| 单词 | uncouthness |
| 例句 | Hat is meant to be amusing in his goofy uncouthness; Orange the hard-bitten but soft-hearted maternal type, the salt of the peaty earth. | 'Orange, Hat & Grace': A Salt-of-the-Earth Romance Amid Shadows of the Apocalypse 2010-09-23T02:01:00Z She is an acute, sympathetic observer of Chinese society, skilled at capturing the discomforts, hypocrisies and uncouthness of everyday life, and the way that guilt and grievance corrode relationships. The Bathing Women by Tie Ning – review 2013-03-22T08:00:01Z But uncouthness turns out to have its virtues. We don't need a Die Hard 'origin' story 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Your behaviour on your visit to Devon during April was staggering in its uncouthness and lack of grace. Motherlode: What Not to Say to a Daughter-in-Law 2011-07-05T14:32:27Z Seidel began his career in the early sixties, the era of confessional poetry, but he had nothing except his own perceived uncouthness to confess. Fredrick Seidel’s Ballsy Blasphemy 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z It makes us laugh at accidents not agreeable to those who suffer them, at uncouthness, ignorances, solecisms, inferiorities, follies, blunders, stupidities, unconsciously displayed weaknesses and faults. Mariquita A Novel 2012-04-24T02:00:19.737Z The uncouthness that so often mars her language is partly due to an unreconciled feud between her intellect and her heart. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Space, illumined for the first time by their radiance, revealed itself in all its uncouthness. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Plainness and uncouthness in humans only too often belie noble mind or disposition. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z There was an awkwardness, almost an uncouthness, that would have been tragic, Tom thought, anywhere but in the haven of a clan. The Way of Decision 2011-10-01T02:00:34.357Z Their uncouthness was endured when they were in health, and when they fell sick they were cared for with somewhat the same charity and forbearance that would be shown a naughty, unruly child. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z In Australia, they are turned out while you wait, with all the uncouthness of their fathers. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Having forwarded the e-mail that described her behaviour as "staggering in its uncouthness and lack of grace" to her friends, it then went viral, attracting attention from around the world. Is the manners e-mail correct? 2011-06-30T14:35:45Z Bastien-Lepage, whom those who envied him affected to regard as dedicated wholly to the reproduction of rustic uncouthness, had no equal in catching the radiance of feminine charms, even in their subtlest manifestations. Bastien Lepage 2011-06-28T02:00:12.150Z The man seemed to realize his uncouthness, for he suddenly took off his hat, and his face became serious. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z My security against his attempts lay in the uncouthness and deformity which nature had bestowed upon his person and visage, rather than in the firmness of my own principles. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z It is true that at first the uncouthness and eccentricity were less prominent. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z One is faithfully to imitate the original, sparing not in the least vulgarity, uncouthness, and coarseness. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Pardon the uncouthness of the remark, but please bear in mind that I am no butcher. Overshadowed A Novel 2011-05-07T02:00:24.483Z This trait of physical vigour was manifested in each of his muscular sons, and, despite their slow and lank uncouthness, their movements suggested latent elasticity. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z It might naturally signify a hill-dweller or highlander as well as something large, but either would easily give rise to the derivative idea of uncouthness and rusticity. The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 2011-03-21T02:00:12.857Z His judgments, which have received as much praise for their accuracy as abuse for their clumsiness and uncouthness, fill a small library. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z The muscular impetuosity of the one who was leading his trumps with a flourish that suggested swinging a pickaxe amused David more than it offended by its uncouthness. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z She did not intend to give the preference to the elder brother; his exterior repelled her, while his uncouthness horrified and his conversation bored her. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z His talking about the desert had, as it were, softened his uncouthness, and had made him of a sudden surprisingly intelligible. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z The idea of "country" is always attached to it in my mind, with a degree of "uncouthness" added. The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 2011-03-21T02:00:12.857Z His science and literary skill are purchased by their ignorance and uncouthness of manner and of speech. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z But he is too much in earnest to heed uncouthness; and his power over language is too great to allow uncertainty as to what he means, to be other than occasional. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. The roughness had been a little overdone, but it had added nothing to his own uncouthness. Ayala's Angel He may save you soiling your fingers; but the real attractiveness of certain things is inseparable from their uncouthness, their downright ugliness. The Vagabond in Literature In that region it always carried the idea of roughness or uncouthness, and it developed a derivative—"hoosiery"—which was used as an adjective or adverb to indicate something that was rough, awkward or shiftless. The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 2011-03-21T02:00:12.857Z I refuse to be envious of the intelligence of foxes and coyotes, and I will always resent uncouthness and mean thoughts. A Top-Floor Idyl The uncouthness of the sound astonished every one. Toilers of the Sea The stark emphasis placed upon his illiteracy and uncouthness did more harm than good. Command Her friends from Amarillo must be quietly laughing in secret over what Sue had said regarding the uncouthness of the Captain and the lack of breeding of the “Cattle Queen.” Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure The word "Hoosier" always had the sense of roughness or uncouthness in its early use. The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 2011-03-21T02:00:12.857Z Ignorance and uncouthness may put on the garb of modest merit, and worthlessness seek to veil itself by an unattractive exterior; but under never so many layers the truth remains intact. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 He sought her acquaintance, and, in spite of all his rugged uncouthness, his most remarkable violin playing, with its combination of great originality, force and tenderness, speedily won her artist's heart. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. He simply kept telling it over again in the excitement of the conversation, meaning to explain to his listeners what a remarkable fellow the smith was, in spite of his uncouthness. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Thus I can tell myself, not without pride, that I have added a fresh stumbling-block for English readers, and to a page of print in my native tongue have lent a new uncouthness. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) Barnriff, viewed from a distance, was not without a certain picturesqueness; but the distance had to be great enough to lose sight of the uncouthness which a close inspection revealed. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country A few lines here and there, but pages devoted to descriptions of western life with its ignorance and uncouthness.” The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West The pedantry and uncouthness of Walter Harte had precluded him from ever being a favourite xlv with the public; Shenstone had not yet risen into fame; and Lyttelton was engrossed by politics. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir Tonet had something about him that distinguished him from the uncouthness and clumsiness of the others—of the other. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore There was a repose, too, and a gentleness in her bearing that made him think, by contrast, of his Cleo, and of the uncouthness of Alice and Mary when they attempted to be stately. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real He knew that even in England a lad brought up among women was apt to develop a quarrelsome uncouthness, a bearishness, intolerable among men of the world. The Wild Geese This was owing to our own shyness and uncouthness, you understand, not to any disfavour with which we looked upon matrimony as an abstract thing. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand He had some uncouthness, some natural self-possession of the Brangwens, that made him at home there. The Rainbow “An’ who the blanky blank are you?” he exclaimed, with all his native uncouthness. The Tale of Timber Town She told him not to be a silly boy; that he was, underneath his uncouthness, really a dear, but that he didn't know women. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Store Thompson had endured the youth's uncouthness with his usual serenity, but one day Mike asked twice at the wicket. The Silver Maple The uncouthness Of that primal age is gone, And the skin of dazzling smoothness Screens not now a heart of stone. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Less excusable for the uncouthness of his verse is Matthew Grove, who, writing, or at least publishing, his poems in 1587, should have learnt something, but apparently had not. A History of Elizabethan Literature Its crudeness, the uncouthness of its people; the emptiness, the monotony, began to oppress her. 'Firebrand' Trevison “And why did the shadow of suspicion not fall upon him as strongly as it did upon my father?” cried the girl, dropping, in her earnestness, her assumed uncouthness of speech. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City It is worth risking a little roughness in his speech, and uncouthness in his manner, if only he while away an afternoon. John the Baptist Of course, there was Chavis’ bold allusion to a “pretty woman,” but the very uncouthness of the men must be the explanation for that breach of etiquette. The Range Boss There was no thought now of his clothes and his uncouthness. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality To her he looked more goodly than ever this afternoon, contrasted with the uncouthness of Halleck and others of her class. Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University He had affected uncleanliness, uncouthness; but in spite of his efforts the glimmer of the “something good” of which he was the runt had shown through. The Man from the Bitter Roots "From Dreams of Thee" gets a delicious quaintness of accompaniment, while the "Hymn of Pan" shows a tremendous savagery and uncouthness, with strange and stubborn harmonies. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions But to the ladies, his brutality signifieth strength and power; and his uncouthness, originality and genius. Under the Rose The time has passed when uncouthness of dress and manner can be taken as a pledge of honesty and good faith. The Book of Business Etiquette It is a difficulty arising from their strangeness and uncouthness, not from their number and complexity. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society He ran after her to proclaim to her his love, and she, afraid of his wild uncouthness, fled before him. A Book of Myths Already my native uncouthness was a thing of the past, and the quaint mannerisms of my Scots tongue were yielding to the racy slang of the frontier. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance No attempt at elegance is found in this translation; the language is rugged, and on that account the better adapted to the uncouthness of the holy Word. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance The camp was new and rough to the degree of uncouthness, yet, upon the whole, the little population was well disposed and orderly. Second Book of Tales There was a wild uncouthness about the scenery which awed the girl. The Angel of Terror It may be a slight uncouthness at table, a peculiar back-country phrase or pronunciation, some gesture of timidity or swaggering. The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book Cynthia was charmed and amused at the uncouthness of the people and their dialect in some places, and positive good breeding in others. A Little Girl in Old Salem Aware of his uncouthness, he resolved not to shame her by claiming recognition. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's The himégimi laughed at sight of him; laughed still louder at his uncouthness. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 Lydia was touched by the sincerity, hurt a little by Glover's uncouthness, and could only warmly grip the little hand that was held out to her. The Angel of Terror The music has all the uncouthness of a direct and unquestioning response to such a vision. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers He was not quite so illiterate as his accent and his general air of uncouthness seemed to imply. The Stowaway Girl He was learning fast, and had lost much of his backwoods uncouthness. The She Boss A Western Story Brantôme in the sixteenth century, like Aeneas Silvius in the fifteenth, remarked the uncouthness of the northern kingdom. The Age of the Reformation He too came West in a prairie schooner and remembers all its wildness, its uncouthness, its railroadless state. Green Valley She clothed herself in the deepest of mourning, and made herself a thing of sorrow by the sacrificial uncouthness of her garments. Phineas Redux Shambling awkwardly forward, simulating all the uncouthness possible, I retained my wits sufficiently to note our surroundings—the long, narrow passage, scarcely exceeding a yard in width, with numerous doors opening on either side. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France Allison thanked Irving with the gratitude of one unaccustomed to receiving such consideration; indeed, his uncouthness and unkemptness made him one of those unfortunate boys who suffered now and then from persecution. The Jester of St. Timothy's He made a bow that was a queer mixture of uncouthness in keeping with his surroundings and a recollection of some more formal society. The Mormon Prophet On a first interview with them, especially, we receive an impression of clothes, good or otherwise, of beauty or plainness or ugliness of feature, and of correctness or uncouthness of manner. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics I can see now what a complacent fool and a cad I must have been—when I could look at these men and see nothing but uncouthness. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country Oswyn smiled with some irony; and Sylvester suppressed a little shudder, reflecting that the man's uncouthness almost transgressed the bounds of decency. A Comedy of Masks A Novel They were sons and daughters of the well-to-do, divorced from all uncouthness, with pretty manners and good clothes. Poor Man's Rock During his high school studies he was favored with good teachers, but hampered by his home-bred roughness and uncouthness and his poverty. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation MacNair answered with the same softness of tone that somehow dispelled all thought of his uncouthness. The Gun-Brand The men, who had all day been strung to a keen pitch of nervous energy, lounged in loose, picturesque uncouthness, while each began to unravel his own lively miscellany of information or invention. Judith of the Plains Rainham lost sight of his uncouthness in a sense of his extreme power. A Comedy of Masks A Novel And uncouthness is the last thing in the world you could be accused of. Success A Novel She had, in truth, discovered, underneath the crust of uncouthness and meagre articulation which was due to their Troglodytean existence, that her unwelcomed daughters had natures that were unselfish almost to sublimity. Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages Massive in figure, seamed with scrofulous scars and marks, seeing with but one eye, he had convulsive motions and twitches, and his slovenly dress added to the uncouthness and oddity of his appearance. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Jacky looked radiant in spite of the uncouthness of her riding attire. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest As he tramped about the sordid hamlet he forgot the rude uncouthness of men and place for a kind of ecstasy at the loveliness about him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 He had them in relays to his home to supper, skipping only those of too hopeless an uncouthness, and sent them home enchanted. Queed Lincoln never overcame a certain awkwardness, almost uncouthness of appearance, and he never acquired the finer arts of oratory for which his rival Douglas was so conspicuous. Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) "Oh, that is it!" she cried with a little laugh, but not, I think, at my uncouthness, though she looked me over curiously. Helmet of Navarre He had never been an eloquent man, but her playful derision of his uncouthness slew any little seeds of polite conversation that might, under happier conditions, have grown into brilliant blossom. The Golden Scarecrow As little was there, also, of the demagogue art of assuming an uncouthness or rusticity of manner and outward habit with the mistaken notion of thus securing particular 76 favor as 'one of the masses.' The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him By observing the refinements of the older nations, his uncouthness was softened: the rough barbarian cub was gradually mollified into the civil courtier. English Travellers of the Renaissance They marvelled that so versatile a genius could have lived in a land reputed for uncouthness and savagery. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 This waistcoat by its sprightly unsuitability to his aged uncouthness, somehow intensified the sinister quality of his appearance. The Price of Love Among them crudity in thought and uncouthness in habits were intertwined in odd, incongruous crossings with the remnants of the more respectable customs with which they had once been familiar. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I There was cause enough for fright without cowardice, and there is not, what I was led to fear, such uncouthness or ungainliness as should hinder me from having him with me.” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago He, when I had lighted my lamp, was staggered by the splendour and luxury of my life, I, as I looked at him, by the wildness and uncouthness of his appearance. The Secret City He instructed the Arabian to fashion him a charm that would overspread his ugly face with comeliness, change his uncouthness into geniality. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Yet the change was graceful for all the uncouthness attendant upon the size of so vast a movement. The Man Whom the Trees Loved With a width of sympathy rare in such bodies, they condoned the ruggedness of his style and the uncouthness of his versification in their admiration for the high quality of his meditative inspiration. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti It was bound to be crude, to be full of inconveniences and uncouthness. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Wheeling round, he saw a quaint figure—a huge nose like a pothook, high, massive shoulders, enormous, well-shaped hands, a general impression of uncouthness combined with vigour and geniality. The Aspirations of Jean Servien The brothers of Undine's friends all pronounced him "great," though he had fits of uncouthness that made the young women slower in admitting him to favour. The Custom of the Country To be brief, besides Hepzibah's disadvantages of person, there was an uncouthness pervading all her deeds; a clumsy something, that could but ill adapt itself for use, and not at all for ornament. House of the Seven Gables There were strangers in the room, and he was expostulated with for his uncouthness, but in vain. Ponkapog Papers And the clumsy figure of the man plodding at the head of the leading horse projected itself on the background of the Infinite with a heroic uncouthness. Amy Foster Thus I can tell myself, not without pride, that I have added a fresh stumbling-block for English readers, and to a page of print in my native tongue, have lent a new uncouthness. Underwoods His idea of indicating strength and manliness lay in displaying as much of brutality and uncouthness as possible. The Mucker It was a change for me not to be leader, but it was a luxury for once to fight in the wake of this Tob, despite his uncouthness of mien and plan. The Lost Continent She was only irritably conscious of the uncouthness of his large cadaverous face, and straggling fair hair; of his ragged ulster, his loosened tie, and all the other untidy details of his dress. Delia Blanchflower Stem ye the drift of herded men With your uncouthness So, tasting of your power, they press Back shrinking where upon their warm Safe ways of smoothness They feed their various lusts again. Miscellany of Poetry 1919 Much of his so-called obscurity, harshness, and uncouthness falls immediately into its proper place, is indeed necessary. Robert Browning: How to Know Him Nor is it without reason that some authors have attributed the conduct of the children who mocked Elieha to the uncouthness of his dress and to the want of a covering for his head. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time And simultaneously with my appreciation of the crisp persons about me comes the hitherto unacknowledged appreciation of my uncouthness. The Enormous Room The uncouthness of my garb, my wild and weatherworn appearance, my fusil and tomahawk, could not but startle them. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker The uncouthness which goes with bigness does not repel, it rather attracts. Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore He liked civil ways and smooth speech, and understood them far better than Master Shaw's brevity and uncouthness. Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories Whence these critics derived the notion of a new language appropriated to Caliban, I cannot find: they certainly mistook brutality of sentiment for uncouthness of words. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies That he was a foreigner is probable, both from the uncouthness of his style at the outset, and from the decided improvement in it that can be traced through succeeding books. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The railroad-banks were hedged with Spanish bayonet, and in places with cactus grown into trees, all knees and elbows, and of a diabolical uncouthness. Familiar Spanish Travels Even at that distance Septimius could see that the rustic stoop and uncouthness had somehow fallen away from Robert, and that he seemed developed. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life There was little rusticity to be noted anywhere, and the uncouthness which has already disappeared from the national face seemed to be passing from the national wardrobe. Suburban Sketches Then its clumsiness is lost in the collective uncouthness which becomes of a tremendous grandeur. London Films Gibson manifests less range, less dramatic feeling, than Masefield, but avoids Masefield's uncouthness and repellent dramatic episodes. Halleck's New English Literature There was a magnificent uncouthness about Tommy which would appeal irresistibly to a certain type of motherly woman. A Rogue by Compulsion There Cymon used to drudge like one of the slaves, whom, indeed, he resembled in the harshness of his voice and the uncouthness of his manners. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction In the man's absence, his harshness, almost uncouthness, seemed modified. The Cinema Murder Many of them are almost gnome-like in their uncouthness; they please me none the less for that. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 But simplicity does not necessarily imply plainness, nor homeliness, nor uncouthness. A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household A discerning person might have fancied his uncouthness as part and parcel of a certain rugged quality which could not be expressed in precise attire. Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures If they did not alienate the plain people by exclusiveness and pride, they would soon tone them up and refine away uncouthness and unconscious vulgarity in manners. From Jest to Earnest For there was a dignity and gentleness about the hermit that always made the boy feel the contrast with his own roughness and uncouthness, and reverence him as something from a holier world. The Herd Boy and His Hermit He speaks in rather a constrained way, and has a childish voice, his eyes very watery, and a certain pedantic uncouthness, and yet at times provokingly condescending. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 But for a certain moroseness, an uncouthness which he seemed to cultivate, he might even have been deemed good-looking. The Tempting of Tavernake She forgot Aunt Raby's sufferings for a moment in her uncouthness. A Sweet Girl Graduate He had now outgrown the uncouthness of his earlier days and had become stately and dignified in his manner. Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 Laughlin was a shrewd, canny American, originally, perhaps, of Scotch extraction, who had all the traditional American blemishes of uncouthness, tobacco-chewing, profanity, and other small vices. The Titan The Satyr, in the hands of Praxiteles, lost all his ancient uncouthness, and became a strong, graceful youth, with soft, full form. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable She had, in truth, discovered, underneath the crust of uncouthness and meagre articulation which was due to their Troglodytean existence, that her unwelcomed daughters had natures that were unselfish almost to sublimity. A Changed Man; and other tales A very timid, hesitating tap on the door was followed by the entrance of two men, both of whom, in general size, strength, and uncouthness, were ludicrously inconsistent with their diffident announcement. The Twins of Table Mountain The only difficulty lay in his uncouthness, and in presenting to the heiress of the Picos a man who had been formerly her own servant. The Argonauts of North Liberty True, Robert was uncouth, but his uncouthness was that of a half-fledged angel. Robert Falconer It struck her that this might be the effect of his long hair and general uncouthness, and this only spurred her to a fuller recognition of his other qualities. Tales of Trail and Town He would give utterance to them in improvisations wherein his genius triumphed over the uncouthness of his language, but he could never repeat what he had once said. Mauprat This poor fellow, debarred through uncouthness from expressing his affection for her, had at last found his fitting opportunity. Drift from Two Shores He had a way of slouching when he moved that singularly intensified the general uncouthness of his appearance. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) In uncouthness of form it outdoes those obsolete old brutes who used to roam about the semi-aqueous world, and live a most uncomfortable life with their great hungering stomachs and huge unsatisfied maws. North America — Volume 1 A certain savage uncouthness seemed to have fallen upon him during the last few minutes. The Vanished Messenger Wrinkled, bony and strong, he tried to dissimulate his uncouthness as a man of battle under a suave and indolent laziness. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse His ignorance and uncouthness, his low tastes and gross phrases, would, in our time, be considered as indicating a nature and a breeding thoroughly plebeian. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 How assiduously, and with what a civilized absence of uncouthness, of shame-facedness, and of slang of the mind, with what simplicity, alertness, and finish, does he step out at her invitation, and perform! Essays Happily she belonged to a generation which expected uncouthness in its men, and she merely felt convinced that this Mr. Denham was very, very clever. Night and Day She saw but what she chose to see, and she chose always to see the best, avoiding coarseness and uncouthness without effort, as a matter of instinct. The Game The way they looked at her made her uncomfortable, she knew not why; while there was an uncouthness and roughness about them that did not please her. The Game |
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