| 单词 | unmentionable |
| 例句 | “I read it somewhere. You write the thing out that you can’t deal with, the unmentionable, write what you want to do and then burn the pages. Slowly.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The German man's small, correct handwriting mentioned unmentionable things—bed conversations were recreated on the thin blue sheets of aerogramme letters. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Goodness only knows what unmentionable desires that man has. Please don’t tell me the whole truth. I would have a total breakdown.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the very center of the problem is the naked cold deadness of one’s own self, the only reality in nature of which we can have absolute certainty, and it is unmentionable, unthinkable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson concurred, though the subject touched the most explosive issue of all—namely, the unmentionable fact of slavery. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And in that day it was even more disturbing than it is now, because the subject was unmentionable and unmentioned. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Tacitly admitting that he remembered the unmentionable, Ralph nodded to Piggy. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Well, breakfast was sort of like that, only instead of the clothing problem, we had an unmentionable cancer problem. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not just that the idea has been forgotten; it is as though it had become unmentionable, an embarrassment. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Slavery was the unmentionable family secret, or the proverbial elephant in the middle of the room. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Around the little fires where communal stew bubbled there was all manner of talk and only the personal was unmentionable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The roaring furnace, sparks crackling in the air, the sizzle of hot metal into cold water—it all reminded me of that unmentionable place the preachers liked to go on about. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I am worried that we may be overdoing it, taxing its meaning, to conceal an unmentionable reality that we’ve somehow agreed not to talk about in public. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All the unmentionable subjects were now on the table because a measure of mutual trust had been recovered. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We’ve rejected that easy flow between dimensions: we want the dead unmentionable, we refuse to name them, we refuse to feed them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z An image like the terrorist fist bump, by Barry Blitt, which we published to such outcry, was talking about the unmentionables, the innuendos. Rising design star: Naz Sahin 2012-05-17T21:42:00Z Scholars were studied brain architecture and chemistry long before Mr. Weiner pinged photos of his unmentionables into cyberspace. Ambition + Desire = Trouble 2011-06-17T19:55:20Z “Slavery is in many ways the last great unmentionable in American discourse,” he said. What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Titled “Sheela-Na-Gig at Home,” after the Celtic fertility figure, it combines paper dolls and video with a brightly colored array of women’s unmentionables hanging from a clothesline. Art Review: Venerable, Small and Lots on Paper (Including Napkins) 2010-03-04T22:38:00Z Burnside is powerful at it, and yet the reader feels the whole time that they too might have missed the whispered real story, and that they are just eavesdroppers on an unmentionable tragedy elsewhere. Something Like Happy by John Burnside - review 2013-01-19T09:30:01Z The women are rivals, but as they play a piano trilling about lace and melodies — and everything else unmentionable — they form a rueful sisterhood that’s as emotionally persuasive as it is narratively dubious. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z “And are devoured daily by thought. And time. Holy and obscene; unmentionable.” Newly Published, From Quincy Troupe to Art Censorship 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Her continued focus on class, the great American unmentionable, made Ms. Tax a distinct voice. Meredith Tax, Feminist Author, Historian and Activist, Dies at 80 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Many people seem to delight in ewing and wretching at unmentionable afflictions through their fingers, with little regard for the vulnerable patients going through the excruciating ordeal. Is TV's obsession with embarrassing ailments unhealthy? 2012-07-17T11:05:22Z The flamboyant, sociopathic Missy Blonde emerges as the main suspect but proves her criminality by lopping off something unmentionable and waggling it in a hostage’s face. Which other Hollywood 'bro' movies need a Ghostbusters-style gender swap? 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z More than two decades on, he heads a five-member studio with offices at London’s Imperial Laundry, a Victorian complex where royal unmentionables were once washed. Rooms With a View 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z And sure enough, the unmentionable noun in this play’s title carries exactly the weight of bewilderment, anger and awe with which all the characters regard one another. | 'The ___________ With the Hat': A Love Not at a Loss for Words 2011-04-12T06:30:20Z Which would be merely irritating if these songs weren't so rocking and vocals so alluring as Kevin Magnum's, even as he's yelling about shoving his unmentionables "all up in your face." Fall album roundup: The Moondoggies, Truckasauras, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, THEESatisfaction, Blood Hot Beat 2010-09-26T00:23:00Z The great unmentionable evil at the centre of our culture is monotheism. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Her subsequent pregnancy is viewed by the local matrons as an “unmentionable indignity,” and they reject her out of fear of the social contagion that could blemish their reputations. A novel to cure your ‘Downton Abbey’ withdrawal: ‘The Summer Before the War’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z When Anne awakens a minute later, with no clue as to why Georges is suddenly so agitated, Riva superbly conveys her sudden, unmentionable thought: is my husband losing his mind? Cannes 2012: Amour ? review 2012-05-20T14:26:48Z And as Sarah grew from a baby to a toddler a new family joke turned into a persistent, unmentionable mystery: why didn't Sarah resemble Michael in any way? Stories We Tell – review 2012-08-29T16:12:17Z So a lot of the book is devoted to subjects generally unmentionable, like geriatrics. ‘Being Mortal,’ by Atul Gawande 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z With the passage of time, too, he had found a way to deal with the unmentionable face of conflict – the inevitable racism of the frontline where whites were fighting alongside black troops. Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z Yet because he is the center of a drama, and a memory play at that, he finds himself baring the unmentionables of his soul to an abyss of unseen listeners. Review: In ‘The Treasurer,’ a Son Remembers Mama, as She Forgets Everything 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Should this review begin with a warning that it deals with the conventionally unmentionable? ‘Funland’ at Museum of Sex Imitates a Carnival Visit 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z In 1960, in the interests of keeping wives dutiful and servants touching their forelocks, Lady Constance Chatterley's affair with a gamekeeper was unmentionable. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z But there is a joy in reading someone setting out the case for such unmentionables as a 21-hour working week and an economy that runs wholly on renewables. Cancel the Apocalypse by Andrew Simms – review 2013-02-28T11:00:01Z What do you wear over your honorable unmentionables? Style Invitational Week 1360: The lyin’ about winter — a fictoid contest 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z References to shooting off critters' "giblets" or "unmentionables" abound. 'Rango' sells its soul for live-action 2011-03-02T22:58:00Z At a time when Vietnam was largely an unmentionable word in mainstream entertainment, Mr. Rabe, an Army veteran who served 11 months there, dragged the war’s moral ambiguities onstage, kicking, screaming and spitting blood. Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman in David Rabe's 'Sticks and Bones' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Most of it is terrible, and a lot of it is unmentionably terrible. Bill James, True-Crime Obsessive, on the Genre’s Enduring Importance 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z But how about A Soldier’s Story, a powerful, muscular film from director Norman Jewison about that great unmentionable: segregation. The black Oscar wins that got away | Peter Bradshaw 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Her shop, LFrank, now has the room to display Frankfurt’s inaugural line of slips, dressing gowns, camisoles, and other ladies’ unmentionables. Three L.A. Style Mavens Move to Adjacent Shops in Venice Beach 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z And time is running out – that unmentionable fear. Frances Ha – review 2013-07-25T14:30:00Z Nobody yearns for a Vera Drake society where sex is unmentionable and the only popular song is the equivalent of a covered-up piano leg – but not everything needs spelling out. Is pop music sexualising our children? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z He opens up a marvellous opportunity for me to mention the unmentionable. Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh 2012-06-02T19:53:37Z Surely at some point, one of these teens should succumb to the sins of the flesh and be duly rewarded with a nasty slice to the unmentionables. You review: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010-05-10T12:03:00Z When, after the birth of a child, these elated states of being don’t come to pass, it could create feelings of unmentionable regret. ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The Lingerie Addict, a blog where for more than 14 years unmentionables were not only mentioned, but also the subject of thoughtful consideration, announced on Sunday that it was ending publication. The Lingerie Addict Says Goodbye 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z And while self-abasement is part of the comedian’s toolbox, there’s something depressing about watching as a chortling Michelle airs her unmentionable area while spraying herself with self-tanner. Review: The Boss Demotes Melissa McCarthy 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Lewis, she talks about God, politics and other unmentionables, and gently exhorts her readers, as she does herself, to find joy in a bleak and chaotic world: a leftie guru of optimism. Anne Lamott, Leftie Guru of Optimism 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Photograph: BBC This time it wasn't "the war" that was unmentionable. Fawlty decision? 2013-01-23T11:30:00Z Ephron’s frank and hilarious commentary on such unmentionables as the problem with feminine hygiene sprays, our cultural obsession with breasts and the shackles of ladylike behavior all struck a deep chord with me. “Don’t become invisible”: My Lubavitcher mother couldn’t utter the words, but let me discover Nora Ephron and Ms. and Judy Chicago 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z That relationship, once an unmentionable topic, is now on the agenda of the winning party. Thailand elections: Move Forward looks to make history 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Family friends recalled Irina McCarthy as her mother’s best friend and their own children’s favorite babysitter, who calmly read aloud the definitions of “various unmentionable words” as the kids giggled endlessly. Mourners remember toddler’s mother for humor, love of family 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z An essential place of unmentionables — in a lot of ways, its purpose is clear, unchanged. Luxury is not a walk-in shower with a toilet. It’s a vintage tile L.A. bathroom 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z In 2022, the real possibility of such a hell for the entire world has become unmentionable for the president and his enablers. Why won't Joe Biden tell us the truth about the danger of nuclear war? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z This example of caring, sensitive dialogue could soon be “unmentionable” in the hypocritically “Free State of Florida.” Opinion | Florida’s bill will only harm children 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z It’s like used unmentionables in the wash hung out to dry. Review: Forget about 'immersive' Van Gogh. Pipilotti Rist's MOCA show is the real thing 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Watch as an unfortunate Alex Hales gets hit in the "unmentionables" twice in two deliveries as Trent Rockets took on Oval Invincibles in The Hundred. 'He's hit him in the unmentionables again!' Hales takes painful blow - twice 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z Alzheimer’s disease was even more unmentionable, as if a disease that destroys the brain is somehow the fault of the person who gets it. Funding Alzheimer’s research is as critical as fighting the stigma 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, they are based in the reality of systemic racism — another topic now rendered unmentionable. Perspective | Federal agencies have diversity problems. Trump’s recent directive doesn’t help. 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z President Trump sends tweets from an unmentionable part of his body, British Prime Minister Johnson bumbles around and climate activist Greta Thunberg presents the weather, angrily proclaiming it to be “hot” everywhere. Trump and Johnson face rubber ridicule as UK's 'Spitting Image' returns 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z He still delights in saying things that seem unmentionable. Louis C.K.’s sexual misconduct tanked his career. Now he’s selling out theaters. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z In “OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose,” Campbell tracks how it helped turn overdose from an unmentionable affliction to an experience that is now seen as both common and preventable. Science historian examines how an anti-overdose medication helped revolutionize America’s view of drug addiction 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The challenge was: how to advertise and sell a product society considered unmentionable? How do you sell something taboo? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z In the past decade, pop stars laid bare the unmentionables of polite conversation, and you can thank Tove Lo for that. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z In 1984, Mary Field, a certified midwife and registered nurse in the U.K., recounted eating her placenta, an “unmentionable experience,” to ward off postpartum depression after the birth of her second child. Medicine or myth? The dubious benefits of placenta-eating 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z This is partly because it mentions September and New York, circulating fears, and the unmentionable odour of death, all in its first stanza. The right poem for the wrong time: WH Auden’s September 1, 1939 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Earlier in the month, a student from the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, next door, saw members moving boxes out of the basement; another neighbor reported seeing the emergence of “motorcycle stuff and other unmentionable paraphernalia.” Moving Day at the Hells Angels Clubhouse 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z There were too many experiences to catalogue so many years later, but they’d been there the whole time, ever present yet totally unmentionable. Anita, Christine, and me: The Kavanaugh hearings just won’t leave me alone 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z From being exceptional, now you have transgressed in some unmentionable way. Chanel shoes, but no salary: how one woman exposed the scandal of the French fashion industry 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z With the sudden shift in the political wind of 2016, the true nature of the grand bargain suddenly seemed unmentionable. Did left-wing Hillary hate put Trump in the White House? A toxic question with bad answers 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Of course, there is also the almost unmentionable possibility that the Russians did something which Nixon and his cronies never pulled off — actually tampering with the election results themselves. None dare call it collusion: Whatever word we use, Trump’s entanglement with Russians is a big... 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Yet population remains an unmentionable topic in international policy circles. Opinion | Talking about overpopulation is still taboo. That has to change. 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “In the past, sometimes we would sag, sit back,” Caps Coach Barry Trotz said, remembering tough times in recent unmentionable springs. Perspective | Could it be? The Capitals are finally getting the right kind of luck in the playoffs. 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z The steps I took to the lectern in a Michigan courtroom last month were the last moments I would spend in silence, while too many victims continue to live with their unmentionable truth. Opinion | Larry Nassar abused me. Inaction is no longer excusable. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z As swearing functions as a complex signal, subtle enough either to amuse or to offend, these words vary according to what a culture deems unmentionable. The power of profane language 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z He frequently used humor to make the unmentionable — sewage treatment — understandable and, well, less gross. After eight years at helm of D.C. Water, Hawkins steps down 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z And yet the country has nonetheless arrived at a moment when once unmentionable ideas have gone mainstream, and the most important political division is no longer between left and right but between globalist and nationalist. Analysis | The Daily 202: Trump keeps giving in-kind contributions to Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign-in-waiting 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “Everything was unmentionable but nothing was unimaginable…” Didion wrote. Charles Manson, cult leader and convicted murderer, dies aged 83 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Also, here’s what it looks like the second before you get hit in the unmentionables by a baseball: MLB Umpires are the Snowflakes of the Week - Golf Digest 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Since launching his bid for Virginia governor, the establishment Republican had treated the man in the White House like a Voldemortian unmentionable. Gillespie shifts from avoiding Trump to dropping the president’s name 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The president also used social media to raise another unmentionable subject - corruption in the Revolutionary Guards. Iran's Instagram election sees rivals fight battles on social media - BBC News 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z In retrospect, it’s clear Wolfe was simply unmentionable. Decades in an Asylum Wasn’t the Worst Fate 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Fortune had smiled on hockey’s most miserably cursed franchise for 58 minutes of Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal against the Pittsburgh Penguins, and now fortune was back to doing awful, unmentionable things. Perspective | The Caps were headed toward a familiar collapse. Somehow, they’re still alive. 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z And there's not a more painful fail than taking a driver to the unmentionables. Whatever you do, do NOT watch this painful trick-shot fail (Or do so at your own risk) - Golf Digest 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z He invoked Yale’s exemplary 1974 Woodward Report, which states that the university’s educational mission is inextricably bound up with “the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.” A Lawsuit Accuses Yale of Censoring Even Inoffensive Ideas 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z In the ultra-Orthodox school I attended in ninth grade, I was taught to use the bathroom quickly, lest my exposed unmentionables lead me to sinful acts of self-examination. The High Price of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Life 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z He writes a new educational workbook for the church’s leaders each year, referencing the “unmentionables of ministry, the things you don’t get in seminary.” EXCHANGE: Early awakening guides pastor’s ministry 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z I hadn't heard of this before - probably because the word was considered unmentionable. I had an abortion when money made the difference between life and death - BBC News 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The principle that scholars must be free “to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable” remains enshrined in the Yale faculty’s governing document and practice. Professors don’t deserve more rights than others 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In his early foray with China, Trump created some useful ambiguity and negotiating room by daring to raise the unmentionable topic of Taiwan in taking a congratulatory call from its president. Could Trump’s freewheeling foreign policy have its benefits? 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z My male envy grew after I contracted poison ivy on unmentionable parts when nature called during a hike in the woods. When Bathroom Runs Rule the Day (and Night) 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Perhaps it is this stubborn, enduring and thoroughly non-liberated attraction to marriage, family and home that is the true “unmentionable.” If you’re besotted by the Victorian world, beware the era’s reality 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z From then on this was a common experience and I realised abortion was an unmentionable but routine part of women's lives.. I had an abortion when money made the difference between life and death - BBC News 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z This "new" approach to liberal economic thought is not new but the old which was stashed into the unmentionables drawer forty years ago. A New Movement in Liberal Economics That Could Shape Hillary Clinton’s Agenda 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z She says the comments often ranged from scary to sexist, with men talking about “stick shifts” and other unmentionable words. Voters react to ‘nasty woman’ remark with disgust, mockery 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z She says the comments often ranged from scary to sexist, with men talking about "stick shifts" and other unmentionable words. Voters react to 'nasty woman' remark with disgust, mockery 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z And it would be unfortunate, Mr. Goff argues, if implicit bias becomes politically unmentionable right at the moment when science is trying to uncover the answer. We’re All a Little Biased, Even if We Don’t Know It 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert called climate “the debate’s great unmentionable.” Why you’re not likely to hear climate questions during the debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The Marylanders provided a distraction while the rest of the colonial army beat its retreat, a word almost as unmentionable in military parlance as defeat. The Battle of Brooklyn: A Loss That Helped Win the Revolution 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Gilbert doesn’t hesitate to dive into a deep yellow garbage bin full of soiled jerseys, sweatshirts, shorts, socks, towels and even some unmentionables. Rams odd jobs: It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z I am reminded of Oscar Wilde's description of the fox hunt: the unmentionable in pursuit of the inedible. Are Final Clubs Too Exclusive for Harvard? 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Even he seemed to understand that as he repeatedly tried to justify his actions while protesting that he didn’t intend to hit Adams in the unmentionables. Golden State dodged disaster when Draymond Green escaped a ban 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Cattelan added: "Hitler is everywhere, haunting the spectre of history; and yet he is unmentionable, irreproducible, wrapped in a blanket of silence. "I'm not trying to offend anyone. Kneeling Hitler sells for £11.9m in New York auction - BBC News 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The Taylors hated the stealth that encased the disease, how it was treated like an unmentionable cousin. Fraying at the Edges: Her Fight to Live With Alzheimer’s 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z But there are men's unmentionables, too, including 18th-century shirts, which were considered underwear because they were worn next to the skin —only the collars and cuffs could decently be shown. Think of it as Victoria's (and Albert's) secret 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The colossal unmentionable is that climate activism today exists to promote the Democratic agenda, whatever it may be this week. History of a Climate Con 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z It concluded that intellectual growth requires “the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable”. Hard to say 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In conferences, debates and panel discussions about schools, I await mention of the unmentionable issue: grading. Letting students sink doesn’t teach them to swim 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z What other unmentionable solutions will we let ourselves propose? Trumpism After Trump 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z “My concern would be for any pregnant woman being around her because if she is desperate, she may do the unmentionable and harm the mother and take the baby,” she wrote. Fetal abduction: brutal attacks against expectant mothers on the rise in US 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The last thing I want everyone to remember is a holiday filled with stomachaches and other unmentionable tummy troubles. 8 Food Safety Tips to Remember This Thanksgiving 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Our continuing pieties about sex are reflected in the way some modern field guides describe the distinctive odor of mushrooms like Inocybes as ‘‘unmentionable’’ or ‘‘disgusting’’ rather than the more accurate ‘‘spermatic.’’ Sex, Death and Mushrooms 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Today Mr Macron is not even trying to formulate policy, just to say the unmentionable in order to nudge the debate forward before technology gets there first. Leaders in driverless cars 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But at Iris Lingerie in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, customers rarely paw through the racks of unmentionables. At a Brooklyn Shop, the Bra Whisperer Is In 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Wireless Armour is a new line of underwear for men, developed by British scientist Joseph Perkins, that supposedly protects your unmentionables from 99.9% of electromagnetic radiation. This Underwear Can Protect From Radiation Exposure 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Yale’s statement on “freedom of expression” captures this search well when it says students must be able to “think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.” Proud To Be An American? Do Not Say So At The University Of New Hampshire 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The movie’s best bits, however, are not its forays into the unmentionable and the unprintable. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Ted 2’ 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z First, your delicate unmentionables are more likely to burn than the rest of you. Nude beaches in America: a guide for career nudists and amateurs 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Did I just compare God to a kangaroo’s unmentionables? Is God a woman? To ask the question is to miss the point | Kate Bottley 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Besides the social stigma, in East Germany it was sacrilegious to criticise Soviet heroes who had defeated fascism while across the Wall in the West, the guilt for Nazi crimes made German suffering unmentionable. The rape of Berlin - BBC News 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Their March 6 front-page article, “Four-letter word again blankets the region,” allowed me to survive yet another day of “unmentionable frozen precipitation.” Dissecting The Post’s s--w coverage 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Scrape away some of the unmentionable frozen precipitation, and you could find some of those longed-for early blooms. Beneath all that snow is spring, if you know where to look for it 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z After a productive career at P&G and additional time in consulting, Brezoczky founded a company called Butterfly Health that deals with a true unmentionable, what the company calls “accidental bowel leakage,” or ABL. High Value But Little Glory: Innovating The Unmentionable 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Moments after Evelyn arrives at the door of Cynthia’s sumptuously appointed mansion, she’s being ordered to scrub the floors, polish her mistress’s boots and launder a pile of lacy unmentionables. ‘The Duke of Burgundy’ movie review: A stylish, provocative erotic fantasy 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Contrary to last year’s game, which shall forever be an unmentionable horror in Denver Broncos circles, this year’s matchup should be close until deep into the fourth quarter. A Gamble on the Super Bowl 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Then in the 1500s, Duke Charles III, who as leader of the royal army bears the title Constable of France, does the unmentionable and defects to the king's arch-enemy, the Holy Roman Emperor. The link between bourbon biscuits and bourbon whiskey 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Certain unmentionables were blathering about a "permanent Republican majority." Historical Lessons for a President Forced to Deal With a Hostile Congress 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Load times between missions are almost unmentionable, and each level takes at most a minute or two to zip through. 8 Things Bungie's Destiny Does Very Well 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z "Then," said the Gloucester Citizen, "in a manner unmentionable to ears polite, these Amazonian women administered the punishment so familiar to English boys, and in no respect less severe or mortifying in its character." The Victorian women vigilantes 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The elephant in the room is mass migration, unmentionable to the elites, who do not suffer the worst of its effects in any case. Europe Against The European 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z If you thought that the biggest risk of Airbnb-ing your apartment was getting caught by your landlord or having a stranger go through your unmentionables, please take note. Man Comes Home to ‘XXX Freak Fest’ Orgy After Renting His NYC Apartment on Airbnb 2014-03-17T16:08:23Z The children who squidged around in the cream of wheat, tasted it, smeared it, did various unmentionable things with it — they were the children who understood what cream of wheat was. Well: To Smoosh Peas Is to Learn 2013-12-23T19:05:11Z They agree substantially on some of the causes: excessive savings ; low effective demand ; increasing inequality but neither seems able to go one step further and suggest the unmentionable. Inequality: A defining issue, for poor people 2013-12-16T18:23:07Z A debate on a holiday tradition exposes racial attitudes Fawlty Europe Will the European Commission dare to utter the unmentionable to the Germans? Lexington: Bye-bye, Bloomberg 2013-10-31T15:59:22Z Spend an extra 10 grand on the Sexus-Lexus upgrade, and they will discretely perform unmentionable acts on you as well… Possibly. On the road: Lexus LS 600h L Premier 2013-07-13T08:00:28Z "Slavery is still the last great unmentionable in American life," he says. Should African Americans have own museum? 2013-06-23T00:49:59Z “Slavery is the last great unmentionable in public discourse,” he said. Slave Cabin to Get Museum Home in Washington 2013-05-18T15:26:03Z For months, top officials in the regime have squabbled bitterly over who might ultimately succeed Bouteflika—a subject that until recently seemed almost unmentionable. Abdelaziz Bouteflika: Is Algeria's Strongman on His Way Out? 2013-04-30T06:35:27Z “The Pope was no stranger to the intrigues, but he probably did not know that under his pontificate there was such a complex network and such intricate chains of personal interests and unmentionable relationships.” Did A Cross-Dressing Priest Sex Ring Bring Down Benedict XVI? 2013-02-22T17:43:00Z And anything lower than a sneaky kick to the unmentionables? Indoor kite flying, classic Carragher clips and when rowing goes wrong 2013-02-14T09:00:00Z He is giving them a place at the table where, before Obama, they were the unmentionables. Obama: Let those with the most power be the most humble 2013-02-08T18:15:26Z Far more important are the effects of the World War II, which are less talked about, partly because German suffering became unmentionable because of guilt. The 'frugal' German dinner party 2012-11-18T01:12:46Z In this way have we gone through four "debates" and nearly a full election cycle with climate change unmentioned and unmentionable. Words are the greatest weapon for political activists 2012-10-29T13:30:01Z Yet climate change continues to be the great unmentionable on Capitol Hill and the presidential campaign trail. When Climate Change Kills 2012-09-27T08:45:00Z In 2006, his World Cup campaign was impaired by a metatarsal injury and finished with a reprehensible stamp on Ricardo Carvalho’s unmentionables as England was eliminated by Portugal in the quarterfinals. Goal: Which Wayne Rooney Will Return for England? 2012-06-19T04:30:27Z The men stripped to the waist, wearing only “duck” unmentionables, prepared, immediately after breakfast, for the saturnalia of the day—a day when the ship was en carnival, and discipline relaxed. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z He had seen death and pestilence, human nature stripped naked, and unmentionable cruelty; and the priest was quite aware that one cannot live with the outcast, in Africa, and remain unchanged. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z But Vargas, a retail sales clerk, managed to find a table brimming with pink-and-white unmentionables. Counterfeit Gap joins the counterfeit Gucci 2012-02-04T01:52:00Z Men and women array themselves in all manner of fantastic garbs, address one another in the most indecent phrases, and practise unmentionable abominations openly in the public square of the town. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z I bet you one million pounds," said Mr. Mablethorpe with great precision, "that the condemned printing-firm employed by my unmentionable publishers has taken into its adjectival employment an asterisked staff of obelised female compositors. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Some of the species they found are new arrivals, having traveled to the bathroom for the first time on someone’s hand, belly or unmentionable part. Public bathrooms house thousands of kinds of bacteria 2011-11-23T23:45:05.203Z He has ridiculed what he is fond of calling "romantic rot," and his own novels have been a silent but emphatic protest against "mentioning the unmentionable." Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z I wonder if he affects other people in the same way--the unmentionable animal! A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z It was not possible to avoid detaching stones, which, as they fell, cause words unmentionable to rise. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z Some ten years afterwards, Bill, a brother of Bob, and several years younger, convicted of an unmentionable crime, received a ten years’ chain-gang sentence. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z My "unmentionables," which reached down to my feet when I left Hakodate at the beginning of my journey, had long since been trimmed and reduced to a kind of knickerbockers. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z In the corner-seat of the next pew, right before Burns, and not more than two feet off, sat the young lady on whom the poet saw that unmentionable parasite, which he has immortalized in song. Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook 2011-10-06T02:00:33.843Z There was a murmur of concern; C.I.A drones, though common knowledge, are unmentionable by government officials in public. News Analysis: Awlaki Killing Is Awash in Open Secrets 2011-10-05T02:20:57Z This early effort to create a Nordic cuisine was met with ridicule by locals who went so far as to tag him with a nickname that involves doing unmentionable things to seals. Can the World's Best Chef Teach Danes the Joy of Hay? 2011-09-01T08:00:00Z He described the risks as “unmentionable and unimaginable.” Osborne May Defend Fiscal Squeeze as Economic Outlook Darkens 2011-08-11T03:52:01Z King warned that the Bank's number-crunchers hadn't included in their forecasts what he called, "the unimaginable and the unmentionable" – impossible-to-quantify risks such as a full-blown sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone. King warns of harsh winds ahead as Bank cuts growth forecast 2011-08-10T18:00:48Z I am sorry to see a little sly, stealthy, unmentionable coldness arising between Lamar and Arthur. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z By discussing money Mrs Bourne is mentioning the very British unmentionable. Is the manners e-mail correct? 2011-06-30T14:35:45Z He had consented, not without extreme reluctance, to clothe his nether limbs in the unmentionable garment of recent introduction; but he resolutely adhered to the pigtail. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z Here’s the opening thought: The “C-word,” climate, appears to have become to the Beltway what the “P-word,” population, has been in climate treaty negotiations for a long time — unmentionable. Dot Earth: Gore Slams 'Merchants of Poison,' Prods Obama on Climate 2011-06-22T16:12:09Z It did not think of its children as unmentionable until they had been baptised into decency by birth. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Unfortunately, we are not allowed to include most of them here, because of their references to unmentionable anatomical parts. City Room: Imagining the Sound of a Taxi Horn Not Honking 2011-05-11T15:20:06Z She began to perceive they were considered of that obscure and unmentionable world of sin, with which men alone had proper right to deal. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z She flipped through the unmentionably medical section, through the lingerie section, and finally pounced with triumph on a page that displayed brassieres. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z My feelings as I paddled back in the slush in the direction of my studio were unmentionable, especially as I discovered I had only a half-crown in my pocket. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z If Mr. Thain's antecedents were unmentionable, I should adore him just the same, but, as I know your father would remind me in some very delicate fashion if he were here, the situation is different. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z At Dyersburg a red-hot poker was rammed down the throat of the victim, and he was further mutilated in ways indecent and unmentionable. Your Negro Neighbor 2011-02-14T03:00:35.203Z They almost held their breath for days after that unmentionable night. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z You can imagine, therefore, that fifty of them in one room, added to the smell of their tobacco, which is detestable, and the smoking and all its unmentionable consequences, drove me from the spot. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z For the first time in his life the Dean has become unmentionable. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z The “C-word,” climate, appears to have become to the Beltway what the “P-word,” population, has been in climate treaty negotiations for a long time — unmentionable. Dot Earth: The 'C-Word' Vanishes 2011-01-26T15:55:23Z For her pride would not be so scornful, as her wedded memories reject with horror, the unmentionable imputation involved in the mere fact of Isabel's existence. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z That you suspected your husband and me of all sorts of unmentionable things, and that you wouldn't be satisfied until you'd had it out with me. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z Third, the retailing channels of that day weren't congenial to the marketing of a new and unmentionable product. How they sell you what you don't understand 2010-11-14T01:43:00Z "Booze, bashes and other unmentionables now characterize how both young and old celebrate this day", it said an editorial on the eve of the holiday. Memorials, World Cup: mixed emotions in S.Africa 2010-06-16T17:05:00Z On lesser days, unmentionable objects block the huge grates in the sewer channels. Stagnant Pay Upsets New York Sewage Workers 2010-03-17T14:46:00Z The name Courage is, for amusing but quite unmentionable reasons, given to her in consequence of this episode. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim When it was first reported that the bodies of our marines killed at Guantanamo were subjected to unmentionable mutilations by the Spaniards, we could not believe it. Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future The gooseberry season is over, but if this were the height of it, the prodigious fruit of that family would be unmentionable to any scientific assembly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887 Numerous 'Unredeemed Goods for Sale,' in the shape of coats, vests, and other unmentionable garments, are suspended on wooden stands in front of the doorways. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them The ambition of the naturalist, briefly described without epigram or flippancy, but as he would himself say scientifically, is to mention the unmentionable with as much fulness of detail as possible. A Short History of French Literature It was whispered that the King’s sleeping visions had so shaped that vast and unmentionable wizardry had been at work. The White Shield Two of them were unmentionable and the third was forgetting to massage all of the eight eyeballs of Hiah-Leugh at one and the same time. Death of a B.E.M. Each looked as though the other were something unmentionable, left over from the last cleaning of the cesspool. Feet Of Clay Returned to the Huron mission, where, in 1649, he was captured by the Iroquois, and burned at the stake with unmentionable cruelties. The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History People assume that Urnings seek their pleasure only or mainly in an act of unmentionable indecency. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists Here’s a blasphemous fuss about an unmentionable little ant! The Woodlands Orchids But what in the name of all that was unmentionable was she doing in the Gloating Chamber? Death of a B.E.M. Is there not also a legalized system of social debasement in Japan, so utterly vile in our estimation as to be absolutely unmentionable in detail? The Pearl of India Another of the party, 94 who has completed the upper part of his toilet, is so hampered with the voluminous folds and stiffening of his cravat that he cannot wriggle into his unmentionables. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. From the unmentionable act they were deterred by �sthetical repulsion and fear of the law. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists Some of Rembrandt's etched plates are unmentionable, and Goya even went to further lengths. Ivory Apes and Peacocks And your education was rhetorical, and your philosophy absurd, and your vices—oh, unmentionable! A Modern Symposium Polly called her a once unmentionable name that was coming into fashionable use after a long exile. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards It used to distress me at first to see my most intimate garments hanging in such close proximity to the well-worn unmentionables of the redoubtable Mr. Palling, but I have got over that. East of the Shadows Religion adopted this view, and, through the legend of Sodom and Gomorrah, taught that God was ready to punish whole nations with violent destruction if they practised the "unmentionable vice." A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists With all his genius in naming certain unmentionable matters, I don't believe in the virility of these pieces, scintillating with sexual images. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It was as though he expected some cruel, crippling blow to follow; as though it were the last straw on the back of unmentionable former agonies. Slaves of Mercury "Why the unmentionable mischief do you waste your energies, singing like that at a rehearsal?" he demanded abruptly of Thayer, as he joined him on the stairs. The Dominant Strain The whole procession terminates in a military band, composed of musicians whose hard work and little pay are exhibited in their uniforms, which are limited to buttonless shirts and brief unmentionables. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba The streets are so narrow that with outstretched arms you can almost reach from side to side, and the unmentionable foulness of them often smells to heaven. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions She was ten or eleven, I think, just a scrap of a creature, playing with a doll, and yet degraded unmentionably in mind. . . . Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India "You!" laughed Schumann; "You quarrel, you dear old scraper of unmentionable strings!" A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy "Where the unmentionable mischief did you come from?" The Dominant Strain There was an unmentionable reserve between the two women. The Rainbow We had some grand old tumbles, in the loose snow, and some unmentionable bruises, before we became sufficiently expert to tool our sleigh-runners along their proper trail. The Prairie Child Have I not already told you the ghastly truth?—that there is a secret—an unmentionable secret——” “A secret concerning her!” Hushed Up! A Mystery of London Other salesmen lean furiously over the gallery railing, flourishing shirts, stockings, and garments of every kind, mentionable and unmentionable, in the faces of the gaping loafers below. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 It is a transposition into the regions of the unmentionable, of the Dreyfus case itself. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The origin of the garment of which we have just stripped it would be unmentionable, save in the world of the insect, that manufacturer devoid of shame. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The columns of the newspapers teemed with my advertisements, in which I was declared to be the only regular advertising physician—one who had successfully treated twenty-five millions of cases of delicate unmentionable complaints. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston We trust that he did not scorch very badly on his arrival at this unmentionable destination. Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 One looked startled at humanity, seeing not the accustomed countenance, but, for a moment, glimpsing instead the baleful lidless stare of the evil of the slime, the unmentionable of a nightmare.... Waiting for Daylight Twice in each year the Baron sailed over to France, where he visited the wine-merchants, and tasted samples of all new vintages,—though they frequently gave him unmentionable aches. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale But Fielding's style is unblushingly masculine; his scenes are in the street, the tavern, the sponging-house, and other places unmentionable. Studies in Literature and History "It is a wicked and detestable place, though wonderfully attractive; and there can be no better summary of it, after all, than Hogarth's unmentionable phrase." The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete By this time the populace had invaded the palace and cursed with indignities unmentionable the marble halls, and the furnishings in general, and pillaged such portable property as pleased the individual fancies of the spoilsmen. Royal Palaces and Parks of France He knows more ways to be unmentionable than can be suppressed in seven languages. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Descend we therefore from the head and trunk of man—a curious bathos—to his understandings and unmentionables; you know what we mean. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 But even in this environment the monk's family had made themselves conspicuous by their low and unmentionable customs. Modern Saints and Seers He went ashore at an unmentionable port in a kit bag. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 Her room is a jumble of disorder, a fantasy of dirty clothes, a sequinarium of unmentionables—that is, if the care of it is left to herself. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Then I begged him to give up that unmentionable way of obtaining intelligence. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales A pair of old trousers generally hung by one suspender over a colored shirt, which, the summer before, possibly, had had a wash-tub experience, but not later; his footwear was altogether unmentionable. A Woman who went to Alaska In Wales it is the particular Church, and at Monte Carlo it is the not-at-all-particular t'other word, unmentionable twice in the same paragraph to ears polite. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 The corporal shouted at him; the soldier behind called him unmentionable names in the dialect and pushed him with his foot. Witch-Doctors That all the people do not fall down prostrate at the squeak is, to this order of mind, the one unmentionable sin. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida He had put on a little weight, and military unmentionables, be it known, are notoriously tight. Face to Face with Kaiserism The nurse was forming a sheep skin into a pair of those unmentionables which were known among the Cape-colonists of that period by the name of “crackers.” The Settler and the Savage She was a very cross hen, and her feather unmentionables fitted badly. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood Of course, it is a little embarrassing for the rest of us to have her on such friendly terms with the most unmentionable characters in all Mount Mark. Prudence Says So We had been told of a lady who died in agony because she insisted on telling the doctor that the pain was in her chest, whereas it really was in the unmentionable organ of digestion. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography The creation teemed with the glory of Jehovah, an unmentionable space, for there was no time there. The Secret of the Creation I wish the chaparral was—!” and again the major’s unmentionable words came pouring forth in a volley. The Rifle Rangers These reports began to circulate at the time of the murder of Gandia and of her divorce from Sforza; the cause of both these events was stated to have been an unmentionable crime. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day If his criminals are frequently of the most outrageous kind, and indulge even in practices unmentionable, the crime is intended at least to be of secondary interest. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Well, of all the electroplated figure-heads with which I have come in contact in a long and varied military career, that man is the most unmentionable. On the Heels of De Wet Alfred insisted that the unmentionables Mrs. Young loaned him should be the basis of his clown suit. Watch Yourself Go By Miss Maitland," said the visitor with due solemnity, "I assure you that whatever else I may be, I am as free from the taint of this unmentionable attribute as a babe unborn. White Ashes But to all of these it added the wild privileges of choking, bone-breaking, dislocating, eye-gouging, and the infliction of tortures and grips unmentionable and disreputable. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula "But there are worse things than that," he continued; "unmentionable horrors—things you pick up in the English camps and can't get rid of again——" Hansie understood. The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service There are a great many other unmentionable things on which Dens, in his fourth, fifth, and seventh volumes, requires the confessor to ask from his penitent, which I omit. The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional He clutched at Lin's unmentionables as he hung head downward. Watch Yourself Go By They are neat and clean in their persons, which is a natural consequence of their perpetual bathing; but some of their habits are unmentionable.... Amerigo Vespucci Hung Wapu passed through the store to the chop-house, where several dozen Chinese were squatting on the ground dining on unmentionable Chinese delicacies, which consisted of anything and everything soft enough to be chewed. Banzai! by Parabellum He concluded with some precise instructions, and a few savage sentences, in which he promised an unmentionable fate to the unfortunate who made a sound or failed to follow to the letter his instructions. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers He knew, by confession, that a girl in the vicinity was given to an unmentionable abomination, to which Joseph was also addicted. The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional Her thought was still on the unmentionable new case. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi If affection cools, she is helpless to stir up the embers without unmentionable sacrifice. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals Then the Ladies took out their sewing, and began industriously working at many unmentionable articles, designed for the intimate clothing of a lot of young Methodists confined in an orphans' home in Chicago. Prudence of the Parsonage "Well, unmentionables, my dear—I thought I should have died with laughter." The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' No one said that he was a terrible object which should remain in the background along with family skeletons and unmentionable diseases. The Hidden Places That is an awful intoxication, and makes even men, let alone wild, carnivorous beasts, do unmentionable things. The Way of the Wild People shudder at the very thought of such unmentionable things: but there are circles in society in which such sanctimonious shuddering is a mighty thin veil of hypocrisy. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals It seemed to partake actually of the character of its inmates—to be stained and swollen and out of plumb with unmentionable sins of degeneration. By the Light of the Soul A Novel I polished my subaltern-fellow's buttons, cleaned his boots, and mended his unmentionables. The Parts Men Play There were grunts and murmurings, there were gurgling expletives and splutterings which sent the army, and all fools who joined it, to places of unmentionable climatic conditions. Private Peat Poor workmanship can spoil the best of materials; what it can do with cheaper stuff is absolutely unmentionable. The Complete Home Nor is it necessary to mention certain unmentionable excesses such as were practiced by the degenerate Romans towards the fall of the Empire. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals These are applied to an unmentionable part of the back, which is bared, the poor wretches standing with their hands tied to the pole. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan As the bullets tore through the old fellow's unmentionables, and raking his hide, made it smart, he would shift his position, and endeavor to shield himself all over; but it was of no use. Ellen Walton The Villain and His Victims Gnulemah, withered, stifled, and degraded by some unmentionable curse, might have become a thing not unlike this woman. Idolatry A Romance Pat, with eyes that stood out an unmentionable distance, and mouth stretched from ear to ear, promised, and Adèle proceeded vigorously to sweep the apartment. Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick "Tell me of that once," he said, and, knowing not why, called to mind those four soldiers in France, to her, for some reason, unmentionable. The Flower of the Chapdelaines V. Perhaps thou wert even born To be Unknown.—Perhaps hung, some foggy morn, At Captain Coram's charitable wicket, Pinn'd to a ticket That Fate had made illegible, foreseeing The future great unmentionable being.— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Suddenly a great, monstrous, misbegotten and unmentionable oath rolled from Mr. Stenner's tongue like a cannon shot hurled along an uneven floor! The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Englishmen will welcome the new American playright with the name unmentionable to ears polite, and will recognise in him, as the Dam par excellence, their brother, as one of the uncommon descendants of A-DAM. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 The bellman could not cry the lost unmentionables because it was Sunday, and even if they should be found on the ebbing of the tide, they would take no end of time to dry. Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities On the platform were Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Gage, Mrs. Rose and other noted women, all dressed in unmentionables cut bias, and smoking penny drab cigars. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years A pair of left-off unmentionables is confidently reported to be the cause of their visit in the “far East.” Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 You may tell them in your cynical way that to-day is the only real day, and that there is nothing more unmentionable than yesterday except the day before. Living Alone O blessed thing! this earth we pace Thy haunt should never be, A quite unmentionable place That is fit home for thee! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 It is the magnetic telegraph by which sympathetic hearts convey their untold and unmentionable purposes. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue And the looks they cast upon her were black and frowning, save—and far worse—where the merrier souls leered patronizingly into her face and chuckled unmentionable things. A Daughter of the Snows Who shall quarrel with the Divinely implanted instinct, or declare it to be vulgar or unmentionable? Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics Presently Abel comes in, and wishes Cain good-speed, who meets his kind word with an unmentionable request. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England "Hang the canting vagabond—why not call people by their proper titles; name Old Nick at once, and the lady whose soubriquet is unmentionable, but who, report says, has a town residence in Babylon." International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 At his present best many of his ways are so unpleasant that they are unmentionable in polite society, and so painful that he is compelled to pretend that pain is often a good. Back to Methuselah This villain, who had a most appropriate name, unmentionable to ears polite, completed his charms with a great pair of blue goggles. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 The groom pledged himself to mend the unmentionables of his spouse, or to resign his own when required to rock the cradle, and spank the babies. A Collection of College Words and Customs There had been unmentionable frenzies of elemental anger between them and she feared and exulted in these strange poles of his nature. The Vertical City Others played a peculiar game of cards called Natwawáquawin, or "Marriage," the loser's penalty being droll, but unmentionable. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 Propriety had been outraged on every hand; matters, heretofore deemed unmentionable, rushed into the forefront of knowledge and conversation; yet never had they actually enjoyed themselves so greatly. Deadham Hard It is quite unmentionable,' she returned with a majestic wave. Wee Macgreegor Enlists Nibletts certified the cause of death as that unmentionable complaint, the pip. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 21, 1919 At twenty-three and unmentionably enough, a son of a Brazilian coffee king, inflamed with the deviltry of debauch, had ground a wine tumbler against her forehead, inducing the pock marks. The Vertical City James Rutlidge's greeting was insolently familiar; as a man of certain mind greets--in public--a boon companion of his private and unmentionable adventures. The Eyes of the World Then the two lads went upward, while the serpent bandaged the eyes of his horse and of his hound, and hooded his falcon, and crept gingerly away to hide the egg in an unmentionable place. Figures of Earth Music was the least unmentionable of them, so I brought it forward. My Brilliant Career A bald head, at the present day, is as great an indecency as Humphrey Clinker's unmentionables; and a dismantled mouth is an outrage on well-bred society. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829 He paused with rhetorical defiance, but as no one answered he proceeded to express the teachers and officers in terms of unmentionable quantities. Essays in Rebellion Jim inherited a few odd millions from his father, and killed himself spending them in unmentionable ways. The Eyes of the World ‘Rather before than arter,’ adds the man with the semi-roasted unmentionables, with just as much ease and complacency as if the whole world got out of bed at five. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people "What the unmentionable to ears polite, do you think I want with rouge?" David Copperfield That all the members were forbidden to have connexion with women, but might give themselves up without restraint to every species of unmentionable debauchery. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 A little farther up Fifth Avenue, Beaufort appeared on his doorstep, darkly projected against a blaze of light, descended to his private brougham, and rolled away to a mysterious and probably unmentionable destination. The Age of Innocence I am an instigator of degrading immorality and unmentionable crimes. The Eyes of the World The knees of the unmentionables, and the elbows of the coat, and the seams generally, soon began to get alarmingly white. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people It began by calling me Pig, and from that went crescendo into unmentionable adjectives—in English. Youth, a Narrative This brace performs several tasks at the same time, such as holding unmentionable garments in place, keeping the wearer erect, and providing a night-key guard. The Ways of Men But, good Lord, don't run away with the idea that I don't see the drawbacks—horrors—unmentionable things done in our very midst! The Voyage Out He drew Jurgis out, and heard all about his life all but the one unmentionable thing; and then he told stories about his own life. The Jungle ‘Yes; and here you’re likely to be,’ said Gabriel, coolly, as he rattled the money in his unmentionable pockets, and looked out of the window. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Very probably the result of the unmentionable practices of the Orient. Java Head Besides this, the whole place reeks intolerably with garlic, which, mixed with whiff of incense from the church within and other unmentionable smells, makes such a compound that only a brave nose can stand it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 And a belief in matter itself is unmentionable and inexpressible,—it is neither a thing nor no-thing: and this is known even by children and ignorant persons. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints They are the party in whose ranks—high in whose ranks, I might say—are those who stooped with baseness, with deceit unmentionable, to rid themselves of you. The Mischief Maker ‘Yes; and here you’re likely to be,’ said Gabriel, coolly, as he rattled the money in his unmentionable pockets, and looked out of the window. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people For a few days we resided in the town, where several of the best houses had been put at our disposal; but the countless host of unmentionable insects fairly drove us away. Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People Her husband, if he was her husband, never gave me any title, except when he was abusing me, and then my names were many and unmentionable. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons The unventilated dressing-room of the Olympia Music-Hall in Marseilles reeked of grease paint, stale human exhalations, the acrid odour, creeping up the iron stairs, of a mangy performing lion, and all manner of unmentionable things. The Mountebank She looked at him and in those strange-colored eyes of hers were unmentionable things. The Mischief Maker Ptolemy had not exerted himself for his release, and he had suffered unmentionable indignities. Caesar: a Sketch At the slightest agitation all the accumulated ooze and filth of generations—rags and decomposing frogs and things unmentionable—rise to the surface in turbid clouds. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia When he had mentioned Lindsay's offer to Dresser, who was rising at laborious hours and toiling in the McNamara and Hill's offices, he realized how unmentionable and trifling were his grounds for hesitation. The Web of Life To have known the wife in her humble days and to have done her a favor makes the sin unmentionable as well as unpardonable. We Can't Have Everything The kind of people who read Har—our unmentionable author, don't frequent Bohemian coffee cellars. From a Bench in Our Square Furthermore, widows have a way of appearing to be loaded down with ducats, when, in reality, they are pawning the late defunct's unmentionables for the means of existence. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 39, December 24, 1870. No. Church is respectable and aristocratic; and there one don't get sent to a place unmentionable, ten times an hour, by some inspired tinker. Two Years Ago, Volume I The spitting was incessant, and attended with certain unmentionable circumstances which render it most disgusting and offensive. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States That bonfire yonder has a sort of cannibalistic look about it suggestive of dancing negroes and unmentionable feasts behind the flames. Only an Incident In 1878, unless pushed by necessity, no girl might dream of a vocation: the idea was monstrous; it was almost unmentionable. Hilda Lessways The Apaches had inflicted unmentionable torments upon him and his, and the strop was his dearest possession. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch Yes,"—and Mr. Trebooze consigned the said cottages to a variety of unmentionable places; "cost me more in rates than they bring in in rent, even if I get the rent paid. Two Years Ago, Volume I Lost in smoke, the clerk grumbled that the gory affair was unmentionable nonsense. Dragon's blood I had a store of withering phrases burning to be poured over his unmentionable head. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 Remedies were ordered that must have been suggested by the imagination; things odious, abominable, unmentionable; flesh of vipers, powder of dead men's bones, and other horrors, best mused in expressive silence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 The guide replied in very concise English, telling him to go to a place unmentionable to polite ears. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" Until his face had been seen, stamped as it was with the traces of long and unmentionable wickedness, few honest men could guess to what depths humanity can sink. The People of the Mist I don't mean that he has been particularly seedy either, certainly nothing beyond an unmentionable ache. Canada for Gentlemen We embarked for the first in a filthy boat, full of unmentionable vermin, and started down the river in the evening, with storms of thunder and lightning and wind preluding the monsoon. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II Mr. Du Maurier, in his unmentionable novel, suspects, like Lowell, that a drop of it has lurked in every artistic temperament. Without Prejudice Extremes meet here as elsewhere and the extremes of vice and virtue are alike common and unmentionable. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler I refer to wanton wholesale murder, often with torture; assault with violence, robbery in a hundred cruel forms, and a dozen unmentionable crimes invented by degenerate man and widely practiced. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Some of his genial tenderness was lost forever, and the family lived on with the unmentionable name ever before them, like a grave which was never to be filled. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Minister Morris is in the midst of horrors unmentionable. The Maid of Maiden Lane The host, with a rotund, smiling face, his nose, like Bardolph's, blazing with fiery meteors, and a short, white apron, concealing his unmentionables, quickly answered the tintinabulary summons. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 01 This veil, no doubt, had very much the air Of those unmentionables parsons wear; And this the nun, to frolicking inclined, It seems had well impressed upon her mind. Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete On the former, the greatest drawback to peaceful cycling is the towing-mule and his unwarrantable animosity toward the bicycle, and the awful, unmentionable profanity engendered thereby in the utterances of the boatmen. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran Whereupon the abashed wheelman went,—whether to Brighton, as the irate lady suggested, or to a warmer place unmentionable history sayeth not. God's Good Man He says that the God that made iron wished not slaves to exist, and thinks there is a profound and eternal justice in this desolation and retribution of aristocrats who have committed unmentionable oppressions. The Maid of Maiden Lane There is a tendency, I am sure, in books, to shirk the whole subject of fear, as though it were a thing disgraceful, shameful, almost unmentionable. Where No Fear Was Consider that unmentionable fact, and then say whether I am wrong in refusing to forgive Miss Royston. The Odd Women If it is not quite unmentionable, tell me. Hedda Gabler The very name bestowed upon it is a combination of all that is horrid and unmentionable to a civilized being. Omoo And then the singers!—men and women—they are unmentionable. Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words Had I done anything yet with regard to Dale and the unmentionable woman? Simon the Jester Let me know if you hear anything further from your unmentionable quarter. Sybil, or the Two Nations All the neighbours, in night-caps and unmentionables, were groping round the tents, to inquire what was the matter. The Eureka Stockade They finally forced the police to arrest Mr Daly and his company, and led the magistrate to express his loathing of the duty thus forced upon him of reading an unmentionable and abominable play. How He Lied to Her Husband There was another consideration, unmentionable by the recruiting sergeants and war orators, which must nevertheless have helped them powerfully in procuring soldiers by voluntary enlistment. O'Flaherty V.C. : a recruiting pamphlet In his code there was one shameless piece of utter and unmentionable degradation—it was to borrow of a friend. Under Two Flags McFudd wrapped Waller's coat about his thin girth and turned up the bagging legs, of the unmentionables six inches above his shoes. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn Asa Assistance! what to get out of my unmentionables and into them again? Our American Cousin "Allusions to the pavement in the unmentionable place are barred in this connection," he continued gayly. The Red Acorn One or two other prescriptions, of the many unmentionable ones which disgraced the pharmacopoeia of the seventeenth century, are to be found, but only in very rare instances, in the faded characters of the manuscript. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 My refusal led those sons of dogs to attempt to frighten my wife with threats of unmentionable horrors unless she delivered up the papers I had secreted. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series The terminating frills of a white unmentionable garment showed beneath her skirts. All Roads Lead to Calvary Here too is our poor unmentionable Duke of Mecklenburg: poor soul, he has left his quarrels with the Ritterschaft for a week or two, and is here breathing the air of the Elbe Heaths. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 I cast one unmentionable word on the breeze toward the cabin and Frank, then put mind and muscle to the sore task of remaining with Spot. The Last of the Plainsmen Quite possibly there were unmentionable volumes among them—de Maupassant, perhaps Boccaccio. The Confession As is common in most modern discussions the unmentionable thing is the pivot of the whole discussion. What's Wrong with the World And there came to him one who was as perversely tall as a certain unmentionable object and bearded in a manner it is not convenient to describe. A Parody Outline of History To this unmentionable Duke of Mecklenburg she has left one Daughter, a Princess Elizabeth-Catherine, who will be called Princess ANNE, one day: whose fortunes in the world may turn out to be tragical. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 Such sympathy as I have would certainly be with those who are attempting to bring to justice the perpetrator of such unmentionable crimes. The Illustrious Prince Epigrams henceforth become, not sharp and bitter; but cruel, atrocious, unmentionable. The French Revolution He remembered suddenly he had heard about the symptoms of an unmentionable, dreadful disease, and a vague terror took possession of him. Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author Collecting afresh all his energies, he directed Jukes in a low and brutal tone to shove the unmentionable instrument down his gory throat. Typhoon And all this, please observe, for a society without treasury or commercial prestige, for a play which was being denounced in advance as unmentionable, for an author without influence at the fashionable theatres! Mrs. Warren's Profession The train attendant, who was a nervous man, began to shiver again and imagine unmentionable things. The Illustrious Prince |
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