| 单词 | uninviting |
| 例句 | ‘And very cheerless and uninviting it looks! There is no water and no shelter. And no sign of Gandalf. But I don’t blame him for not waiting — if he ever came here.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was uninviting and creepy once you were past the ivy-tangle that marked the end of the Egyptian Walk and the black doors in the mock-Egyptian walls that led to people’s final resting places. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It looked grey and uninviting, great rollers sweeping in to the bay past the beacon on the headland. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Up until the early nineteenth century, Cherokee tribes occasionally hunted in the area, but found the terrain otherwise too rugged and uninviting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “This is an excellent arrangement, I think. It gets Mrs. Dudley well away from here before dark and enables us to have our dinners without her uninviting company.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a request stop on the side of the hill, just past a large pair of open iron gates, and it looked uninviting and dismal. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z April considered her uninviting bouquet with new appreciation. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z People slowly moved in, though the area long remained cold and uninviting, especially along the coastline. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The color was muddy and the lips rough and uninviting. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The dead hulks were somehow so uninviting that I decided to inspect them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was a very beautiful house but looked just as uninviting as the iron gate. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was singularly uninviting, like camping in a garage. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z If a round with the devil sounds uninviting, spend a morning chasing golf balls around the Furnace Creek Golf Course at Death Valley. Four seasons, four stunning national parks 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z “It felt so alien and uninviting,” he recalls of the area’s imposing architecture and implicit sense of wealth — “a different world” from the north London council estate where he and his family lived. The Artist Who Dreamed Up a Kaleidoscopic Basketball Court for London’s Canary Wharf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z But when a girl rips Lizzie’s poetry out of her notebook or sends a vicious email, uninviting her from a much anticipated group outing, I’m right back on that school bus. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z Q&A: The Well-Mannered Wedding Inviting all your Facebook friends, uninviting children and other wedding quandaries. The Royal Wedding 2011-04-25T18:28:01Z Furthermore, you upped the ante by “uninviting” your sister and her kids to a family event you were hosting, because now she gets to focus on your behavior, instead of her own. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mother and son worry about disclosing sexuality 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Instead, two punky sheds for vents, garbed in slanting gray screens, barely separate the street from the memorial and make the long west side an uninviting no-man’s land. Finding Space for the Living at a Memorial 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Upscale restaurants with extensive wine programs can often feel stuffy and uninviting and community events where folks outside of the industry are welcome are few and far between. Meet 2 social clubs cultivating joyful communities in the wine industry 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The only drawback was the taped music, Tchaikovsky rendered tinny, especially uninviting in the moments before the curtain rose. Review: Fall for Dance Opens With Miami Ballet and Che Malambo 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But now, she says, the space is barren and uninviting. House Calls: Basement an empty slate that needs room for exercising, entertaining But much of the local culture seems, at first blush, hardscrabble and uninviting. In Frank Lloyd Wright Country, Architecture and Apple Pie 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Although it was listed," says Bennetts, "the old theatre was strangely remote and uninviting. Royal Shakespeare Theatre: All's well ? 2010-11-23T18:43:00Z I think it's in the prevailing paradigm of concert programming – in its dry, miserly narratives, its identikit presentations, its uninviting spaces. London contemporary music festival: a new twist on a classical concept 2013-07-26T14:43:00Z The block is "uninviting", "treeless", shadowy; the buzzer is broken; the sounds of gunfire echo in the night; a "black doberman the size of a wolf" prowls nearby. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z The financial center remains coldly uninviting, even with the addition of the vibrant actors, costumed in warm hues of scarlet and gold. | 'The Rover': Courtesans on the Make and Actors on the Move 2011-03-11T22:53:56Z Even when accessible seating was available, he often found the environment uninviting. When the World Shut Down, They Saw It Open 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Now if only the new highways would include roads in all directions away from the uninviting Civic Theatre. San Diego Opera seizes the hour with prophetic 'Nixon in China' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The three-story set, with dozens of mostly shuttered doors, is blunt and uninviting. Review: A Singer’s Strong Return in a Drab ‘Don Giovanni’ 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Miss Manners is therefore unable to contemplate the details of uninviting an entire wedding party. Perspective | Miss Manners: On awkwardly waiting to join a conversation 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z “When people ask, ‘Why do you need a special women’s league?’ ” she adds, “I’m like, ‘This is why, because parts of this industry can be tone-deaf and uninviting.’ Women find sexism in male-dominated pinball — so they’ve started leagues of their own 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The restaurant’s location and its uninviting entrance, down a narrow flight of stairs and past the electrical boxes and meters, suggests a place trying to separate from the increasingly mainstream community near U Street. On a quest for doro wat, but the natives know best 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In the center is a circular platform that rises up to reveal a subterranean Venusberg, a carousel-like structure with prison bars that looks very uninviting. Opera Review: At Bayreuth, a Fight Between Love and Order in Radical 'Tannh?user' 2011-08-23T11:00:07Z Don’t be fooled by the scaffolding that wraps around the exterior of the Booth Theater, doing its dour best to look uninviting. Review: ‘For Colored Girls’ Returns, Leading With Joy 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The original fireplace was dark and uninviting―almost foreboding. 20 Best Before & Afters 2010-04-14T12:37:00Z Its home, the Terrace Theater, while in a lively part of town, is too large and acoustically uninviting. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z At our worst, city Alaskans often view the villages as bleak and uninviting places. Finding a Foothold for Nordic Skiing in Rural Alaska 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z The auditorium — especially the stage, with its curiously low ceiling and odd-looking, acoustics-aiding “bongo drums,” as Philharmonic officials call them — remains an uninviting place to attend a concert, nondescript at best. Geffen Hall’s Renovation Could Transform How We Hear It 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The latter is “closed off and uninviting. It’s unpleasant. If tackiness is about joyfully becoming, trashiness has already become, and there’s not one joyful thing about the thing it has become.” ‘Tacky’ Finds the Joy in Bad Taste 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z “It’s a big improvement over a previously uninviting public plaza at the heart of the city.” Biking Through History in Philadelphia 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The bands that piped audiences in have gone, the lights on the ground floor are dim, the bars and foyer – with the closed canteen, uninviting formica tables and banquettes – take on a dingy, municipal air. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z Ahedo’s cone-shaped adobe rooms appeared to have fared fairly well, but Otis blew out windows and the solar panels that had powered his business and turned his pool an uninviting green. Acapulco residents are fending for themselves in absence of aid 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Animals “are broadening their foraging range and going into more traditionally uninviting and unnatural areas to try to get food and keep alive,” he says. The Mystery of Australia’s Paralyzed Parrots 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z The region the Romans called Germania was an enormous stretch of heavily forested land, which was cold, wet, and uninviting from the Roman perspective. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z She says, "When you go to Lord's Court now, it just feels very cold, very bleak, very uninviting". Why was my neighbour's body not found for two years? 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z It has been almost three years of intermittent lockdowns, disrupted supply chains and rules that have made the country uninviting to international staff. China protests: Uncertainty reigns for foreign firms 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The benches can be uninviting, many with bars in the middle designed to keep homeless people from sleeping there. Heat waves are getting worse. When will L.A. get around to offering bus riders more shade? 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z “It’s the darkest, coldest and most uninviting of all the stations,” she wrote. Buffalo shooting victim pleaded for stronger gun control before death 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z One drawback to keep in mind, though, is that tile can “appear cold and uninviting,” according to Consumer Reports. Flooring picks for the high-traffic areas of your home 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Polling last year by The Oregonian/OregonLive found that that residents across the Portland area considered downtown unsafe and uninviting. Workers, visitors still aren’t coming back to downtown Portland 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z At first he found the region bleak and uninviting. Oil boom remakes N. Dakota county with fastest growth in US 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z The protests in the spring painted a new picture of downtown, one that was unsafe and uninviting to suburban Indianapolis. Adapt or fail: How 4 small businesses deal with the pandemic 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z The landmark was described as being in a "deplorable state" and "extremely uninviting" with a "sensitive regeneration long overdue". Circus theatre and sitcom pub 'endangered' 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z And in his communitarianism, Biden is answering Trump’s vocal but inept nationalism with an emphasis on retooling U.S. industry and rebuilding our common assets — typically described with that uninviting word “infrastructure.” Opinion | Biden’s pitch is an implicit but devastating punch at Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Juranka said her mother and mother-in-law helped by uninviting their friends. Pandemic causes changes in wedding plans 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z For businesses open at night, the garbage mounds are uninviting obstacles standing between the storefronts and their customers. Finally, a Plan for New York’s Sidewalk Trash Bag Mountains 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z “Hiring and retaining and paying lawyers and becoming involved in years of litigation? That alternative was so uninviting that it provided leverage for successful mediation.” One goal of United Methodists’ plan to split the church over same-sex marriage and clergy: Avoid lawsuits 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Once dark and uninviting, the path is now teeming with joggers. Los Angeles is trying to create the perfect streetlamp — and right inequities as well 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The concierge program got its impetus in 2005 when a mayoral committee described downtown parks as “underused and uninviting, with most unsafe and unclean.” For Seattle’s park concierges, ‘negative behavior,’ giving directions and staying safe all part of the job 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The exterior is painted in an uninviting “Portland Gray.” It’s austere and uncomfortable. That’s precisely the reason the ‘Portland Loo’ is finding a home in King County 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z NGA KHU YA, Myanmar — Rusting behind barbed wire, rows of trailers at a repatriation center sit empty and uninviting, evocative of a prison awaiting its inmates. Massacred at Home, in Misery Abroad, 730,000 Rohingya Are Mired in Hopelessness 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z “Despite … amazing large south-facing windows, it felt very claustrophobic and uninviting.” An allover update transforms a Queen Anne home into a light-filled composition of warm minimalism 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z While such rallies are organized every year on Feb. 11, this year’s seemed larger, despite the uninviting weather. For Iran, a Grand Occasion to Bash the U.S. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Your statement uninviting @benshapiro from speaking at your “Christian institution” mocks the very “Christian values” you claim to support. Grand Canyon University cancels Ben Shapiro, citing school’s mission of ‘unity’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Q: Our master bathroom is reasonably large, but it always seems cramped and uninviting. Get the best from your bathroom with these pro tips | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z But it’s possible the lander may encounter a particularly uninviting environment when it arrives, as the vehicle will be landing in the middle of Mars’ dust storm season. NASA’s InSight lander has just six and a half minutes to land on Mars in one piece 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The ocean behind her was gray-green, uninviting, confused, the wind blowing hard onshore. Ask a Scientist: How to Deal With a Climate-Change Skeptic 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z The yard was inaccessible from the house, and the house was uninviting from the curb. Before & After: A gloomy lawn becomes an enchanted garden that slashes the water bill - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z But the endless sharing and chaotic conflicts that ensue among these largely uninviting men prove more tedious than convincing, with flashback bits that are more redundant than enlightening. Dudes let it all hang out in overlong, poorly timed 'Welcome to the Men's Group' 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Lewinsky did not say what the event entailed, or who was hosting, but she did add that they offered her a magazine profile in exchange for uninviting her. Monica Lewinsky uninvited from event on ‘social change’ because Bill Clinton attending 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z And with the ease of taking a shower or bath, the need for a spiritual plunge in an uninviting setting was often disregarded. Mikvah building boomlet as Jewish ritual baths open 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Donald Trump has succeeded in reducing immigration by making the US seem like a hostile and uninviting place for foreigners. Stoking Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration Agenda 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z “The place looked kind of uninviting,” she recalled. Meet the Arlington teenager who is helping turn formerly homeless people into patrons of art 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Moggio said the campaign is aimed at teaching fans about the chant and how its use creates an uninviting environment for many. CONCACAF's Gold Cup campaign to silence fans' chanted slur gets off to a slow start 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The afternoon I went, a shroud of smog covered an already sunless sky, and the artificial grass on the Float’s soccer field seemed wan and uninviting. How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z But many found the building’s layout uninviting and illogical. ‘Where will they go?’ MLK Library, a refuge for the city’s homeless, closes for renovation. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z With few role models and scarce opportunities to swim, too many black children see swimming as an inaccessible and uninviting sport. Opinion | This stereotype is killing black children 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z He described the thrill of walking into the most uninviting, foreign-seeming, crowded restaurant he could find, pointing at a diner who appeared to have ordered something good, and saying, “Gimme that!” Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z By the late 1980s, the area surrounding the synagogue became empty and uninviting. Detroit Synagogue revamped and gets first rabbi in 16 years 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z For some players, hockey rinks can occasionally be uninviting. Two Black Women Embrace Their Chance to Be Hockey Role Models 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Department of the Interior headquarters, a mass of uninviting concrete, contains a series of circa-1930s murals by some of America’s finest painters, the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. A Traveler’s Guide to Washington, D.C.’s Top-Secret Spots 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z If this was a preview of what the next few weeks — or perhaps longer — will look like without Quick, it was an uninviting snapshot. Things go from bad to worse as Flyers spoil Kings' home opener, 4-2 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The facade, supposedly designed by the same architect who gave us the nearby, and strikingly similar, San Quentin prison, is still as uninviting as ever. The Kids Were All Right 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z But more recent missions have discovered compelling evidence that Mars was not always such an uninviting place. Visions of Life on Mars in Earth’s Depths 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Others are frustrated by the choice — a new apartment building on the one hand or uninviting concrete on the other. How an ugly expanse of concrete morphed into hallowed ground 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z When Trump smiles, it is merely smug and most uninviting. The godfather vs. the grandmother: How the 2016 election became a battle of “character” over substance 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z One issue facing Mancunians who do decide to react to planning proposals is the uninviting planning portal on which Manchester City Council hosts proposals and collects comments and objections. Manchester's second coming – but are developers destroying its industrial soul? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z “There’s no room to be uninviting because all of pop culture is subversive, now,” says Sarah King, the singer of Stuck Pigs. This is harDCore 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The old office buildings leave an uninviting walk for visitors from the mall to the Southwest Waterfront, where a $2 billion complex of condos, hotels and restaurants is under construction. The federal government tried to trade away some of its ugliest buildings in Washington. It didn’t work. 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z But while the malls are busy, downtown streets are often quiet and uninviting, with few street-level storefronts to attract pedestrians. Reviving Downtown White Plains With New Places to Live and Linger 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The occasion was immediately uninviting for a Newcastle side without a win away from home all season. Newcastle United leapfrog Bournemouth thanks to Ayoze Pérez 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z But as more and more people turn to the tracks as an alternative to overcrowded roadways and uninviting airports, the infrastructure is increasingly strained. Amtrak Commuters Struggle to Find Travel Alternatives 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Then there are the narrow side streets and uninviting storefronts where the real treats lie: feasts that reward the adventuresome and often cost less than an appetizer anywhere else. Chinese New Year Returns With Bargain Meals, Music and Parades 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Congested and pock-marked streets can be uninviting and even dangerous for children and adolescents looking for a place to play out their front doors. Remaking an obese city, 1 rebuilt bike at a time 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z It is an uninviting spot critical to satisfying one of New York’s City’s basic needs. Far, Far Below Ground, Directing Water to New York City Taps 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z He recalled the Macy’s of yore as an uninviting, crowded souk of a shop with dim lights, worn carpets and middling merchandise. For Macy’s, a Makeover on 34th Street 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z The bed seems cold and uninviting, a funeral bier with a mattress skirt. When the wife is away on business, the tidy homestead reverts to Planet Bachelor Q: What are ways to enhance an uninviting exterior? Architects share trends, tips to make your home a perfect fit 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z He took on some of the city’s more uninviting corridors: H Street Northeast, New York Avenue and Brookland, each project bigger than the last. He remade H Street and Logan Circle. Now D.C. developer takes on a country town. And the regulatory environment in Europe appears uninviting. Reading Lips: AT&T's Faded Interest In Europe 2014-03-21T16:45:00Z The only features that are somewhat uninviting are the security measures such as the sally ports and police security checkpoints.” Building Blocks: Folk Art Building Will Be Demolished, but Its Facade Will Live On 2014-02-12T17:10:57Z The docks may appear uninviting when the bikes are away. Bike-Sharing Docks Also Serve as Gyms or Trash Cans 2013-07-08T00:46:08Z Dotted with razor-sharp coral, its seas are uninviting. Will new Nauru asylum centre deliver Pacific Solution? 2013-06-20T23:43:23Z The Commission, however, warns of Croatia's widening budget deficit, soaring public debt and generally uninviting business environment, dented by lack of competition, poor legal protection for investors and a weak public administration. EU entry to shine harsh light on Croatia's finances 2013-06-03T15:00:53Z When the weather turned uninviting, they repaired to a large room in the belly of the church for some more swings. Roots in the Game Grow Strong in Georgia 2013-06-03T01:43:35Z On a grey, chilly May weekday, Shoebury Common Beach is deserted and rather uninviting. No Blue Flag but Southend 'flying' 2013-05-23T11:03:41Z While the postindustrial landscape, just a few miles from downtown Philadelphia, may be uninviting, it is sandwiched between the fashionable neighborhood of Northern Liberties and the tough but gentrifying Fishtown section. Philadelphia Renovating Apartments to Lure Teachers 2013-05-04T18:39:21Z The weeds, mud and boulders leave it looking uninviting, despite the official Department of Interior plaque at the graveyard entrance, he said. Feud Tourism in the Land of Hatfields and McCoys 2013-05-04T16:24:04Z Starting wide receiver Matt Aiken has been out since the preseason with a knee injury, but the junior appears on track to play Saturday in what could be uninviting conditions. For Navy football, revenge takes back seat to simple improvement vs. Air Force 2012-10-05T18:34:26Z The pages of these books present a most dreary and uninviting appearance. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Why did pleasure look so uninviting and duty wear such a noble mien? A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z The persons I would present are in that large category, the commonplace, and only as uninviting and as tiresome as we may any day meet in a second-class on the railroad. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z I have slept upon gold, and never before had I a couch so uninviting. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, and uninviting, and not a harbour on it? The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z It was five o'clock, and we could not afford to waste our time in words; so we ordered another carriage, and in a few minutes a most rickety, uninviting conveyance was brought to the door. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In number seven, the blinds had not been drawn, nor the lamps lit, though it was so dark, and the outside prospect so uninviting. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z The coasts of Northern Alaska are rugged and uninviting, and not remarkable for the grand scenery common in the southern division. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The aspect of all around was so uninviting that Davis named it “The Land of Desolation.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Following the narrow lane behind S. Pietro, we reach, on the left, S. Martino al Monte, the great church of the Carmelites, which, though of uninviting exterior, is of the highest interest. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Here is a noble twelfth-century campanile, nearly a hundred and eighty feet high, there a common row of little shops full of cheap and uninviting articles. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z Nearing the Continental divide the car pulls into Rawlins, which is about the highest, driest and most uninviting place on the line. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z Assuredly the prospect was a dull and uninviting one. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z As we walked back down the pier we glanced inquiringly at the cafés that lined the lower part of the way; they were all crowded with jovial seamen and uninviting. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Hardly any subject could be so indifferent or uninviting, that this teeming and fertile intellect did not surround it with a thousand graces of allusion, illustration, and fanciful expression. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z This area is an uninviting wasteland in which there are relatively few roads and little water. The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. 2012-03-19T02:00:23.340Z The river was swollen, sixty yards across and very uninviting. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z “As a permanent abode of civilized man,” it is written in a very learned if somewhat old-fashioned work, “Labrador is, on the whole, one of the most uninviting spots on the face of the earth.” Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z The queer part was the preponderance of empty seashells, for while their contents had doubtless become incorporated with the other ingredients, the empty shells remained insistent and uninviting. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The floor was grimy and uninviting, and the light bad. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z There was a tray of broken ship's biscuits, a tin containing some peculiarly rank substitute for butter, upon the table, with the other equally uninviting concomitants of a meagre meal. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z We were barely a minute driving up this uninviting approach and pulling up at the grim, closed door. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z Cordova's account of the climate is very uninviting. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z For this reason the ministry once became decidedly uninviting to young men. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z On all sides of her she saw the evidences of wealth and of the willingness to spend it; and yet the room and the house seemed to her strangely uninviting, and almost repellent. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z It is a plain, uninviting, eight-roomed structure, with a lower addition at the back, and with a square central chimney-stack rising like a tower above the gambrel roof. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z Proffering us two hard, uninviting chairs, Mrs. Cole vanished, and, through the half-closed door, we could hear her voice, evidently announcing our presence, but the violin and "Lannigan's Ball" went on to the end. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z He took out some of the dry uninviting scraps and laid them close to Lumley. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z It was growing shadowy, but it looked horribly comfortless, and the few dishes that were still scattered about the table bore the remnants of a singularly uninviting meal. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z There was the trail of the flock leading straight down the steepest and most uninviting of the glens. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z It looked like a particularly dirty and uninviting specimen of the breed. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The youth, who had three days before been Number 813, permitted himself to be led through an uninviting doorway around which stood several gaunt men in mud-spattered clothes. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z In this uninviting frontier structure the future President was destined to pass the greater part of his boyhood. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z Shares in the company have dropped nearly 80 percent from their 2007 peak, beset by flagging sales, increased competition and uninviting stores. DealBook: Lampert's Hit-or-Miss Portfolio 2011-12-27T16:58:05Z Somehow or other the church looked cold, and raw, and uninviting. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The town is compactly built of stone houses, with wooden balconies facing the main street, whence narrow lanes strike off into uninviting slums, and contains a fort and monastery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z And at table, though his stomach revolted against the greasy and uninviting fare, he knew that, as she served him standing, her eyes were fixed upon him. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z What he did discover was a rugged and uninviting coast, with stormy headlands, cold climate, and gloomy forests of pine reaching down to the sandy shores. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z A fusty uncleanly scent of bats and squirrels offended him; and the rough wooden cot with its coarse black blankets was uninviting even to a weary man who longed for repose. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z By the time Mr. Harper had climbed as far as No. 106, and had knocked timidly with a decrepit knocker upon an uninviting door, he was in a state of panic and dejection. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Altogether the prospect was extremely uninviting, and the succulent odour of roast duck was certainly no temptation to precipitate his departure. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The bed was so untidy and uninviting that she would not lie down on it, so she made them bring in an old armchair. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z As he pressed the button for the third time the door swung slowly inward, affording only a glimpse of a dark, uninviting hall. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z All was dark at the uninviting portals of the hotel favoured by the guard. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z And as soon as they discover the most uninviting nook, they hasten thither to talk a moment. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z They date, it is believed, from the days before the Zirite dynasty, but you will not be tempted to examine them attentively, for the purlieus are of the most uninviting description. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z We crossed the bridge and drove through part of the Trastevere, which certainly looked remarkably dark and uninviting on this lovely summer afternoon. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z Poor Ulrich, with so much sentiment, yet with such physical deficiencies; with such correct perception of the use of lips, yet having such uninviting ones of his own. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z The harbour viewed from within looked far more uninviting than it did from the offing. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Its situation, on the rugged northern slope of the Erzgebirge, is somewhat bleak and uninviting, but the town is generally well built and makes a prosperous impression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z They were probably as little able to attract capital as the village was uninviting to the industrialist. The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 2011-10-19T02:00:21.010Z Thus, of Mr Thomson we are informed, 'that he was "more fat than bard beseems," of a dull countenance, and a gross, unanimated, uninviting appearance.' Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z But the enemy whom the Gothic historian describes in these uninviting terms was too strong for the Teutons of the East. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z But the prospect seemed gloomy and uninviting to remain upon that bleak point all night, and, besides, we wished the assistance of the camp's crew in taking our teams over next day. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z He was wandering between the fringes of two rival armies and the prospect was uninviting. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z They sat down on a stone bench and gazed together at the uninviting prospect. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z From Colesberg we travelled through an uninviting country, usually a plain, studded, here and there with isolated hills, and having very little timber. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z But generally the low grounds are parched and rocky, presenting only a few thickets of Peruvian cactus and stunted shrubs, and a most uninviting shore. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z It looked dismal and uninviting enough, but at least there was no reason to suppose that any revolutionaries would be skulking there. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z The accommodations, if such a word can, with any propriety, be used in reference to such a house, were as uninviting as could be desired. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z Sylvia longed to question her, as she wanted to take as much news as possible to Jasper, but Read’s face was decidedly uninviting. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z It is a typical Dutch village, ill built, and in every way insignificant and uninviting. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z With the simple courtesy which was so much a part of him, the latter had thrust his guest into the only chair his uninviting quarters afforded. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z My turn came soon and I never saw a more uninviting looking drink, nevertheless I boldly followed the example set me and emptied the shell. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z The people, both masters and slaves, were poor, listless and inactive; their dwellings were comfortless and uninviting, and their lands miserably neglected and unproductive. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z She flung herself across the bare, uninviting bed, and lay there for some time sobbing heavily. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z Nobody unused to it would, in all probability, have cared to linger there, for there are few places of entertainment so wholly desolate and uninviting as the general room of the average prairie hotel. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z He lit the cheap oil lamp on his table, seated himself in the unstable old basket-chair beside his uninviting bed, and settled himself for a third perusal of his letter. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z When I first came on the campus the students' rooms were bare and uninviting. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z A massive brick wall surrounded the garden with an uninviting coping of ferocious spikes. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z The stained-glass windows were dull and uninviting by day, but when the lights shone through at night, how beautiful they were! Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study 2011-07-09T02:00:14.273Z It appeared uninviting enough, but when she spoke the words seemed to stick in her throat. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z He hurried away, and passed down the uninviting stairs at a run. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Gasoline spelled the doom of the horse and it must be said now that Dobbin's future never looked so uninviting. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Loveliness there was none, and as a resting place for man, no spot on earth could have been found more uninviting. The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west 2011-07-03T02:00:11.037Z She felt cheated; in perspective, even the stocking-counter seemed less uninviting.... Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z His retiring pension, amounting to some hundred rubles, allows him to lead a life, which to many persons would seem very uninviting, but which is not devoid of a certain charm. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z He had once been in the Crumville jail in winter and found 104 it very cold and uninviting, and he wanted no more of it. Dave Porter on Cave Island A Schoolboy's Mysterious Mission 2011-06-15T02:00:23.660Z But this rather uninviting patch of shoreline is actually the scene for something of a technological revolution. Qatar 'may become' new tech hub 2011-06-06T23:12:26Z An uninviting patch of shoreline in Qatar is actually the scene for something of a technological revolution. VIDEO: Tech hub Qatar 2011-06-06T23:12:22Z Some kinds are edible, but I have never been inclined to try them, being deterred by their coarse look and uninviting coat of slimy varnish. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Perhaps this was as well, as the first part of the way was sufficiently uninviting to have frightened her out of her intention had she looked about her. Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z She was young, yet she already went through life settling everything, and living in a moral tower of most uninviting aspect. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z The towels that hung beside the stationary basin looked stiff and uninviting. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Rereworth's guide pointed along this uninviting thoroughfare to a sign at no great distance, and told him that was the place for which he had inquired. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z “The Book of Mormon” made a point of uninviting us after I’d expressed interest in attending, given the crude language and explicit subject matter of the show about Mormon missionaries. Broadway: Take ?Em Early, Take ?Em Often 2011-05-06T04:10:02Z The great lesson to be learned by the geographer in these uninviting regions as they seem to most people relates to the way in which the rocks have been eroded. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The enclosure was as bare and uninviting as a military training camp. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z Yet uninviting as the fish looked, the boys all pronounced it good eating when, in the morning, they had it for breakfast. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z Releasing a domesticated animal into the wild isn’t ‘freeing’ it - it’s placing a mostly defenseless creature in an unfamiliar and uninviting habitat that it is simply not equipped to deal with. Bambi or Bessie: Are wild animals happier? 2011-04-12T13:15:00.960Z The room was evidently the proprietor’s office; but from what Billy Kane could see of it, it was bare and uninviting enough. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z The first sight of it was not prepossessing, it looked a barren uninviting coast line, but Job Seagrave told them, although it seemed inhospitable, there were plenty of grand places inland. The Second String 2011-04-08T02:00:07.383Z They went on into the main hall and saw a row of uninviting doors, each with some name scrawled on it in pencil. Peggy Parsons at Prep School 2011-04-01T02:00:43.170Z “I shall turn in this side street unless you mind your own business!” flared Eleanor, looking down the uninviting dark road. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z That's a big deal when you consider just how uninviting the world is in some ways. Dragon Age 2 ? review 2011-03-14T10:25:20Z The whole scene was so extremely uninviting that I regretted having come so far, and suggested to Bagsby the propriety of an immediate retreat. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z Jack looked glum as he replied, "I never saw a more uninviting spot and we seem to have the place pretty much to ourselves." The Second String 2011-04-08T02:00:07.383Z When they had finished their hot chocolate, too, she glanced out at the uninviting storm and sighed. Peggy Parsons at Prep School 2011-04-01T02:00:43.170Z Breakfast had been hurriedly prepared, and was waiting--a most uninviting repast--upon the dining-room table. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Nothing could be more unbeautiful or uninviting than the aspect of these stout garments, unless it were to the half-clad soldier in the trenches to whom they came like an embodied benediction. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z But for a new channel striving for viewers, repeats are particularly uninviting. Oprah?s New Channel Struggles to Pull in the Viewers 2011-02-28T02:27:28Z It seems to me more difficult to get anything of a medium kind in New York than elsewhere I have been—if it isn’t the best, it is very uninviting indeed. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z He turned a scared face towards the intruder, who jumped a little at the sight of him sitting before the grate, black, yawning and uninviting at that hour. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z The country around it is a dreary waste of sand, and a more uninviting spot can hardly be imagined. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Dry leaves covered the ground, and the reeds lining the shore were likewise withered and dry, while the lake itself looked black and uninviting in the dull light of that stormy day. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z It was uncompromisingly ugly and uninviting, for beyond the faint glimmer of the lanthorn only one or two narrow streaks of light filtrated through the chinks of the shutters. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z The Fallaray house was on the sunny side, where it stood gloomily with frowning windows and an uninviting door. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z I have never seen finer cattle than we saw in the Auvergne, and I have never seen more uninviting, dirtier villages. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Although this country may seem uninviting in many respects, yet to the sportsman it seems a veritable paradise. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z No doubt the pound-and-a-half of meat, when cut up into portions, looked very small, and was often so uninviting, that many of the men threw away their meat ration, such as it was. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z In a corner of the room, on a small table, a simple but not uninviting meal was spread upon a spotless tablecloth. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z Again he gaped his toothless mouth, and the whisker bent towards the uninviting opening. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z A rancid smell would be uninviting, for example, or a floral smell might point one’s thoughts in a purer direction. Her Tears Will Control Your Mind 2011-01-11T18:45:08.737Z And it will be in Pittsburgh, where January football is about as uninviting as it gets for an opposing team. Again, 2 games not enough for Steelers, Ravens 2011-01-10T23:10:31Z The desolate, wind-swept prairie looked uninviting but when we came to the Logan Valley, it was beautiful even in that weather. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z There are a small church, and two seedy, needy taverns,—mean-looking, uninviting places, each with its crowd of idle men, canvassing the state of public affairs. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z She was very dirty, and her wares looked as uninviting as herself. The Red Miriok 2011-01-04T03:01:16.847Z To the foreign student Bilderdijk is a singularly uninviting and unpleasing figure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Although the plumbing metaphor might sound uninviting, in fact the piece is a cheery paean to older age. Middle Age Moods: Not All Downhill From Here 2010-12-07T17:50:00Z All that was definitely known was that, between the hills, lay deep, uninviting valleys, walled and overhung with granite blocks. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z Avoiding the 7 Deadly Sins of Web Design Most welcome screens are actually quite uninviting. How to Make Freemium Work For You 2010-11-19T09:29:00Z Winfrey felt disrespected and ended up uninviting him from her show. Jonathan Franzen: American Author on TIME Pens 'Freedom' 2010-08-28T14:10:00Z He wanted to stay as distant, as private, as uninviting as is possible in the midst of a tournament devoured by a global audience of billions. Holland are dark horses on untried World Cup course 2010-06-06T09:00:00Z The exterior was most uninviting in a vicious shade of red paint with white trim. Remodeled Farmhouses It left him without a thrill, an uninviting, undesirable land. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath The Portuguese, those pioneers in exploration had only lightly touched this uninviting spot, and then were away chasing rumors of gold. A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland "No, no," she answered, now for the first time glancing around the dimly lighted room, with an involuntary sigh which betrayed to Edwin how poor and uninviting the famous "tun" appeared to her. The Children of the World In the afternoon light the view, usually so uninviting, was picturesque in the extreme. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance If Chinese cities are thus uninviting in their aspect, the traveller must not expect to find anything in the country village to gratify his æsthetic sense. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology The uninviting little kitchen seemed to him the center of a drab and dismal world, in which could never be aught of happiness for him or his. The Broken Gate A Novel One of its achievements which impresses both the trained and untrained observer is the undertaking which has the uninviting name of Drainage Canal. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 The steerage was not a wholly uninviting apartment. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands I myself thought the prospect of re-entering the Knollys mansion somewhat uninviting after the pleasant ride I had had and the glimpse which had been given me of a really cheery home and pleasant surroundings. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth Afterwards the stranger turned into the Euston Road, crossed to King's Cross Station, where he sent a telegram, and then went to one of the small uninviting private hotels in the neighbourhood. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England At five-thirty o'clock in the evening we arrive at the Hotel Niko, the weather cold and rainy, a poor table and damp, uninviting apartments. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 At last the trees were left behind, the great boulder bed stretched before them, an ocean of waste rock, formidable, repellant, uninviting. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter But the aspect of the country was bare and uninviting, except in the vicinity of the older communities on the Mississippi River. The Greater Republic A History of the United States She asked for water, and they brought her some, greasy, uninviting, in a clay bowl, but her thirst was intense. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Renshaw Fanning looks disgustedly at his uninviting meal, and plays with it rather than eats. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt The filth of the quarter makes it uninviting; the botanical garden is hardly worth the ride there. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 Bare cornfields and treeless wastes spread forth uninviting landscape, marked at intervals with the houses of the ambitious ranchmen, who, by preoccupation or purchase, obtained title to the soil. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter The other munched fiercely at the brown, uninviting bit of biscuit. In the Whirl of the Rising They were insipid and uninviting fare, and the bowl containing them was not over clean; still, they were something to eat, and poor Nidia was becoming very hungry. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising So we may briefly refer to an incident which, unknown to the former, had occurred on the evening of Renshaw’s return to his most uninviting home. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt The dull, uninteresting hotel furniture covered in red velvet—an uninviting red that repelled dreaminess and peace! The Heart of a Woman The houses were of white stone, and of some pretensions, but ragged and uninviting—paint nowhere, and the woodwork of the windows and verandahs mouldy and worm-eaten. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses I asked as I gave my father a small handful of the uninviting food. Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington Literature, it seems, is to be my trade, but the present aspects of it among us seem to me peculiarly perplexed and uninviting.' Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series The red ball of the sun was already half behind the treeless sky line, and away over the plain the brown and weather-beaten walls of Renshaw’s uninviting homestead had just come into view. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt At the convent his imagination had pictured home-life as a paradise embosomed in endless peace: all harsh and uninviting associations had disappeared from his memory. Black Forest Village Stories The Elephant's Child rested on the surface of the asteroid Oasis, a waterless, airless, cold and gray ball as uninviting as any solid body in the universe. The Giants From Outer Space Her clean sparkling eyes, clear tanned skin and graceful posture made those others seem dull and uninviting. Warrior of the Dawn The magic of the strange smells was gone and here, at close quarters, the smell was raw and uninviting. ax led me to a group of men and they talked for a few minutes. Pioneer On a low, stony kopje, a few hundred yards distant from this uninviting homestead, sits its owner. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt She tried hard to keep the room an attractive place to sit in, but it was in disorder, uninviting, most of the time. Fidelity A Novel It was an uncanny place—dark at all times, as well as damp, and so uninviting in its wildness, even as a short cut to a brighter place, that it was very seldom entered. Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls And the expedition was as uninviting as well could be. The Woodlands Orchids On the north the Columbia flowed past her doors, and the stream of immigration, first following the water and later the railroads, ignored the uninviting portals. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making Involuntarily medi�val Spanish palaces come to our mind: their gloomy appearance from the outside, and the gay patio or courtyard behind the heavy, uninviting panels of the doors. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain It meant "choring for his board" until spring's activities widened the vista and the prospect was uninviting to one of energetic temperament. The Song of the Wolf I was famished enough to get the stuff down, which wasn't easy; uninviting as it looked, it tasted still worse. The Old Die Rich As he stood in the shadow on the opposite side of the street, with his cap under his arm, Raymond felt half-minded not to enter the inn which hung out so uninviting a sign. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children It was of so little worth as to be frequently spoken of as "the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire," The Hohenzollerns attacked this uninviting problem with real German thrift and tenacity. The Economic Functions of Vice The distance was little more than seven leagues over a wild uninviting country. A Prince of Good Fellows The great skin, splashed and wet with its owner’s blood, the dismembered antlers, the slashed off nose—which such as Pierre considered a precious tid-bit, the naked carcass and the butcher’s own uninviting state. A Daughter of the Forest Presently, however, as Abner looked around the uninviting interior of his future abode, and then glanced at his young bride, he was sobered. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge An inner apartment loomed black and uninviting through an open doorway. The Silent Barrier It was a dreary, comfortless, uninviting place, and a greenish slime overspread the lower portions of the wall, and coated the uneven pavement. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part An uninviting flight of stairs was before them; and on the few doors within sight a simple card showed the name of the occupant. Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories The rugged, uninviting land which he knew so well rose vividly before him; and the high-sounding terms which were heaped upon it in no way lessened its ruggedness. Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier Before him yawned an open door, showing an uninviting vista of dingy hall. The Girl in the Mirror Is he acting over the dark deed which brought him into this uninviting sleeping-place? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 Glad of the privilege of resting, for a walk was a rest with him now, he set forward into the uninviting pass. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Once, on flying over the pottery town of Coalport—the most uninviting place I have ever visited—I found that the altered perspective made it look delightful. Cavalry of the Clouds Afterwards, the stranger turned into the Euston Road, crossed to King’s Cross Station, where he sent a telegram, and then went to one of the small uninviting private hotels in the neighbourhood. The Count's Chauffeur They went down to the little marsh, but though there was plenty of water, it all appeared thick and uninviting. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts “Well!” he said, but less pleasantly, because he was mortified by the awareness of himself as an uninviting 274sight, with his old dressing-gown, neglected beard, and the unpicturesque manifestations of a cold. Aurora the Magnificent And where the shores are not of this exceedingly level character, they are usually sterile, sandy, and broken, so as to offer rather an uninviting aspect to the stranger. Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants As well now as any time; but when he reached the barber's, the place looked so uninviting, with the smoky kerosene-lamps turned low. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart I watched him back into the town, and lingered near him in a café until nearly one o’clock, when he entered his quarters at an uninviting, unfashionable hotel, the “Falcon,” in the Via Vittorio. The Count's Chauffeur The air seemed purer after her stay in the uninviting place. The Peace of Roaring River After a mental appraisal of the dingy, uninviting environment she exclaimed: “Well, one nice thing about this is that we don’t have much to start with!” Carmen Ariza The room was chilly and uninviting, with a lofty ceiling and a hideous wallpaper. The Phantom Lover The former, as seen, from the railways, is a most uninviting pile of rude masonry, worn and broken by time and decay; but a nearer inspection reveals many phases of interest. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 It is one of those uninviting bulky folios of which the reigns of James and Charles I. furnish us with so many specimens. Notes and Queries, Number 217, December 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. You don’t suppose I could send this sick baby back to that uninviting house with only hired help in charge! Our Next-Door Neighbors There was much wrangling among the emigrants as to their quarters on the uninviting Edward and Ann. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba They found before them a desolate and uninviting prospect, a rock-bound coast fringed with islands and with the huge masses of grounded icebergs. Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas He was a short, stout, bald-headed individual, wearing large spectacles, and he looked up rather uninvitingly as they entered. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake And yet the shops are small and mean, the houses are dirty and uninviting, and dunghills front the cottages first seen by the visitor. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule It was a forlorn and uninviting spot, calculated to dishearten anybody with a heart less big and an enthusiasm less vital than Scipio’s. The Twins of Suffering Creek To the right, below the high sea-wall, the narrow beach stretched away, empty and uninviting. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue Apart from the fact that not one atom of vegetation would grow either upon the surface or slopes of Devil’s Hill, no snows in winter had ever been known to settle upon its uninviting bosom. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills After further delays, and declining a most uninviting dormitory, a boat was got ready; four warriors were in her, and we departed amid the cheers of the population and a promiscuous discharge of fire-arms. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 To this uninviting neighborhood came the coursing-party at the time appointed. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 Though the Falkland Islands are dreary and uninviting enough, they have added their quota to the gaiety of the world. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 I try to persuade myself that I need fresh air, but the autumnal day, the damp shiny street, has all the uninviting harshness of truth—I admit I do not. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences At last Vulp struck a fresh line of scent which, though particularly strong and uninviting, he took to be that of a weasel. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Gaba Tepe is so rugged and uninviting that it was believed that the Turks would not trouble to intrench it. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources But the entrance is uninviting to a casual acquaintance. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 It is often a large bulky plant and rather uninviting. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Members of the posse looked at each other, glanced to the south where the gray expanse of sage presented an uninviting vista, fidgeted a little and, one by one, swung down from their saddles. Louisiana Lou A Western Story The few remaining stalks were hard and uninviting, but there were some delicious parsnips among the root-crops. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain In this work we find great improvement in both taste and versification, and the rather uninviting subject is treated and embellished in a way that makes his fame rest in great part on the poem. 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 It had remained cold and uninviting, except as a place of shelter, and her soul had shrunk into a sort of knot—until Brent came. Sunlight Patch No grass; just a dry uninviting bush here and there, growing up out of loose barren sand, with, at long intervals, a clump of twisted mulga trees. In the Musgrave Ranges Full of sand, the box looked devoid of worth and uninviting, but Scarlett, quickly taking a piece of board, began to scoop out the sodden contents. The Tale of Timber Town Two or three forlorn-looking children were eating at a wretchedly uninviting table in the midst of these surroundings. Harper's Young People, April 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly With apparent ease, he chained the attention of the most thoughtless to the most abstruse and uninviting topics. The History of Dartmouth College The soil, which appears uninviting, is with water uncommonly fertile, being a mixture of loam, disintegrated granite, and decomposed shells, and especially adapted to flowers, rare tropical trees, fruits, and flowering shrubs of all countries. Our Italy The houses straggled about near the outlets of the coal-mines, and everything was as uninviting as it well could be. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Deep night had settled over the island, and the fir-woods looked very black and uninviting to Jeremy when he started up the hill once more. The Black Buccaneer But the time was to come when Ben himself, grown less fastidious, would be able to relish food quite as uninviting. Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves These books are found principally among the theological works, in folio volumes, with Latin texts or notes, and uninviting type. The History of Dartmouth College He felt that marriage with her would not be an uninviting conclusion to another year or two of his present delightful existence. Too Old for Dolls A Novel The woman’s voice was curter, and the uninviting muzzle of a bull-terrier was thrust out between the door and the woman’s skirts. Seven Miles to Arden The ball should be thrown down carelessly at different places, and should be played from the spot at which it settles, however uninviting that spot may be. The Complete Golfer The cooking was a decided success, with the exception of the coffee, which was very muddy and uninviting. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives The pedestrian, Mr. Bernard Brown himself, leaned over the gate for a moment, silently contemplating the uninviting scene with a grim smile. The New Tenant He had only intended to show one face, the uninviting, frigid one; and yet unconsciously she had won from him more than one glimpse of the other. The Rhodesian The scenery of the river is flat and uninviting, but eminently characteristic. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 Looking about, Esther wondered why physicians' reception-rooms were invariably so uninviting, so lacking in personality. Juggernaut After an uninviting breakfast of dry bread and water gruel, she was placed in a cab by one of the men who had accompanied them from the station on the previous night. Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young Every window reflected back the same blank uninviting gloom. The New Tenant Soon the brick walls of the academy rose grim and uninviting, and taking her place at the desk she applied herself to her books. Macaria The manner in which the women dress their hair is most wonderful, and materially helps to give them their uninviting appearance. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 The house she had selected was a typical old-fashioned French cottage, venerable in scaling plaster and fern-tufted tile roof, but cool and roomy within as uninviting without. Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales It was only a little vessel, without a cabin of any kind, and with hard uninviting wooden benches running along its stern end for the accommodation of passengers. Through Finland in Carts The atmosphere prevailing in the little chamber was uninviting. Anthony Lyveden It was a cold, gray morning, ordinarily uninviting weather, but after the house of confinement it was enjoyed to the fullest extent. The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet But his disposition was too strongly bent on scientific and physical pursuits, to admit of his remaining long in the comparatively obscure and uninviting paths of commerce. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. His manner to those he does not know is uninviting. Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work A noble gesture of the hand gave us leave to taste a meal prepared to welcome us, which looked most uninviting, but turned out to be beautifully cooked sago and cocoa-nut cream. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific It is also with the object of increasing their bodily powers that these epicures consume the uninviting sea-slug or bêche-de-mer, and dried sharks'-fins and cuttle fish. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo Across the front, which faced southwest, had been built a low apology for a veranda on which a couple of uninviting chairs stood. The Free Range At four o'clock, P.M. the storm clouds cleared away, and the bleak, uninviting face of Labrador was plainly visible. Doctor Jones' Picnic Taking my arm he crossed the road, hurried down a by-street, and, by what seemed a round-about route, led me into a most uninviting part of the city. My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France Rain poured down slanting with the wind, and the rocks, uncovered at low water, looked very uninviting to leeward. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" To his imagination it seemed that these dark, uninviting stairs were yet warm with the tread of the feet of Phillida Callender; it could not be more than two hours since she came down. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Accordingly the horsemen turned away from the trail they had been following and after fifteen minutes of tortuous riding, made camp on the 101 other side of a particularly uninviting wall of rock. The Free Range The surface of Greenland was cold, dreary, and uninviting to a degree. Doctor Jones' Picnic In the broad light of day it looked a most dull, uninviting place; more so even than its neighbours. The Stretton Street Affair It was by this process that they were all together in Marion's den, as Eurie called her stuffed and uninviting little room. The Chautauqua Girls At Home It was a typical frontier meal—stereotyped, uninviting. Children of the Desert They had left the uninviting rectory grounds and were revelling in their master's turnip patch when discovered by Mrs. Jukes. The Unknown Wrestler If more than fair or going returns are earned, then new capital flows into competition and the surplus again shrinks to an uninviting point. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated "I 'zink yours is nicer, little baby's mother," she said graciously, having first bitten a piece of her own rather uninviting bread. Hoodie There was a dull hurt in her heart, and the future stretched away, uninviting, heart-sickening, interminable. The Gold Girl As I swung round the stairs into the gallery I thought for a moment that it was empty, as it lay before me dark and uninviting. Marjorie Upstream the river speedily dwindled to a creek, and its headwaters were apparently fed out of a maze of low jungle land that looked feverish and uninviting. Gold Out of Celebes Very dark and dismal and uninviting did the rude steps, which led nobody knew where, appear. A World of Girls The Story of a School Yet, notwithstanding all the care of the ghostly fathers, the feet of some of these uninviting fair ones were cumbered with bars of iron, the penal consequence, as I was informed, of detected transgression. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 The fireplace and chimney, which was also inside the cabin, were made of clay and occupied the corner of the uninviting apartment. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland The country at this point was broken and rocky; there was much sand; the line of hills, of which the one on which her pony stood was a part, were barren and uninviting. The Range Boss The companions peered through the door at the uninviting interior. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters There are high and uninviting quaternary bluffs that lure only the eye. Blue Ridge Country The wish to keep clear of the uninviting throng caused the youth to ride on until the gathering gloom told him night was at hand. Deerfoot in The Mountains It is scarcely possible to conceive a situation more desolate and uninviting. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Another very famous piece, which comes in this volume, is, "Like a Blossoming Lilac My Love Is Fair," here written in the fearfully uninviting key of D-sharp minor. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations English ships had sailed along the coast to the north, finding much of it bleak and uninviting. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality He is unhappy and despondent, his viewpoint changes and the future looks uninviting and he loses his courage and his faith in himself. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Not much of the "Palace of Occupation" was seen; a large audience room was finely proportioned, but looked uninviting, as the rugs were rolled up and the furniture covered. Travels in the Far East Perhaps of all the thousands of islands that stud the bosom of the North Pacific, from the Paumotus to the Pelews, the Kingsmill and Gilbert Islands are the most uninviting and monotonous in appearance. Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 The brown bread by itself was very uninviting. The Three Midshipmen The table, laden with empty jars, with broken goblets, and remnants of fruits and cakes, looked uninviting and even weird in its aspect of departed cheer. "Unto Caesar" In the twilight the granite cliffs stand out black and uninviting, and the country looks cold and grey. Peeps at Many Lands: Norway The apartment was empty of human occupants, and otherwise presented a bare and uninviting aspect, the only furniture in it consisting of a table and two chairs. Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess We were wearied with the day's annoyances, and as the streets were very uninviting, we sat smoking segars in the coffee-room of the establishment. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Slowly the vessels coasted along the uninviting shore, looking in vain for any inlet or any river's mouth. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago They found the land uninhabited, devoid of wood, and uninviting. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Scotland had always been a desolate barren country in the eyes of the rest of the world, its history unknown, its people cold and uninviting. Historic Boyhoods My own little cabin is by no means dreary or uninviting. A Boy's Voyage Round the World What could the man want in that dark, uninviting hole? Chatterbox, 1906 It had occurred to him that bare feet would make any thought of flight through that cactus country extremely uninviting. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands So dull and uninviting is calm and practical religion, that religious persons are ever exposed to the temptation of looking out for excitements of one sort or other, to make it pleasurable to them. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) It was then nine o'clock, and the three hours till midnight loomed uninviting. No Man's Land The next moment the door was cautiously opened, and the burly figure of a man stood in the dark uninviting passage. Under the Rebel's Reign No one would dream of being out on such a day, and the prospect from the windows was too uninviting to fear many watchers. Chatterbox, 1906 Again the girl went without the uninviting lunch she had brought from her boarding-house, and again, as before, the fascinating novel divided her attention with her work. Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Even Nan must have been moved to wonder what Miss Blake had suffered that she was so glad to get into such an uninviting shelter as this. The Governess A table, large enough to accommodate a student’s lamp, several account books and a blotting-pad, completed this uninviting galaxy. The Flaw in the Sapphire George looked at this with thoughts of escape in his mind, but the prospect was dim and uninviting; even if the bars could be removed he doubted the possibility of forcing himself through the aperture. Under the Rebel's Reign Alvina sat down on her chair, looked at her box opposite her, looked round the uninviting room, and smiled to herself. The Lost Girl The vessel, as he could see, was moored parallel with the abrupt brick shore of a very narrow 108canal, with somber, uninviting houses close on either hand. Tom Slade on a Transport The bare severity of the room was uninviting. The Heart of Unaga "The room is gloomy and uninviting," I declared; "but beyond that, I do not know of any especial claim it has upon our interest." The Forsaken Inn A Novel The heat was already intense, and the barren, uninviting plain that lay before them seemed interminable. Under the Rebel's Reign The appearance of the land was not altogether uninviting. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold The boat touched ground—a rocky, uninviting shore. Attention Saint Patrick The extremes of climate, and our uninviting roads, discourage open air exercise, and comparatively few have much time to go out. The Education of American Girls About a month after leaving Juan Fernandez we reached the Galapagos, a group of volcanic islands lying under the equator, their black and rugged shores having a most uninviting appearance. The Two Whalers Adventures in the Pacific The ranch-house, built of substantial logs, was ample in its proportions and not uninviting, even to her Eastern eyes. Laramie Holds the Range The path chosen will not always be the most alluring one, but it will be the right one, and therefore the safe one, and there will be wonderful discoveries on the uninviting track. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year It sped past Corsica and Sardinia, and soon the arid, uninviting shores of Tunis were visible; then it passed between Sicily and Malta, steering directly toward the Island of Crete. Edmond Dantès When the lady took her seat by me I involuntarily drew my chair to a more respectful distance, there being something so particularly uninviting in her ladyship’s appearance. Diary in America, Series One If its exterior were uninviting, the scene as we entered was sinister. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska The first glimpse of the Kennebec, on approaching it from the sea, presents to the stranger a barren and uninviting picture. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 The country was barren and uninteresting, the cottages little better than hovels, and the whole scene uninviting. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 The school and church were the property of a society known by the uninviting title of the "Episcopal Society for the promotion of Christianity among the Jews." A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell The world is my oyster, for that matter, but the edible mollusc is hidden, and the shell is uninviting. Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) The dry and uninviting aspect which a serious study of architecture presents to some minds is such that it is too often avoided as both useless and wearisome. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship A young man, it is admitted, may find his home uninviting through causes for which he has not himself to blame. Life and Conduct The culs-de-sac, uninviting to eye and nose, were as Italian as the church. Riviera Towns Landless, left alone, worked steadily on, for he had no mind to lose his midday meal, uninviting as he knew it would prove to be. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Beyond, farther along the road, showed nothing but uninviting darkness, solitude and vacancy. The Sins of Séverac Bablon The barracks were typically army, grey, spartan, uninviting and ugly; my spirits sank.�� Coming of Age: 1939-1946 We certainly managed in this affair of the execution of Charles to get rid of that note of insularity which renders our politics uninviting to the stranger. Obiter Dicta Second Series Anxiously they awaited daylight, and when it came they gazed out on a barren waste,—a rocky and uninviting shore. The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands Tim affirmed that the one that looked the most dangerous and uninviting was surely the right one; but Howard was hardly prepared to admit this. Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys Casting one final look at the table, which was far from uninvitingly set, she slipped out and I was left to contemplate the dozen or so photographs that covered the walls. That Affair Next Door I proposed to have examined with some care the works of James I.; but that uninviting task has been now postponed till it is too late. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 No prospect could have been more cheerless and uninviting. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor It was the uninviting road to the land of sorrow. p. The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands The coast, as far as could be seen through the masses of spray, looked barren and uninviting. From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure There was a ridge of mountains in the central portion, but as we examined the place with the glass it looked as blank and uninviting as could be. Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas A glance at his cigar box with its two or three uninviting things for sale showed that the boy was really begging. Civics and Health After the bright sunny skies and blue waters of the South, how cold and bleak and uninviting looked our native land! Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor The prospect of Royston from its surroundings was, at the beginning of the century, singularly bleak and uninviting in winter time. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King The mews was uninviting enough by daylight, by night it was worse. The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant But at the end of another twenty yards the walls began to close in, and the place looked so uninviting that Mike stopped. Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days Guttural grunts and snarls came from that uninviting jungle, and we knew that the only way to force the lion out was to go in and drive it out. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country It is barren and uninviting as to its interior. New Ideals in Rural Schools Cricket was out of the question, and boating equally uninviting. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life I helped myself to a slice from the uninviting joint, and then artlessly pushed the dish along one place, opposite the first of the empty chairs, and proceeded to regale myself. Boycotted And Other Stories My master sprang to his feet, and with unaffected joy rushed forward to welcome his guest, before it had do much as occurred to him into what uninviting quarters he was receiving him. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch In the middle of the straits is the island of Perim, a sun-baked, bare and uninviting chunk of land that has great strategic value and little else. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country On the way to Devil's Hole, taking the south-shore road, Colin had an opportunity of noticing its amazing contrast to the north shore, which had seemed so desolate and uninviting as the steamer came in. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Long Stork Island was a barren rock about a mile long and half a mile wide, with a few scraggy patches of grass on its uninviting slope. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Upon arriving at the settlement, a very inhospitable reception was received from a mangy cur that growled and showed a very uninviting set of sharp, white teeth behind his snarling lips. An Epoch in History Let us hope so, for a more miserable, uncomfortable, and uninviting couple of rooms I never saw. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch The country through which we passed was a dense pine forest, sandy soil, and quite desolate, very uninviting to an invading army. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 The "beautiful Bermudas" seemed plain and uninviting as the steamer passed St. David's Head. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries You are forced to vegetate, rather than live, within the narrow confines of an uninviting and unhealthy quarter. Rabbi and Priest A Story The life of a monk, which was uninviting on the surface, was not more lovely when seen from within. Short Studies on Great Subjects A brisk drying with the borrowed towels, a return to their uninviting togs and they were ready to be off. Left End Edwards It made a ghastly mess at the cross-roads, which was a most uninviting spot to pass for days afterwards. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion The adjoining chamber, which was occupied by Bucholz, was scarcely more luxurious, except that some articles for toilet use were added to the scanty and uninviting stock. Bucholz and the Detectives "It's going to be some work to get down there," observed David, doubtfully eyeing the uninviting prospect before them. Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer Their mistakes arose, as it seemed to Spinoza, from inadequate knowledge; things which at one time looked desirable, disappointed expectation when obtained, and the wiser course concealed itself often under an uninviting exterior. Short Studies on Great Subjects Hotel rooms were cold and drab, the food was uninviting, and only occasionally did she find to her delight "a Christian cup of coffee." Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian It takes much to stifle the honest thirst of war, but this was more than human nature could support, and the uninviting bowl passed round the staff untouched until it reached the less fastidious signallers. On the Heels of De Wet The Prince took the uninviting loaf, broke and tasted of it, in accordance with the old Russian custom. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis He humanizes a strange country; he is a friend at court; he represents the legitimate kindliness of government, standing between the poor and the impersonal, uninviting majesty of the law. A Preface to Politics The effect is dreary and uninviting, even though the enclosure may be clean, and the milk-cans scoured to brilliancy. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country Here, too, the timbers were rotting; one after another, they had cracked and caved beneath the weight of the earth above, giving the tunnel an eerie aspect, uninviting, dangerous. The Cross-Cut Throughout that day an interminable outreach of level country had seemed to spread before them, dreary, uninviting, disheartening. Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Why, pray, has he given her such uninviting pictures of his companions there? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 When I have worked from morning till night, they give me unwholesome and uninviting food. The Arabian Nights Entertainments "Mr. Barnham," came coldly; the inherent distrust for the greasy, uninviting individual having swerved to the surface. The Cross-Cut In this position, his scales stand out in such a way as to make a complete row of sharp points, as uninviting as the wires on a barbed wire fence. The Human Side of Animals At the end of each monotonous, wearisome day he jogged stiffly to the uninviting stables, where he was roughly ushered into a dark, damp stall. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Islam arose at Mecca and Medina in barren and uninviting Arabia. With the British Army in The Holy Land At the end of this still another armored door led into a medium-sized room, as bald and uninviting as a dentist's waiting-room. Phantom Wires A Novel The older children were clamoring around the uninviting breakfast table, spread with cheap plates and with boiled potatoes and fried salt pork as the principal dish. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 The industries of the West of Scotland were then few and comparatively uninviting. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities To strangers his manners were somewhat uninviting, and in society he was liable to periods of taciturnity. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century It had the lonely look of a place long deserted, and the boy paused for but a single glance into its uninviting interior. Raftmates A Story of the Great River Then, after gazing in an idle and listless manner about the empty and uninviting hotel reading-room, he decided that it was time for him to go up to his room. Phantom Wires A Novel He was in her debt, and paid her with compliments; she is old and uninviting, and he owes her eight hundred francs. Bohemian Days Three American Tales Rent by dissentions from without and from within, it was in a lamentably disorganised state, and presented a decidedly uninviting sphere for the maiden efforts of a young and inexperienced minister. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities Mr. Allendyce did not in the least desire to dine alone with his client but the Wassumsic Inn was an uninviting place and New York was a three hours' ride away. Red-Robin The streets of Bristol are, in a modern point of view, narrow and uninviting, yet if the visitor have a liking for the picturesque he will find much to interest him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. A sloping roof, painted a dull red and pierced by a huge chimney, gave a warm and picturesque tone to the place, which otherwise might have appeared coldly severe and uninviting. The Substitute Prisoner Tom made no answer and they scrambled in silence up the uninviting hillside, till old Melotte's shack could be seen far below with the dim light in its windows. Tom Slade with the Boys Over There This was, however, so uninviting a place that the Confederates made this visit as brief as a nominal compliance with their orders permitted, and they did not often venture into the dark north end. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War It is a strange sight to see them selling their rations of uninviting bread in the market to buy something more stimulating. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond It took a step or two, in the most difficult, doubtful, and uninviting part of the road, but it left the vast paradise of internal evidences unexplored, and even unapproached. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story The squalid streets through which Stuart and Gaston Max made their way looked more than normally deserted and uninviting. The Golden Scorpion A Swiss town in its Sunday dress, was not like other trading-places, a mass of black stone houses, heavy, uninviting and stiff. The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. While this contest for the cold and uninviting country of Nova Scotia was carried on with equal acrimony and talents, a controversy arose for richer and more extensive regions in the south and west. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Unwilling to linger any longer in the uninviting and uninteresting spot, we ordered our hammocks, set out at noon, and, following the line over which we had travelled, reached Axim at 5 P.M. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative It was only shabby and uninviting; at least that was her impression when she arrived, toward evening, after a long, jolting drive in a hired motor-car. The Second Latchkey The island itself looked very uninviting, stony, barren, and inhospitable, and a route march only confirmed our opinions—the race ashore in the ship's boats, however, compensated us—and nearly drowned us. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 Do you know of half a dozen where boys prefer home and their sisters to the streets, or where girls do not court the most uninviting boy in preference to their own brothers? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Then with my burden on my back I turned to gaze awhile, First at the uninviting track, Then at the water's smile. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar He declared that dinner was not to be had, and that the only sustenance available en route consisted in the uninviting assortment of fruit, nuts, candy, and sweet tepid beverages contained in his basket. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Until her appearance he walked restlessly from the fireplace to the farthest window, stopping to look at the uninviting oleographs on the wall, inspecting the row of David Rosser's novels which filled the hanging shelf. Enter Bridget His manner was cold, dry, and formal, and sufficiently uninteresting, and uninviting. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 The little passage in the earth, so uninviting as a rule, seemed to us as desirable as the most sumptuous palace. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry In such uninviting atmospheres Ebenezer Elliott found his; and I am amazed that the world does not hold it in greater regard, if for nothing else than for its singularity. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country But as we were becoming reconciled to our captivity, we decided to make our uninviting stall as homely as we could. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben The bleak moors round it were uninviting enough that squally March day. Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth It was as uninviting a place to spend a night in as could well be imagined. Round About the Carpathians Into the uninviting little alley immediately opposite we plunged, and where the faint yellow luminance showed upon the muddy path before us, Fletcher paused a moment, whispering to me warningly. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor Still he managed to conceal his repugnance to all these uninviting things and he sipped his diluted Rhine wine, ate his sandwich—an unpalatable one—under the watchful eyes of his companion. Visionaries We were left standing in this uninviting quagmire for four solid hours. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben A country home without facilities for open fires is as uninviting as one without trees and flowers. If You're Going to Live in the Country Notwithstanding its dry and uninviting appearance, this grass is highly nutritious, and its fat-producing qualities are unexcelled. The Extermination of the American Bison In the morning I rose very early, and took a look from the window, but the prospect was very uninviting. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales Steps sounded inside the house; the cat stopped writhing, and as the door opened, darted in noiselessly with tail erect past the woman who held the door uninvitingly half open. None Other Gods I felt inclined to remonstrate with the officer-in-charge of the escort at the treatment I was receiving, but the uninviting armed sentry at the door frustrated my efforts very effectively. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben The library itself is on the first floor, and fills two rooms, running parallel with each other; both of them sufficiently dismal and uninviting. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three The uninviting entrance, up a stone staircase leading immediately from the street, was open till nightfall, the rest of the house being used for storage by second-hand dealers in Portland Street. Masques & Phases |
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