil for a time, but emancipate yourself as soon as possible. Pushing to the Front

That seems to me very hard—to be unselfish and take up uncongenial work, and then to meet with nothing but failure and disappointment! A Houseful of Girls

Don’t make things harder by drifting into uncongenial surroundings. Betty Trevor

He was a man of sordid life and without morality; but he was true to his life's purpose, and toiled at uncongenial tasks rather than write at other bidding than that of his own soul. Heroes of Modern Europe

The labour was immense, prolonged, uncongenial; but it completed his knowledge of the customs, rules, maxims, and currents of trade and it bore good fruit in future days at the exchequer. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859

“Right you are,” replied Douglas; and he began his meal with a very excellent appetite despite the uncongenial surroundings. Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru

It was uncongenial work for a sunny Saturday. Just Patty

He felt uncomfortable in being separated from Reginald at all, especially when the latter was left single-handed in such an uncongenial atmosphere as that breathed by Mr Durfy and Barber. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life

However, we decided to ignore this uncongenial influence, and bury our sorrows in “Our Novel.” Boycotted And Other Stories

Fisher minor, on the uncongenial topic of the rabbit, found composition difficult and punctuation impossible. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth

Like the faun of Hawthorne's mythical tale, he loved Nature in all her moods; but Gallatin appears to have wearied of the confinement and of his uncongenial companions. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII

It's simply flying from the very comfortable and congenial and normal present into a dark limbo that is deucedly uncomfortable, uncongenial, and abnormal. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

How, he wondered, was the poor fellow getting on that moment in his distant uncongenial work? Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life

I soon reassured her; and that moment was the first of a confidence and intimacy seldom seen between our uncongenial races. Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain

Instead of delicately nursing the theoretic life in the luxury of the academic cloister, he was forced to work like a slave upon the most uncongenial tasks for a very modest share of daily bread. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs

The industrial development of the State was in the direction of small farming, manufacturing and commerce, all of which were uncongenial to slavery. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917

To both the girls it was uncongenial though necessary work. For the Sake of the School

I went back to America and piled into a work, entirely uncongenial, but determined to win out. Molly Brown's Orchard Home

But even where the employment was at first uncongenial, a strict sense of duty and a strong determination to master the difficult and to like the disagreeable, conquered in the end. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success

In his ardor for science all the uncongenial experiences of his life as a bank clerk vanished. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work

The farm had been captured only a few days before by our Cavalry, and we had the uncongenial task of burying the bodies of those who had been killed in the attack. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion

But in the meantime it was only Friday, and till at least the following Monday she would be obliged to endure her uncongenial presence in her bedroom. For the Sake of the School

These types are most easily influenced by their surroundings, and become morbid and depressed when they are forced to live in gloomy and uncongenial conditions. Palmistry for All

Many an uncongenial task was forced upon me, but I can honestly say I never shirked it. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success

Yet there may be good reasons why we should sacrifice any mere impulse of choice and exert ourselves to manifest a hospitable spirit toward certain people who are most uncongenial to us. Etiquette

Ernest does not care for it, and if it be of an uncongenial kind, he wraps himself in a mantle of reserve, that neither sun nor wind can unfold. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author

The poetical humorist must be allowed a certain license in dealing with facts; and poor Hawthorne, in the uncongenial atmosphere of the Liverpool Custom-house, had doubtless much to suffer from a thick-skinned generation. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

The crisp facts came out with force but with no malignity, and Lansing Hertford dropped his eyes as he replied: "Aunt Olive has told me they were very uncongenial." A Son of the Hills

We justify our hatred for uncongenial people till we have fairly faced the truth that love is the law of our being, and that we must love our neighbor. Girls and Women

Fortunately, if the blunder is made of introducing uncongenial people they can easily drift apart again without rudeness on the part of either. Etiquette

The atmosphere is one of strenuous profanity, most uncongenial to the unhappy infantry. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918

He continued in it for more than six years, first at Annan and then at Kirkcaldy; but he was soon finding it uncongenial and rebelling against it. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies

Upon its dry and uncongenial difficulties Mr. Adams had been employed with his wonted industry for upwards of four years; he now spoke of the result modestly as "a hurried and imperfect work." John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series

Schism, mutual alienation, antagonism, competition, are uncongenial to the spirit of the gospel, which seeks "that they all may be one." A History of American Christianity

It was almost as though the two were in league against her, just as children get in league against an adult who insists on unpleasant duties or uncongenial food. The Beach of Dreams

Soon after its publication, he succeeded in procuring employment on the daily newspaper press of Montreal, which enabled him to give up his uncongenial labor at the work-bench. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865

Board work was always uncongenial to him, and the subject was, of course, unfamiliar; but he gave his best efforts to the cause and did other voluntary work in London. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies

In any European combinations, said Mr. Adams, in which the United States should become a member, she must soon become an important power, and must always be, in many respects, an uncongenial one. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series

That it was a very struggling, difficult, and uncongenial life to him can be well understood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860

单词	uncongenial
例句	uncongenial People too firmly rooted to the center of their lives find such questions uncongenial at best, quite distasteful at worst. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Staphylococci live all over us, and seem to have adapted to conditions in our skin that are uncongenial to most other bacteria. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Slant and Pomp are often my companions; each of us finds the company of the others not uncongenial. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Those who found the team research Lawrence pioneered uncongenial simply moved on, but they were a distinct minority. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was an uncongenial existence for someone who had been raised in a stable, close-knit family environment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Joe’s blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t care,” and Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Is it too much to hope that, under Mr. Battle, the formidable Ailey company might try making both its audience and its dancers work through some material that’s uncongenial and perhaps unpopular? Critic?s Notebook: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as Hit Maker 2012-01-03T20:49:03Z Elegant as the lighting effect is, it forms a strongly patterned background that is uncongenial to any but the most assertive works, including a monumental table and chairs by Robert Therrien. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Before the first decade of Mr. Friedman’s directorship was out, he had grown dissatisfied with the Walker’s unwieldy 1927 neo-Moorish building, an uncongenial home for the avant-garde. Martin Friedman, Whose Vision Shaped Walker Art Center, Dies at 90 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z And second, by writers who wrote politely to decline, most on the grounds that annotating a first edition of one of their works – whatever you take that to entail – was uncongenial to them. Notes on PEN's annotated first edition auction 2013-05-20T10:58:00Z And hearing-aid users who find live theatre uncongenial are pleasantly surprised to find that cinemas are not the ratty old fleapits they remember, but rather plush places with crisp and booming Sensurround sound. Oscars 2011: We have the success, but what now for British film? 2011-03-01T08:21:30Z She rejected major theaters that wanted to build her up in uncongenial minor roles, preferring to sing the characters she loved in smaller houses. What’s Keeping One of Opera’s Greatest Sopranos From Singing? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Brandom, whose life’s work relies on the distinction between force and content that Kimhi attacks, admits to finding his former student’s ideas “deeply uncongenial” and “threatening.” Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z But the $250 million Kennedy Center expansion, confined to a small and uncongenial urban footprint, was a significantly more challenging project. Review \| Does the Kennedy Center have a vision for its elegant but awkward new annex? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The first sign was that anyone could be so happy to approach the Javits Center, a vast, uncongenial structure crouching on the most desolate stretch of Manhattan’s far West Side. Inside the passionate “girl-topia” of BookCon: Where authors are rock stars and geek-chic girls rule 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Yet let's consider this admittedly uncongenial possibility: perhaps Trump is onto something. V-E Day plus 75: From a moment of victory to a time of pandemic 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z I have a trick for doing justice to an uncongenial work: “What would I like about this if I liked it?” The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z And about denial of another First Amendment guarantee, freedom of association, which includes the freedom not to associate, through coerced financial support, with uncongenial political organizations. Opinion \| The ‘Janus’ ruling is a welcome blow to coerced speech 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Thanks to your fair comprehensive coverage I now know he had a black roommate and a transgender acquaintance, though he was likely uncongenial to sexual minorities. The Dramatic Last Hours as Agents Stalked the Austin Bomber 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z There’s no doubt that many Americans would find Mr. Ilves’s ideas uncongenial, particular his belief that the successful digitization of a society can happen only if digital IDs are mandatory and universal. Report From the Cyberwar Front Lines 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Take courses from professors who will challenge your views, whatever they are, and attend lectures by visiting scholars whose ideas you find uncongenial, because, after all, you may—as any of us may—be wrong. Why I Wanted to Debate Peter Singer 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z But such means are uncongenial to the conservative ideals of limited government and individual freedom. The Conservative Guild 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z One suspects he finds not just Trump but also Cruz so uncongenial that he’d rather see Mrs. Clinton win if either one is the nominee. You May Already Have Lost 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z It not only seeks to censor uncongenial speech but wishes to declare an uncongenial individual ineffable—in effect, to render him an unperson. Chalk and Awe 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The rebuttal is a substantive one: Republicans seek to avoid an uncongenial change in the balance of the court, just as Democrats did in 1987 and 1991. Confirmation Bias 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z He dismisses arguments he finds uncongenial with phrases like “Are you kidding me?” and “Come on,” and he’s quick to impugn the motives of critics. John Kasich vs. ‘Obscurity’ 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z On campuses, the right of free speech has been supplanted by an entitlement to what Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education calls a right to freedom from speech deemed uncongenial. Childishness on campus 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z And these phenomena are related to campus hysteria about protecting infantilized undergraduates from various menaces, including uncongenial ideas. Punishing parents who deviate from the government-enforced norm 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Women look at the game and conclude not only are they less practiced players at it, but it is deeply uncongenial to them. The false theory of meritocracy: why women lose out 2013-06-24T07:00:12Z A year later he went to Heidelberg to study law, but finding this uncongenial he passed on to the university of Munich, where he devoted himself to philosophy, history and literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z It was a weary life to him, shut up half the day in the laboratory, that he detested, in constant association with an uncongenial companion. Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas 2012-04-21T02:00:22.650Z Like the Empedocles of Matthew Arnold, baffled in the ineffable longing to escape themselves, these bearers of the divine light are haled unwillingly Back to this meadow of calamity, This uncongenial place, this human life. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Brown’s appointment, uncongenial to himself, was a stroke of luck for Henley, for whom, as he said, it represented a first acquaintance with a man of genius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z In a story, as in a voyage, one must occasionally travel with uncongenial companions. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z How is the uncongenial heart to become a fit bed for the good seed of the Kingdom? The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z Neither was his work particularly hard or uncongenial. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z He found that Disraeli was determined to surrender anything rather than power, and he withdrew from the uncongenial companionship. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z From such uncongenial surroundings Barry made his way to Dublin, and exhibited The Baptism of the King of Cashel by St. Patrick. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z The subscribers grew testy and dropped off, under the influence of this uncongenial decency exacted from the editor. Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z But, for a cripple confined to a couple of rooms, and surrounded by uncongenial people, without a single new magazine or a word of the world's gossip, he kept up his spirits wonderfully well. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z Their plumage often requires a close inspection to appreciate its elaborate beauty; the confinement and fretting seem not uncongenial to their health; and their plumage improves in attractiveness with almost every month. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z But still, impelled by what must be some sort of patriotism and sense of duty, he accepts his uncongenial part of constitutional King, and strives to do all that the voice of his people demands. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z After spending a short time in the office of an architect and surveyor, he left this uncongenial region to practise art. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z With Tuesday began the uncongenial labour of dissolution; for the little house that during the never-to-be-forgotten months had been our headquarters had to be emptied of its contents. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The history of literature, however, teaches us the reverse: its most brilliant lights have shone in dark and uncongenial times. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z "Oh, Blow!" he said, at last, and then, viciously, "Blow!" and so rose and flung away his cigarette end, and pursued his reluctant, dubiating way towards the really quite uncongenial splendours of the Royal Grand.... Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z After a conviction of the utility of his plan had penetrated the masses of the people, Parliament mutilated it, supplying the exscinded parts with uncongenial inventions of its own. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Fighting, however, is not altogether uncongenial to the descendants of our brute progenitors. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z We believe, however, we are now possessed of its substance, so far as it is possible to admit into any mind matter wholly uncongenial with its structure, its faith, and its hope. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z A young lady of indifferent nerve, mounted by a male relative on an uncongenial horse, trotted slowly down hill to a high fence to see what was on the other side. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z Lamartine was an alien of dubious character, and in some respects distinctly uncongenial habits, but Ormsgill had not spared himself to give his comrade that one chance for his life. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Clement had never visited the cotton-town before, and on a more commonplace errand he might have allowed himself to be daunted by a turmoil and bustle as new to him as it was uncongenial. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z How many of God's children have had to live in uncongenial surroundings, and with those who have no sympathy with their faith, from the earliest confessors and martyrs to the present-day converts to the Faith! Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady 2012-02-25T03:00:09.890Z To us his classification is unsatisfactory, his theory inadequate, his point of view uncongenial. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z It has its proportion of disciples in every period and in the apparently most uncongenial countries; a full proportion might have been looked for in New England. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z How shall we extol the genius which in such an uncongenial atmosphere produced those exquisite poems which for a century have been read and loved in every clime? A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Mental Model #1: Business as usual: As Hamel points out, traditional management is uncongenial to innovation. What's Your Mental Model Of Innovation? 2012-02-14T16:52:02Z To offer the apologies of a faithless swain was no more in his line than to be a faithless swain himself; the fleeting relics of Harry's authority had imposed a last uncongenial task. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z In this atmosphere I was detained two months, and among people very uncongenial both to my tastes and notions of right. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z They were in truth an uncongenial company, held together by a single link, their eagerness to harass their own government. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Once the very covers had seemed to me to answer the pressure of my fingers with a friendly welcome; now I applied myself straightway to the text as to a laborious and uncongenial task. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Tudor times were stirring, and the recollection of them uncongenial to Caston's mood. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z Isobel's hint that he had been a laggard in love banished, in a moment, the uncongenial prudence which he had been enforcing on himself. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z They, from their side, assumed an attitude of much-distracted bailiffs who have come to perform a necessary but highly uncongenial duty. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z To him there was nothing uncongenial in it, and he might very properly have been dubbed at the time a "loafer." Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z It is merely a short cut to the terrace and gardens, besides being a convenient means of avoiding uncongenial visitors. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z His relations with his younger brother William seem always to have been uneasy, and from an early period they seem to have been wholly uncongenial to each other. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z But our young friend Philip appears to have found his share of the work uncongenial. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z He heard the hymn, grasping its impressive analogy while he thought of the strong, brave, patient woman who had upheld his easy-going father at his uncongenial task. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z I knew Anna at boarding school; I know that she has an excellent disposition; and a husband must needs be very uncongenial to induce her ever to complain of her lot. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z In fact, the adventure was as unlike Enslee as it was uncongenial to him. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z A similar courage upheld her in receiving indifferent acquaintance and uncongenial relatives who came to pay visits of condolence. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z Twelve months spent in studying my comrades convinced me that, though some worthy fellows might be found among them, their society as a whole was uncongenial to my tastes. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z In our household are two uncongenial dogs, who, in ordinary circumstances, completely ignore each other, and between whom any familiarity would be resented fiercely. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z In absolutely uncongenial company he would maintain the silence of the tomb. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Like another Omphale, she fastened a womanish apron on Hercules, and set him at uncongenial tasks, retrieving butter, milk, salt, and eggs. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z His fair charmer, Madame de Chevreuse, was forced into uncongenial retirement, which ended in her dramatic escape, dressed up as a man, across the Pyrenees into Spain. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z But marriage with Mr Morgan opened a way of escape from uncongenial surroundings. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z The happiest parties sometimes contain uncongenial members: the merriest meetings are only for a very short time. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z The appalling fashionable and watering-place aspect of the streets and hotels, on the other hand, rendered it uncongenial to quiet travellers, whose strength did not lie in the clothes line. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z It was an uncongenial company for proclaiming one's poverty. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The effort has not been made to put the whole of our argument into these obviously uncongenial terms. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z It is the purgatory of travellers, where uncongenial spirits mingle together for a time, before they are separated into rich and poor. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z I never liked the r�le; it is heavy and uncongenial and altogether out of my line. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z The person whom Maria was marrying was neither more nor less than Manolito Lopez, that most impertinent and uncongenial of urchins! The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Or she may develop disagreeable and wholly uncongenial traits. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z But the little lamp which he had kindled went out in the uncongenial air. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z Such violent fights are authentically reported at merrymakings of the time, and as the aristocratic leader of such a brawl, Neidhart no doubt would find his subsequent residence among the peasants uncongenial. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z These uncongenial people had given me a good lesson. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z Thou dull, crystallised block, I will think of thee, and will remember thy solid virtues, when the uncongenial offices of man shall plague me no more! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z And with her, pride or anger was always of short duration, the sunny cheerfulness of her nature refusing to harbor such uncongenial guests. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z And, Grace, even inherited homesteads are sometimes as difficult as uncongenial kin. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z She was Unitarian, having so been taught, but speculative matters were out of her reach as well as uncongenial with her sphere. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Deplorable as such a condition undoubtedly is, it becomes doubly miserable from the cold, uncongenial and unsympathetic atmosphere by which she is surrounded, and the uncared-for neglect with which she is treated ever afterwards. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Park found the atmosphere of the camp uncongenial. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z He foresaw a further and still more difficult period of uncongenial work in front of him. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z It is unlike anything else in England; uncongenial with the English character, without privacy, destitute of mass, weight, and shadow, unsusceptible of ivy, lichens, or any mellowness from age.—II. Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook 2011-10-06T02:00:33.843Z Some time before the publication of the essay, Gibbon had entered a new and, one might suppose, a very uncongenial scene of life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z When we speak of dwarfing stocks, we mean such as are so uncongenial as to check the wood-growth; and thus, while producing smaller trees, they have a tendency to early fruitfulness if properly managed. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z I have never seen a man to whom the idea of jail was so entirely uncongenial! "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z We do not give our spirits credit for what they learn through adapting themselves to uncongenial companionship. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z She thought of her father—a man of intellectual abilities who had spent his life out of touch with his environment, in an uncongenial employment. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z The entire modern French school is strongly tinged with Wagnerism, but the essentially Teutonic nature of Brahms would seem to render his style absolutely uncongenial to a French mind. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Hence in speaking of dwarf pear trees, it does not follow that they have been worked on the quince or other uncongenial stock. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z "My dear sir, I should not, I imagine, have been entrusted with this very uncongenial errand unless I had been thought capable of carrying it out," replied Forsyth, in a tone of annoyance. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z I spent several days in this uncongenial work, with anything except benefit to my general condition. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z Had he remained he would be just about going over to Memorial for his supper at the ill-assorted and uncongenial "graduates' table" to which he had belonged. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z For wild flowers, like patriotism, seemingly reach their highest perfection amid conditions of soil and climate that are apparently most uncongenial. Fly Fishing in Wonderland 2011-09-01T02:00:22.230Z He had the year before lost his uncongenial although royal wife, Mary of England, and he was looking out for another bride. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z In the uncongenial soil of Pella it gradually dwindled away, losing first its influence and soon after its nationality. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z My system of criticism is naturally uncongenial to Mr. Matthew Arnold, but while he says so with characteristic vigour, he likewise speaks of this work with equally characteristic generosity, and I cordially thank him. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z In this uncongenial atmosphere, where the rays of the sun are seldom or never seen, Jemmy was as happy as a prince. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z "I don't care;" and Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z Indeed I have often conjectured, when full of neglect and its smarts, I must have been left on the door-step of their uncongenial hearts! City Ballads 2011-08-04T02:00:21.027Z The youth put to an uncongenial trade, the man or woman married to an unsuitable partner, may find no escape from the position and decide to bear it and forget its anxiety. Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge 2011-08-01T02:00:14.257Z In the winter, on the grip of a Chicago street car, he suffered the hardships of long hours and low pay for uncongenial work. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z The work was uncongenial and by way of escaping from it, after I had married, I removed to Mississippi and undertook the practice of law there. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z What crime have they committed that they should be imprisoned in the dirt and bad air and uncongenial fog of Sclater Street? Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z Lance nodded his head in recognition of the kindness of the man's intention, then silently commenced his laborious and uncongenial task. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Alone in this uncongenial home poor Nellie had a bad time of it. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z As a rule, new bricks and mortar create an environment particularly uncongenial to a self-respecting ghost. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z We should be sorry to make oath that apart from this pardonable discontent with her most uncongenial surroundings there was not another phase of canker eating into her mind and destroying its peace. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z However, she tried to make the best of an uncongenial arrangement which had resulted from blood relationship. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z Suppose I were a sempstress or a poor governess on her way to an engagement, should I not have to do the same?—to travel unattended; to take my chance of rough or uncongenial companionship? Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Even if he will prolong it, he must toil hard at some uncongenial drudgery till the end of his days—harder than the broad-arrow-wearing wretch, wheeling his barrow in the quarries of Portland. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Their reception, and the continuance of their names among the most honoured of its inhabitants, proved that the spot was neither ill-chosen, nor uncongenial. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z Why should he grind away at some dingy and uncongenial money-grubbing mill just for the fun of supporting your, or any other man’s, daughter. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z I presume more would make the venture if they found the atmosphere less uncongenial. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z Flood, as a matter of fact, would have much preferred the cattle to the uncongenial Nolai, but, apparently, her relations shared in this preference. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z The chamber was full of uncongenial, discordant people, whom death made equal. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z It was through Rice that there presently came to Reynolds that uncongenial business opening which in worldly wisdom he held himself bound to accept. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I am thinking of you toiling the day through, week in week out, at some sordid and uncongenial drudgery for a mere pittance. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z That these should cease after the execution of a person or persons with whom she had been in distressing and uncongenial rapport, was perhaps only a natural result from the action of universal laws. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Moreover, he had no intention of staying more than a short time should the life there prove uncongenial. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z The higher natures, acting from a wider conception of life, will do their best to do justice to the character, uncongenial though it may be, which happens to be assigned to them. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z He did not find the work uncongenial; he had no hankerings after other modes of life—in fact the thought of any change never even entered into his calculations. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z It was after several months of the most uncongenial toil that she finally gained recognition in "Cymbria." Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Rotha did not take to any of them; made no confident of any of them; and was felt by most of them to be somehow uncongenial. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z I only wonder that children bred up in such uncongenial homes come to be so much men and women as they are. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Then she suddenly exclaimed, 'You cannot imagine what it is, Dolly, to be linked to one so utterly uncongenial, you who are so fortunate in our dear Robert's perfect sympathy and knowledge of London life. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z The autobiography of Strindberg is largely inspired by his unreasoning hatred of women; the result, in the main, of his three unfortunate ventures into the uncongenial field of matrimony. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z It was based upon personal independence, upon family pride and upon intellect unhampered by personal toil in uncongenial occupations; and lastly upon sentiment. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Very poor as this home was, it was better than an unknown country, and uncongenial as were her companions, she preferred them to nobody. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z It not only drives girls into deception: it drives them into uncongenial marriages. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z To condemn a youth to pass the best years of his life at an uncongenial pursuit, to make the pursuit his calling, is a cruel injustice wherever it is knowingly inflicted. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z In spite however of all inspiration and of all support, sickness and uncongenial company impeded his hours of labour and corroded his hours of repose. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z I suppose there's something in fogs and perpetual rain and cold and darkness which is especially uncongenial to me. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z He remembered the sordid poverty, the struggle to maintain appearances, and the strain of forced attention to an uncongenial task, and asked himself half contemptuously why he had borne them so long. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z Ruth felt that she had assumed some responsibility in persuading him to undertake an uncongenial task; for if he proved unfitted for it, his troubles would be numerous. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z At first sight the material of the Carolingian Cycle, which formed the basis of the most considerable narrative poems of the Renaissance, seems uncongenial to the Italians. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Moreover he appealed strongly to those to whom the Coleridgean speculations were uncongenial. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z It must not be supposed that Helen, her first surprise over, submitted tamely to a life so utterly at variance with her former experiences and so uncongenial to her tastes. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z I quite understand how uncongenial I may be. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z This infatuation was inherited by Dante, and it was not uncongenial to his bitter and intemperate spleen. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The versatility of Lorenzo's talent showed itself to greater advantage when he quitted the uncongenial ground of sacred literature and gave a free rein to his fancy in the composition of Ballate and Carnival songs. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z From a wild chaos of uncongenial surroundings, these two women had dropped into a sphere in which they were perfectly at home. The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine 2011-03-15T02:00:14.097Z His success in this new and uncongenial sphere was soon assured. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z She soon tired, however, of such uncongenial companionship, and induced her grandmother to allow her to pursue alone her investigations of the corners and by-ways of Venice. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z His enigmatical manner is his protection against the intrusion of uncongenial minds. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z He managed to endure this uncongenial existence for three years, from February 20, 1522, till June, 1525, sustaining his spirits with correspondence and composition, and varying the monotony of his life by visits to Ferrara. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Lawmakers, though, are decidedly less optimistic about Mr. Scott’s budget plan, and even less enthusiastic about his uncongenial approach to Tallahassee. Florida Republicans at Odds With Their Leader 2011-03-08T03:01:01Z Then they separated, silent and gloomy—a household of eight years, even an uncongenial one, isn't broken up without the sense of finality weighing on its members. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z He had more than one reason for doing so, but perhaps the chief was that he found the atmosphere of Hanbridge Wesleyan chapel rather uncongenial. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z His intention was to outshine Millais, whom he found uncongenial as an artist, and whose work he prophesied would not survive a lifetime's popularity. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z She was, perhaps, too much repressed and chilled in childhood, by living with uncongenial persons. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z The long preparation and training, bought by privation and uncongenial toil, was over, and he was ready to apply himself to the scientific study of sacred letters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z For this very reason he has in later years felt, what was natively uncongenial to him—the great cities—differently and far more intensely than poets brought up in them. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Nevertheless she found joy in the uncongenial and ill-performed task—the cold, fierce joy of the nun in her penance. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Trafford found the opening campaign, the operation with the plantation shares and his explosion of Behrens' pretensions extremely uncongenial. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Some time after, the Jinn fell desperately in love with the Vizier’s daughter, and displayed his attachment in the rather uncongenial form of a viper. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z So the Factor was again left to his uncongenial thoughts. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Though by no means of uncongenial disposition, he affected to hold all amateur hunters in a kind of lordly contempt; and his conversation with such was always of a condescending character. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z There was, too, his very real fear for the future happiness of his boy, bound in marriage to a woman he believed would prove to be a most uncongenial mate. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z It gave her general expenditure a quality of concentration without involving any uncongenial limitation to suppose it aimed at the preparation of a statesman's circle whenever Trafford chose to adopt that assumption. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z He seemed to feel that it begat in him a certain condition of his being, which was most painful, and every way uncongenial to his natural, wonted self. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z She made a fatal mistake in peopling them with different and uncongenial races. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Moreover, there was much friction between Bret Harte and the new publisher of the “Overland,” who had succeeded Mr. Roman; and finally, the moral and intellectual atmosphere of San Francisco was uncongenial to him. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Whilst under the influence of feelings such as these, the society and the haunts of men were uncongenial to the poetic youth, and he usually sought out the wildest scenes of his native country. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z One window much admired for its felicitous combination of theoretically uncongenial colours is that which sets forth the legend of St. Hubert. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z Indeed, there was nothing left for me but acquiescence, hard and uncongenial as I found it. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z It is very hard to get over first impressions, and the repulsion of an entirely uncongenial countenance. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z It’s because an extremist ideology -- essentially, a refusal to abide by uncongenial election results -- has purchase on a much greater part of the right than anything like it does on the left. Threats reveal scary underpinnings of right-wing opposition 2010-03-25T13:26:00Z It is so hard to live with an uncongenial nature, isn’t it? Zula This avocation, uncongenial as it was to my college pursuits and feelings, still occupied my attention, and withdrew me from reflections of no very pleasing nature. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 Are we therefore to conclude that the best method of scientific education is to force a boy to work at uncongenial subjects? Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History I've practiced some already, and did not find the work hard, or uncongenial. The Man from Jericho I do not hate her, but that her nature is uncongenial to me I must own. A Sister's Love A Novel The difficulties they had with uncongenial brethren, their interior doubts and fears, and awful dread that such might one day cause them to fall away. Brother Francis Less than the least The impatience of restraint of which the Mackenzies spoke, and the dissatisfaction of which was to him, despite its luxuries, an uncongenial home, rendered him discontented. The Home Life of Poe It will strike them that words cut deeper than is their wont; that from that wild uncongenial imagery, thoughts emerge of singular truth and beauty. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. But uncongenial records are useless things, like stern lights. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion As the uncongenial task went on, Robert reflected disconsolately that his bid for freedom had not met with much success. The Gay Adventure A Romance The second vacant seat was across the round table, and she found herself sensible of a feeling of quarantine with an uncongenial companion, and wondering who would fill the empty space at her left. The Key to Yesterday He was said to have been recognized in other equally uncongenial occupations, but relief was at hand in the time of his sorest need. The Home Life of Poe The search for another involves reflection, which is uncongenial to the bustling people who describe themselves as practical, because they take things as they are and leave them as they are. The Acquisitive Society It settled his position among his strange, uncongenial companions. The Wreckers of Sable Island This sense of harmony never yokes uncongenial persons at table, except through unavoidable necessity. Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions He had never come in contact with its worship or its professors; and to his unimaginative, unimpassioned, and profoundly intellectual temperament, no ideal type could be more uncongenial than that of the saint. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 On the whole, both Garland and this stranger seemed uncongenial companions for Mr. Braden. The Land of Strong Men Proscribed and persecuted, the early Christians had not perhaps access to the public schools, nor inclination to studies which seemed, very excusably, uncongenial to the character of their profession. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Women were parasites, working only under constraint, badly and at uncongenial tasks; their right to live was based on their capacity to please. A Bed of Roses Her home, which had been uncongenial before, was now intolerable. With Edge Tools The heat had been tremendous; the country parched and unsympathetic; the associations terribly uncongenial. The Gambler A Novel But the confirmed habit of unquestioning obedience inherent in a Roman soldier led to an almost mechanical acceptance of his uncongenial task. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs I fell in with habits that were uncongenial, and tastes that I ever disliked; but without success. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) It had never struck her that employment might be difficult to find or uncongenial when one found it. A Bed of Roses The adult reared in a wild state shows many phases of vicious and uncongenial temper. The Speech of Monkeys Cervantes perforce remained at his post; the work was hard, uncongenial and ill-paid, and the salary was in constant arrears. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" If letters, or arguments with friends, flurried him, or awakened uncongenial thoughts or memories, he was capable of putting the letters away unread, and breaking off a friendship that had lasted for years. Lafcadio Hearn At that time, all is haste and suspense, and men and women are alike uncongenial. On the Heights A Novel A man enjoyed the possession of a beautiful and loving wife and a very uncongenial mother-in-law. Her Royal Highness Woman She would not, of course, willingly follow him, and his would once again be the uncongenial task of carrying her off by force if he was to succeed in his new venture. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel When his son came to Asolo, he was struck, as I was later, by the uncongenial outlook. Fragments of an Autobiography To Amenomori, as to others, Hearn poured out his despair at the uncongenial surroundings of Tokyo; he wanted new experiences, and Tokyo was not the place for them. Lafcadio Hearn To teach Latin and Greek verse at Brighton College, Cheltenham College, Reading Grammar School, successively, was the extremely uncongenial task imposed upon me by the chances of the universe. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. Carlyle did his duties as a schoolmaster punctiliously, but found the life thoroughly uncongenial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" And at the same moment Kitty recognised, beyond all possibility of doubt, Aunt Eliza—her own grim, harsh, uncongenial Aunt Eliza. Man and Maid He even put in a summer at uncongenial labor in order to earn money enough to buy three or four second-hand instruments. Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 The uncongenial climate, also, of Ohio did not suit his delicate constitution. Lafcadio Hearn Still, I had managed to muddle on through life somehow, and gain a living so far—which was satisfactory, but in an uncongenial and sedentary form of occupation—which was not. A Veldt Vendetta Naturally, under such uncongenial circumstances, there was little thought of social gathering or function, except in a very few of the larger towns, which refused to abandon their ways because of poverty. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) To-day I am Papa Péron, music publisher’s hack, earning a few shillings a week at a most uncongenial occupation. The Intriguers Countless boys have fled from the farm because they found the work monotonous, laborious and uncongenial, the hours long, the work unorganized and apparently unrewarding, the father or employer hard, exacting and unfeeling. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity The uncongenial circumstances of his present life faded into insignificance. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley Of his adventures in China, and the temporary prosperity he enjoyed there, while he held the somewhat uncongenial office of Provedor dos defuntos, i.e., The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem From another observer comes the story of the simple deeds of kindness done by a company of young people in Brooklyn to a young woman married to an elderly and uncongenial man. The Book of Courage Were two of the most uncongenial persons in the world to be thrown together on a desert island, would they have nothing to say to each other? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 A large continuity 543 of thought and effort was perhaps radically uncongenial to such a temperament; yet one cannot help speculating whether under other circumstances he might not have achieved it. The Intellectual Life In other letters he showed how he repented bitterly of having chosen a career so uncongenial. Rulers of India: Lord Clive Instead of being obliged to carry on an uncongenial occupation she could take Mr. Moxon's advice and go to study in Paris. Loyal to the School There would seem to be something uncongenial to obedience in any form in the life of an Irish peasant; something doubtless in the smell of the turf. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas You will observe that some persons, at the first encounter, bristle all over with uncongenial points; and yet, if you will quietly ignore these, or boldly rush upon them, you shall gain a true friend. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 There are thousands of unions as uncongenial as that of Hortense and Louis. Josephine Makers of History You choose to regard yourself a failure and grow morose because you have found the law uncongenial and because editors earn their salaries by returning your manuscripts. The Portal of Dreams Mr. Maurice, after all, is thrown away where he is: all his life he has been in an uncongenial position. The London Pulpit I noted some familiar faces in the pits, among them those of the lusty men on the St. Paul with the uncongenial room-mate. The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) These new guests presented a new scene, very uncongenial to the timid and tranquil spirit of the amiable hostess. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Louis Napoleon, the present President of the French Republic, is the only surviving offspring of this uncongenial union. Josephine Makers of History It was this feeling of being sullied and unnerved in the uncongenial skirmishings of the divorce that jarred on his sensitive nature and made his ambitious hand lose its cunning. Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition I suppose that he had been transferred to a new home which had proved uncongenial, and was slipping away, in fear and trembling, to his old quarters. Dog Stories from the "Spectator" being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power, affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the correspondence columns of "The Spectator" As the ways and restrictions of a settled invalid were repugnant to Stevenson’s character and instincts, so were the life and society of a regular invalid station depressing and uncongenial to him. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) One she rescued from "the uncongenial life of the workhouse;" another acted as an agent for her society; and she was specially interested in a third, both blind and deaf, now dead. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind The assize work was not familiar and was uncongenial to the chancery judges, who had but little training or experience to fit them for it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" How many beautiful, lovely-minded women do we meet in society, who are united, by marriage contract, with men whose tastes, habits and characters, cannot but be in every way uncongenial. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 Then there are those—I should not like to make a guess at their number—who will marry any man, however undesirable and uncongenial, rather than be left ‘withering on the stalk.’ Modern marriage and how to bear it Even when the college work was uncongenial, he never scamped it, but mastered the subject. James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports The quondam Parisian openly welcomed each stopping-place as an excuse to escape from such uncongenial companionship. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch After receiving a very limited education he was apprenticed to a linen manufacturer, but, finding the employment uncongenial, he resumed school-life at the institution founded by Wesley at Kingswood, near Bristol. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" But he performed his difficult and uncongenial task with almost incredible success, and is said never to have made an enemy or a mistake. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" That single cell contracts and recoils from the things in its environment uncongenial to its constitution, and the things congenial it draws to itself and absorbs. The Kempton-Wace Letters That they should think us uncongenial and distant would have been an obstacle to our success among them. James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports Curiously enough, it was the presence of humanity of the uncongenial type which alone had power to effect his reversion to the status of the brute. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies But in 1847 a sense of duty compelled him to take a far more laborious and uncongenial appointment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Colonel Arbuthnot was the agent employed in collecting these unfortunate people and sending them to Halifax, and being a gentleman of a humane disposition he doubtless found his task a most uncongenial one. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 Architecture.—In architecture the Chinese genius has found but limited and uncongenial expression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" This, perhaps, it was that drew him ever closer to Mr. Gladstone, while it made the House of Commons and the daily doings of politicians uncongenial. The History of Freedom The infantry officer lives mostly on army rations, and as often as not he sleeps in his muddy clothes, amid the noise of war, after a long shift crammed with uncongenial duties. Cavalry of the Clouds That Caroline of Brunswick was an uncongenial and unfitting consort; that she was an utterly unfit and improper person to occupy the exalted position of Queen of England, there can be no manner of doubt. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. And is there any more uncongenial club than the Human Race? The So-called Human Race She had only had the training of sordid care and uncongenial tasks and associations. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 He had a great dread of returning to the New World and settling down to the uncongenial work of the law, and he fancied he had some talent for art. Home Life of Great Authors She derives her title from the convenient habit of the desert rose of detaching itself from uncongenial or exhausted soil, subsiding into a compact mass and travelling before the wind to more profitable surroundings. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 The Regent seems never to have lost an opportunity of insulting his uncongenial and unfortunate wife. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Add to this the fact that cold, impenetrable subsoils are chemically uncongenial to vegetation, and we have sufficient evidence of the importance, and in many cases the absolute necessity of sub-soiling and under-draining. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools She was going to pass away for ever from uncongenial and odious companionship, and to live a life of sweet, proud, lonely independence. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 The only daughter of the uncongenial pair was not permitted to dwell permanently with either. Home Life of Great Authors It was to support an ailing wife, she felt sure, that he toiled at his uncongenial vocation. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 Small as is the respect or esteem which we owe to the memory of George the Fourth, we may almost sympathise with him when he calls such a consort “uncongenial.” English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Fruit can be raised on an uncongenial soil, by grafting into stocks adapted to that soil. Soil Culture Mr. Rackstraw was not a man of many words, so he had to fall back upon the same very often or hold his tongue: a course uncongenial to him. When Ghost Meets Ghost But the clerk in charge seemed to find something uncongenial in his proposal. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman If I were too old and too uncongenial for your husband, I should still have remembered that I was the Prince of that country to which you came, a visitor and a child. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) It was maddening to think of the unhappy Professor still fretting away hour after hour in the uncongenial form of a mule, waiting impatiently for the relief that never came. The Brass Bottle The uplands being uncongenial for corn, ponies, sheep and black cattle are reared, for fattening in the Midlands of England and sale in London. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Something had happened to this fillah when he was a boy, and anything like a ghost was uncongenial to him. When Ghost Meets Ghost He believed it shared by her in the secret of her uncongenial conjugal life. Aurora the Magnificent He is a mixture of gloom and sarcasm, chastened, however, by good breeding, and with a vein of original genius that makes some atonement for the unheroic and uncongenial cast of his whole mind. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) His best fun is quite intelligible; his worst not wholly uncongenial. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 He bit his lip and frowned, strongly tempted deliberately to sidestep a task so uncongenial. The Monk of Hambleton He escaped from this uncongenial employment to be dependent on an uncle, and thus early exhibited his life-long disposition to rely upon others for support. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) His needs were simple, and he could live without applying himself to uncongenial work, though the allowance had been stopped, and the income, as Leslie had said, was incredibly small. Aurora the Magnificent Thus he seemed doomed to spend the remainder of his days in employment which proved to him increasingly uncongenial. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series Readers, who measure the beauty of a district by its average height above the sea-level, and who cannot appreciate the charm of a 'waste enormous marsh,' may find Crabbe uncongenial. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) She simply acted as she had acted all her life—doing what she liked best—refraining from doing what was uncongenial—what did not amuse her. East of the Shadows Even the resistless physical energy which the clear faith in the life hereafter has so often imparted, becomes something uncongenial to the ripened religious meditation. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion But when the harrowing recital was finished, his character seemed to assume a tone of energy uncongenial with his present state of malady. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. Carlingford passed away like a dream from the lively old mother's memory, and how could any reminiscences of that uncongenial locality disturb the recovered beatitude of the Fellow of All-Souls? The Rector The greatest minds in both classes are equally marked by their naturalisation in the lofty regions of thought, inaccessible or uncongenial to men of inferior stamp. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) A dull amount of conversation, often interrupted by that lively little woman, rose in the uncongenial party. The Doctor's Family He had a sister, lately, if not still, living, from whom, though of a very uncongenial nature, something might surely have been gathered. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir Yes, her people lived in Michigan but were uncongenial. The Gorgeous Girl She is very prolific in "ideas," and seems to be chiefly inspired when engaged in the uncongenial pastime of cleaning the grate. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 Whenever we penetrate to the underlying character, we find something harsh and uncongenial mixed with very high qualities. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) This is taken advantage of in planting varieties on uncongenial soils after they have been grafted on a vine which finds itself at home in the particular soil. Manual of American Grape-Growing People are, as has been pointed out, driven by the stupidity of the teaching system into all kinds of uncongenial employment. The Curse of Education Catharine retired with her child to the colder and more uncongenial regions of the northern declivity of the mountains. Henry IV, Makers of History Tunic� often avails himself of a pollito when he happens to be afflicted with an uncongenial partner, or one whose manner of dancing does not satisfy him! The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba She contracted later an uncongenial marriage; he seems to have turned with intense ardor to religion. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Sometimes the burden assigned to him was uncongenial; none the less, he would shoulder it manfully. War Letters of a Public-School Boy "I didn't know it mattered, as long as we all got washed," said Penelope, and finding the atmosphere uncongenial, began edging away. The Carroll Girls This is all true; but many cannot reconcile themselves at first to the fact, to the uncongenial milieu, to this modest resolve, especially such responsive and enthusiastic women as yourself. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 Barbara seemed chilled by uncongenial company, though she touched his hand on her way to the door and turned, with patent consciousness that she was being watched, to give him a parting smile. The Education of Eric Lane But to men of delicate nerves it was not sharing Truth's crust that made the difficulty so much as the other uncongenial company at her august table. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History In August, 1916, Paul Jones was relieved of his uncongenial duties with the Supply Column and appointed to command an ammunition working-party located at an advanced railhead in the terrain of the Somme battles. War Letters of a Public-School Boy All of his sisters were distinctly wrapped up in their own affairs; Robert and he were temperamentally uncongenial. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel The amount of uncongenial, if not repulsive labour that he must have performed when he was studying the old law-books is marvellous. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice She had been very busy one evening with this rather uncongenial occupation, and had barely finished the necessary counting and arranging, when the bell rang for preparation. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life But he found law as uncongenial a study as divinity. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Mr. Boon, who prepared him in mathematics, testified that Paul had "worked with interest and energy" at what was for him an uncongenial subject. War Letters of a Public-School Boy It is not here possible to convey an adequate impression of his fiery spirit, his long heart-hunger, and the magnitude of the loss which a wholly uncongenial marriage must ever mean to such a man. Australian Writers The topic was not an uncongenial one to the members of the sewing-circle, who had really very little to talk about. A Bookful of Girls At the end of that time, if these two well-meaning but uncongenial people decide that it is wisest to part, 'Kitty Quixote' will be sent to you, to do with as you see fit. The Brass Bound Box I work harder on these uncongenial rôles than upon any other. The Light of the Star A Novel And the doves, glad to escape from such uncongenial surroundings, whirred upwards with the car and, after a few tentative circles, took it clear over the battlements. In Brief Authority This duty was made so irksome to him that, upon one occasion, he exclaimed in desperation that he preferred to resign his position rather than to continue such an uncongenial task. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century This, I must confess, gave me a rather gloomy impression of Russia, and accounted in some measure for the grave and uncongenial aspect of the people. The Land of Thor And duty had asked much of her during these last few years—exile, privations, uncongenial tasks, and the mothering of eight orphans. 'Lizbeth of the Dale You are quite right, I shall never do my best work so long as I am forced to assume such uncongenial rôles. The Light of the Star A Novel The whole production appears like a forced and uncongenial effort. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months There liberty ended, and the girl was transported into a novel and most uncongenial sphere. Famous Women: George Sand And I am not sure but that the discipline of little cares and uncongenial work that has come upon you this winter, may answer the purpose quite as well. The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened A week spent amid uncongenial surroundings and without communication from home, reduced her to a state of pitiable depression. The Scarlet Feather She rather hoped perhaps to find some sort of satisfaction by way of reward for the brave discharge of an uncongenial duty. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius All obstacles in the way of severing uncongenial marriages should be removed, because such unions are unnatural, and must be evil in their results. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I He set himself to his uncongenial work with a heart that revolted against the evil cause of which he was about to constitute himself the champion. The Perpetual Curate He had the pleasant consciousness of an uncongenial task conscientiously performed, and without its anticipated unwelcome results being left behind. A Bachelor's Dream Choosing the lesser of two evils, it is better to run the risk of offending than to jeopardize the flow of talk by inviting uncongenial people. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it She moved about undecidedly, and it occurred to Esther that the task she was contemplating was an uncongenial one, though why it should be so was not apparent. Juggernaut The very annoyances and constraints of propinquity are in their own way disciplinary, and insistent, uncongenial persons, like glaring red buoys with clanging bells, serve at least to keep us in the fairway of navigation. Apologia Diffidentis In company with the other children he had been set at the task of learning his letters, and at first he, too, had rebelled at the uncongenial labor. The Doomsman We reached Newcastle in plenty of time, for the boat was not due to sail before early next morning, and I felt relieved at being at last rid of my uncongenial companion. The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance For nine long months the ex-officer had sought employment, indoor or outdoor, congenial or uncongenial. Anthony Lyveden Confronted with an uncongenial task, you slunk away from it and shielded yourself behind the sophistry that the work was unworthy of you. Master of the Vineyard Meanwhile, though uncongenial to my kind as entering little into their pleasures, I like to be near them in their grief or happiness, standing unnoticed in the wind of their fortune's wheel. Apologia Diffidentis Before they came they knew that they were to wrest their living from an uncongenial soil, to struggle with penury and to conquer only by constant toil and self-denying thrift. The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907 Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn. The Utilitarians, as we shall see, were too much disposed to overlook the difference, and attempt to apply purely legal doctrine in the totally uncongenial sphere of ethical speculation. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. He had made a fatal mistake in leaguing himself with uncongenial partners, and began to feel that this mistake must be expiated by the ruin of his present venture. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm This life he soon found uncongenial, and decided on becoming a mining engineer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Yet to flee from this uncongenial future and seek one more to his liking did not occur to Martin Howe. The Wall Between The story of his marriage is slightly pathetic, but more than slightly ludicrous, and he appears to have been greatly henpecked as well as obliged to lead an uncongenial life at a country living. A History of Elizabethan Literature After the departure of these uncongenial colleagues, Hamilton might have acted with power, had he not known too well that the sentiment of his state did not support him. The Critical Period of American History The monarchs, utterly uncongenial, were struggling to act in harmony, but double weakness is not strength. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) A grown-up daughter might wish to become a votary, perhaps in preference to an uncongenial marriage, and it seems that her father could not refuse her wish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The Editor became by degrees almost equally indifferent to what he perceived to be so uncongenial to Arthur’s mind. Spare Hours Laura has no one but an uncongenial stepmother, and that is the reason we are so intimate. Ladies-In-Waiting Growing up in this uncongenial atmosphere, James became entirely uncontrollable. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) Poets are proverbial for uncongenial marriages, and to this Poe can scarcely be classed as an exception. Stories of Authors, British and American Finding military service uncongenial, he obtained a discharge and devoted himself to literature. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) The step seemed familiar, yet incongruous and uncongenial; it was followed by a knock, and, going forward, Crabbe opened the door to Ringfield. Ringfield A Novel Such homes as theirs and such occupations as theirs have very little in common with hard, uncongenial work such as mine. The Chautauqua Girls At Home I earned it, my dear lady, in hard and uncongenial toil. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern He was thinking of the fate that had consigned him to a perilous and uncongenial task. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War The twentieth century is uncongenial to anything of that sort. The Mystery of the Green Ray Was it not as it had always been—hateful, uncongenial, difficult? Ringfield A Novel Return to two months more of the uncongenial drudgery from which he had been so glad to escape? Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Crushed as she was in spirit by her uncongenial surroundings, Dorothy still had enough 195 temper left to be furiously angry. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Much of that period had been passed in travelling, much more in exhausting and uncongenial negotiation in the Egyptian capital. The Life of Gordon, Volume II We use the language of England," continues the lady, "and receive in torrents the influence of her thought, yet it is, in many respects, uncongenial and injurious to our constitution. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Lord Palmerston took what most people would have thought the uncongenial office of Home Secretary. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Young and brave, pining in uncongenial society, and debarred from the employment of his talents, Charles seized this opportunity of release. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Without being cemented by this element the conjugal union is sure to be uncongenial. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources As there was not, he fell back on the hope that he might be able to discharge his uncongenial duties for a brief period, and then seek some convenient opportunity of retiring. The Life of Gordon, Volume II She retraced her steps in that dreary book, again and again, patiently, forcing her mind to the uncongenial task. Vixen, Volume III. Some of the better class of members invited him to their houses and he went occasionally, and if he found them uncongenial he never went again. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Hitherto she had only beheld him neglected in his uncongenial home circle, contemning and contemned, or else subjected to the fretting torment of Lucilla’s caprice. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Some of the truly happiest people I have ever known have been so in spite of the most uncongenial surroundings you can imagine.' Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls It was by behaviour such as this, by his almost diabolical ingenuity in the art of being uncongenial, that Rupert had so largely contributed to make his own house impossible to him. The Light of Scarthey Besides, he must clear himself of 271 suspicion, and because the part of a mere looker-on was uncongenial, there was a course which she would urge on him. Prescott of Saskatchewan You will sacrifice all your ambition and take up the drudgery of teaching in an uncongenial sphere for the rest of your life?” Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls It was quite a delight to me, as I listened, to recall my own dislike of his style of speaking, his fishy coldness, his uncongenial and unsympathetic politeness, and his insufferable though most gentlemanly artificiality. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete They tried to make a doctor of him, and he studied medicine just long enough to discover that the profession was uncongenial, and abandoned it. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier I'm sure it was the first Christmas any of us had spent in such an uncongenial way. The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland The children try her, and she is so pretty it seems a pity for her to be tied down to uncongenial employment. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays I can see quite well that my presence is uncongenial to you all. Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School Thoughts of our "scrap" had entirely left us, for Bennett and I had before us one of the most uncongenial tasks that an officer can have. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France The illustrious poets also, annoyed by the platitude of prose, speedily relinquished their uncongenial task. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 An uncongenial chill began to pervade the room. The Varmint She should only force herself to do her best in uncongenial tasks if circumstances make it impossible for her to obtain a better nurse or teacher for her infant than she herself could be. Three Things Their sojourn at the hotel may be somewhat irksome, and uncongenial; still they are safe. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea When he lay down at night in the company of men whom in ordinary times he would never think of associating with, he was so tired that he forgot the uncomfortable surroundings and uncongenial society. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War For one chance of success there are a dozen of failure; for you are trying to raise a special product from a soil probably uncongenial, or a fruit from an alien stem—figs from vines. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life The birds of Canada differ little from those of the same names in Europe, but the severe climate is generally uncongenial to them. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) But Mr. Abbott has disposed of the uncongenial theme with his accustomed ingenuity and good sense. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Seeing that there will be no difficulty in yet clearing the point, his anger cools down, and he is but too glad to withdraw from an angry discussion uncongenial to his nature. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Her life at Mrs Lambert's was not uncongenial to her, and she rose daily in the old lady's favour. Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century Such a task—the critic will say—would have been uncongenial to him. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Her companions in No. 7 were also uncongenial. The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life A thin, angular woman, with pale green eyes and straight, tight lips, she had never been beautiful, but five or six years in an uncongenial environment had hardened and wasted her. Jack O' Judgment If not, and our wedded bondage prove uncongenial, why, then, I may release you in the way you wish, or any other that seems suitable. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The latter had been so uncongenial in accent and tone that she had hesitated about becoming my instructor on that account. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch But the political troubles of the time made Lombardy an uncongenial home for any artist, and Leonardo, with a few pupils, went to Florence and then on to Rome. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture In books, but not those of a monastic library, he found salvation; mathematics, astronomy, law, Latin, Greek consoled him during his period of uncongenial seclusion. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Seek, and consciously endeavour, to appropriate into your character uncongenial excellences, and be very charitable in your judgments of the different types of Christian conformity to Christ our Lord. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Father and I are wholly uncongenial and we fight on the slightest provocation. Mary Louise Solves a Mystery Of course the relationship is not established for life; and the missionary who finds herself paired off with an uncongenial fellow worker may console herself by hoping that a change will come soon. Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries Indeed, Alene herself could not define what was, in reality, the dismay any hostess might feel if called upon to entertain a group of people which she knows to be utterly uncongenial. Peggy-Alone But Mr. Courtney remained intellectually alert, and was a determined champion of the cause of progress, even amid the uncongenial society of a West of Ireland town. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 In a spirit of self-sacrifice, therefore, he made ready to exchange his comfortable exile for one more uncongenial and of course more bitter. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) She was going to a foreign land with no companion but a strange and uncongenial man whom fate had imposed upon her in the guise of a parent. Mary Louise Solves a Mystery Loyalty in Ireland is of slow growth, and the soil is uncongenial. Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics If much of Helen’s work was uncongenial it at least had the merit of developing useful traits. The Man from the Bitter Roots They could not even realize their own plan of life in the midst of uncongenial mores. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals He found the profession of medicine uncongenial, and finally abandoned it altogether for science, serving for many years as professor of chemistry and botany at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. American Men of Mind Each house-mistress had authority to suspend games, if necessary, so she was compelled to pass a weary afternoon at a most uncongenial occupation. The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life And she grubs away at perfectly uncongenial work, and lives with this fusty old mother in a fusty little lodging-house. Jewel Weed And the sweet angel-like Hélène, who had willingly crossed the ocean and exiled herself from the life she loved to these uncongenial surroundings. A Little Girl in Old Quebec I wanted something better, but to find it I had to have the means, and means could only be had by the most uncongenial work. David Malcolm He came so little into town, and mixed so little with the uncongenial life and company it offered, that he was ignorant of its prevailing fashion, pastime, and vice—gambling. A Girl of the Klondike Never had anything been more uncongenial to him. The Lost Girl Break your bonds, and, unhampered by uncongenial ties, seek in another climate for that peace of mind you will never enjoy here or elsewhere as his wife.' The Forsaken Inn A Novel Want of Love.—The general conclusion will be that jealousy is more the result of wrong conditions which cause uncongenial unions, and which through moral corruption, artificially create distrust, than a necessary accompaniment of love. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage Food prepared by man, and often ill chosen, combined with the inclemency of an uncongenial climate—these eventuate in modifications sufficiently profound to become constant and hereditary in successive generations. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Then," he added, "we are so uncongenial—at least this morning. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 But the roving spirit within him soon caused him to break away from an occupation so uncongenial. The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas Business called Allan, for a time, to his old home in C, and to his uncongenial life there. Janet's Love and Service The latter supposition was the more bitter of the two; and goaded by it and one or two other uncongenial thoughts, I paid frequent visits to the “refreshment-room,” where wine flowed freely. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Thirty takes lightly enough the foregoing of a Saturday reunion, the uncongenial spending of a Sunday; but seventy can see the end of the series, and grudges every unit of the total that remains. The Nebuly Coat Both these posts were uncongenial to his nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 The Marjorie of a year ago would not have answered the challenge of her husband to prove herself an honorable woman by taking over a long, hard, uncongenial task. I've Married Marjorie A common difficulty with me when I witness stage tragedies arising out of a marriage of uncongenial types is to understand how the couple ever came together. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 From this it appears, that to tell the truth in these matters was not always an uncongenial duty. Mary Wollstonecraft But it is time for one pipe on deck and a last look at the somewhat uncongenial sea, then to a bed, three or four inches too narrow. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah Still, he goes "where glory waits him," so what recks he that the hour is altogether uncongenial and inconvenient? The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 And I find very few environments wholly uncongenial. Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch We could not live together half slave and half free; shall we succeed better in trying a second left-handed marriage between democracy and another form of aristocracy, less gross, but not less uncongenial? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays Her surroundings were uncongenial, her duties distasteful, and she was disapproved of by her employer. Mary Wollstonecraft Then at least, if never before, he wished himself back at his uncle's house in Smyrna, uncongenial as it was otherwise. The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus Adams may not have been above the uncongenial task of soliciting votes, but he kept safely within the moral domain which his conscience marked out. Union and Democracy The best place in the world is the home, and in proportion as home life is unsatisfactory or uncongenial, so in proportion are the Clubs filled with dissatisfied and unhappy men. Dollars and Sense Politeness as well as pity impel one to be especially polite to the caller or visitor who is uncongenial, or stupid, or unattractive. The Etiquette of To-day The atmosphere of a library is uncongenial with them. An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition This is the kind of discord I have to bear, corresponding to your uncongenial company. Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston But affluence, or the air of the Cromwell Road, seemed uncongenial to the Muse. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Having by that time become weary of this uncongenial mode of life, he obtained permission from the king to pay a visit to his old residence at Barnesdale. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 Finding the legal profession uncongenial, he soon relinquished it; and entering upon the married state in 1836, he has since resided at Kelso. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century No good work can be accomplished in uncongenial employment. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics But then Eugenia had seemed to find France as strange and uncongenial as Barbara now considered Russia. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army But class distinction had not then crystallized into cast, into immiscible, uncongenial yet co-ordinate elements of a so called revealed constitution. Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya We follow him a little higher, to the house of the Woodbridge surgeon, then through his prolonged courtship of Sarah Elmy, then to those dreary, uncongenial duties of piling up butter casks on Slaughden Quay. Immortal Memories “Better even that, than to grow old in uncongenial company,” said Hadria. The Daughters of Danaus He was no longer the awkward lout, stolidly working at uncongenial toil. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls “But, major, if you do condemn me to his company, please let us have Mafuta again, for Wilkins and I are like two uncongenial stones, and he acts as lime to keep us together.” Hunting the Lions Raventik, reckless as usual, sprang down with a mighty lump, but finding the atmosphere below uncongenial, hurled it towards his predecessors, and sprang up again for a fresh supply, watering at the eyes and choking. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice Hundreds of young men and women drag along in comparative poverty and uncongenial occupations and surroundings, because they have never learned how to get away from these conditions. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony A while ago you were angry with me because I was driven to waste my time with people uncongenial to me. April's Lady A Novel Probably, however, it was thought needless to express what might be inferred, or to caution against a practice so uncongenial with the christian duties of a monk. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Vondel had no other master but his genius, which, with his uncongenial situation, occasioned all his errors. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 It is satisfactory, in these days of uncongenial relations between master and servant It is effective, in the admirable arrangements of the household. Gryll Grange But cares and occupations of a nature peculiarly uncongenial with the indulgence of sentimental sorrows, now claimed, and not in vain, the serious-273--vol ii- thoughts of this prudent and vigilant princess. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth It is not an uncongenial soil for the average Russian. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Give them money, and they squander it; place them in situations of trust, and they are dismissed as incompetent, or they throw them up as uncongenial to their tastes. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia I had not the most remote idea that it would make a young lady commence such an uncongenial pursuit.” The Rajah of Dah The few boarding houses were crowded, and with an uncongenial lot as a rule. A Wounded Name Queen Mab and the Owl found him uncongenial, and flew away again. 'That Very Mab' Whenever our work galls us, whenever we feel it to be a drudgery and uncongenial, the friction grinds life away at a terrible rate. Pushing to the Front She had no rule by which to estimate the suffering which comes from poverty and separation, from solitary and uncongenial toil. Christie Redfern's Troubles No park can be beautiful unless the trees which adorn it are healthy, and no tree is healthy which suffers from uncongenial climatic conditions and insufficient nourishment. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 An unknown stranger, and a self-confessed failure so far in his young life, and yet he seemed so good a sight to her amid these uncongenial surroundings! A Voice in the Wilderness His private happiness was marred by an uncongenial marriage. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Half the world seems to have found uncongenial occupation, as though the human race had been shaken up together and exchanged places in the operation. Pushing to the Front He was evidently strange to the place, and looked about him with an air of perplexity, which made it clear that he was in the midst of unfamiliar and uncongenial scenes. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found A population thus originating, a community thus founded, were naturally uncongenial to the aristocratic element of the Old Dominion. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 So he rode away into the sunset once more with just another look and a hand-clasp, and she turned, strangely happy at heart, to go back to her dull surroundings and her uncongenial company. A Voice in the Wilderness With deep shame Blair saw how unchristian had been his thoughts and acts towards his uncongenial associates. The Boy Patriot You may be forced to drudge at uncongenial toil for a time, but emancipate yourself as soon as possible. Pushing to the Front That seems to me very hard—to be unselfish and take up uncongenial work, and then to meet with nothing but failure and disappointment! A Houseful of Girls Don’t make things harder by drifting into uncongenial surroundings. Betty Trevor He was a man of sordid life and without morality; but he was true to his life's purpose, and toiled at uncongenial tasks rather than write at other bidding than that of his own soul. Heroes of Modern Europe The labour was immense, prolonged, uncongenial; but it completed his knowledge of the customs, rules, maxims, and currents of trade and it bore good fruit in future days at the exchequer. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 “Right you are,” replied Douglas; and he began his meal with a very excellent appetite despite the uncongenial surroundings. Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru It was uncongenial work for a sunny Saturday. Just Patty He felt uncomfortable in being separated from Reginald at all, especially when the latter was left single-handed in such an uncongenial atmosphere as that breathed by Mr Durfy and Barber. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life However, we decided to ignore this uncongenial influence, and bury our sorrows in “Our Novel.” Boycotted And Other Stories Fisher minor, on the uncongenial topic of the rabbit, found composition difficult and punctuation impossible. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth Like the faun of Hawthorne's mythical tale, he loved Nature in all her moods; but Gallatin appears to have wearied of the confinement and of his uncongenial companions. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII It's simply flying from the very comfortable and congenial and normal present into a dark limbo that is deucedly uncomfortable, uncongenial, and abnormal. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story How, he wondered, was the poor fellow getting on that moment in his distant uncongenial work? Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life I soon reassured her; and that moment was the first of a confidence and intimacy seldom seen between our uncongenial races. Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain Instead of delicately nursing the theoretic life in the luxury of the academic cloister, he was forced to work like a slave upon the most uncongenial tasks for a very modest share of daily bread. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs The industrial development of the State was in the direction of small farming, manufacturing and commerce, all of which were uncongenial to slavery. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 To both the girls it was uncongenial though necessary work. For the Sake of the School I went back to America and piled into a work, entirely uncongenial, but determined to win out. Molly Brown's Orchard Home But even where the employment was at first uncongenial, a strict sense of duty and a strong determination to master the difficult and to like the disagreeable, conquered in the end. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success In his ardor for science all the uncongenial experiences of his life as a bank clerk vanished. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work The farm had been captured only a few days before by our Cavalry, and we had the uncongenial task of burying the bodies of those who had been killed in the attack. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion But in the meantime it was only Friday, and till at least the following Monday she would be obliged to endure her uncongenial presence in her bedroom. For the Sake of the School These types are most easily influenced by their surroundings, and become morbid and depressed when they are forced to live in gloomy and uncongenial conditions. Palmistry for All Many an uncongenial task was forced upon me, but I can honestly say I never shirked it. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Yet there may be good reasons why we should sacrifice any mere impulse of choice and exert ourselves to manifest a hospitable spirit toward certain people who are most uncongenial to us. Etiquette Ernest does not care for it, and if it be of an uncongenial kind, he wraps himself in a mantle of reserve, that neither sun nor wind can unfold. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author The poetical humorist must be allowed a certain license in dealing with facts; and poor Hawthorne, in the uncongenial atmosphere of the Liverpool Custom-house, had doubtless much to suffer from a thick-skinned generation. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The crisp facts came out with force but with no malignity, and Lansing Hertford dropped his eyes as he replied: "Aunt Olive has told me they were very uncongenial." A Son of the Hills We justify our hatred for uncongenial people till we have fairly faced the truth that love is the law of our being, and that we must love our neighbor. Girls and Women Fortunately, if the blunder is made of introducing uncongenial people they can easily drift apart again without rudeness on the part of either. Etiquette The atmosphere is one of strenuous profanity, most uncongenial to the unhappy infantry. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 He continued in it for more than six years, first at Annan and then at Kirkcaldy; but he was soon finding it uncongenial and rebelling against it. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies Upon its dry and uncongenial difficulties Mr. Adams had been employed with his wonted industry for upwards of four years; he now spoke of the result modestly as "a hurried and imperfect work." John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series Schism, mutual alienation, antagonism, competition, are uncongenial to the spirit of the gospel, which seeks "that they all may be one." A History of American Christianity It was almost as though the two were in league against her, just as children get in league against an adult who insists on unpleasant duties or uncongenial food. The Beach of Dreams Soon after its publication, he succeeded in procuring employment on the daily newspaper press of Montreal, which enabled him to give up his uncongenial labor at the work-bench. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Board work was always uncongenial to him, and the subject was, of course, unfamiliar; but he gave his best efforts to the cause and did other voluntary work in London. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies In any European combinations, said Mr. Adams, in which the United States should become a member, she must soon become an important power, and must always be, in many respects, an uncongenial one. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series That it was a very struggling, difficult, and uncongenial life to him can be well understood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
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