| 单词 | unprepossessing |
| 例句 | Just sixty-five million years ago our ancestors were the most unprepossessing of mammals—creatures with the size and intelligence of moles or tree shrews. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the unprepossessing farmer with his filthy coveralls is actually an enormously rich man with a four-thousand-acre spread, and sometimes the teenager is coming back later with Mom and Dad. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z This gives an accurate indication of Hooke’s intellectual standing at the time, as well as an idea of his unprepossessing appearance. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I scuffled through the jars and envelopes and came up with it, an unprepossessing dried brown scrap. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z How is it that such an unprepossessing show is even stickier than Sesame Street? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The small combined store, repair shop, and lunch room behind the gas pumps was as unprepossessing as any I have ever seen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At first glance it seemed unprepossessing: just a small, flat, unpainted, circular disk of hard-baked clay, 6 1/2 inches in diameter. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The latter sat facing Poirot, and for the second time Poirot studied that unprepossessing face, noting the false benevolence of the brow and the small, cruel eyes. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Parked on the gravel was an unprepossessing Ford sedan. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The instant his unprepossessing head emerged into daylight, sunlight, Franny took him under the shoulders and lifted him up into intimate greeting distance. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Botanists are still using these unprepossessing, desiccated branches and leaves to discover some pretty vital aspects of our world, primarily the evolutionary relationships among plants. Perspective | Dead plants’ evolutionary secrets might save the planet, or at least take its pulse 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Harvey Weinstein, standing with his mother and brother outside an unprepossessing building in Queens, was until very recently a symbol of Hollywood power. A Decade of Power, in Photographs 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z He is a little unprepossessing for a man who stirred the multitudes, but this is true generally of the film. Temporal approach sets the tone in 'Killing Jesus' 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z If Humboldt’s large-scale cannabis industry has a factory town, it’s Garberville, an unprepossessing community not far from the Mendocino County border. T Magazine: The High Life 2011-03-25T17:30:04Z The artist and educator Bob Ross, whose chipper television performances encouraged countless amateurs to try landscape painting, built his art empire in unprepossessing surroundings. A Panorama of Design 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z This book, one of the outstanding novels of the postwar period, is about a gentle, submissive, gullible woman whose arrogant, worldly husband leaves her for someone strong and manipulative, but otherwise perfectly unprepossessing. Elizabeth Jenkins obituary 2010-09-07T17:43:00Z But in its own unprepossessing manner, this fat-free, affectionate debut feature from the director Luke Snellin embodies the Christmas spirit of tolerance and generosity — spiced up with some genuinely funny scenes. Netflix’s 2019 Holiday Movies, Reviewed and Ranked 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “You can’t worry about it until it’s time to worry about it,” Mr. Meyers said, sitting in his unprepossessing office at 30 Rock. Seth Meyers: Smart Guy in the Wiseguy Seat 2014-02-23T22:43:45Z A giant red crawfish painted on the door of a low, unprepossessing barn marks the spot. Where Crawfish Are Boiled, Fried and Celebrated 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z And from the circle of Andrea Mantegna comes an unusual rendering of “The Descent Into Limbo,” in which Christ ducks under a low, unprepossessing archway. 5 Great Art Exhibitions to See in New York Before They Close 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The principal towns of the Gascon heartland are for the most part unprepossessing: gritty market hubs that, on the face of it, hold little appeal for the tourist. Is Gascony the Most Delicious Corner of France? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Wilkes is one of the leading lights of the white-hot Glasgow contemporary art scene, and her unprepossessing sculpture, installations and paintings are shown to advantage here. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z At the end, a number of former campers reunite at the camp’s unprepossessing present-day site. ‘Crip Camp’ Review: After Those Summers, Nothing Was the Same 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z It resolves into a Brown Argus — tiny, unprepossessing, difficult to distinguish. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of our Emperors and?Admirals by Patrick Barkham ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z Nearby, in among some Mixtec gold pendants discovered in the 1970s by an octopus fisherman from Veracruz, is an unprepossessing lump of bullion. Review | Gold, jade, macaw feathers, turquoise: Ancient American beauty at the Met 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z A study in frustration, then, and many actors play the role as querulous, unprepossessing. In praise of … Ken Stott 2013-01-20T21:03:58Z He praised the healing powers of his “unprepossessing cabin,” the sandwich and celery stalk contained in his lunch pail and the decadent stack of pancakes he was served in the mornings. Philip Roth may have given his last public talk 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The aggressively respectable Mrs. Forbes’s adored son, Graham, is actually a narcissistic homosexual who marries a woman who seems dim and unprepossessing but is a financial genius who secretly saves him from ruin. Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z At one particularly erudite confrontation, the movie director Michelangelo Antonioni is pitted against an unprepossessing old woman; still another requires the group’s mysterious leader, known as the Great Protagoras, to face an upstart challenger. Who killed Roland Barthes? Maybe Umberto Eco has a clue. 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z By the time Marilyn threw herself and her hopes at the unprepossessing figure of Lee Strasberg, her image as MM the blonde bombshell was thoroughly reified, at least in the eyes of a mesmerised public. John Banville on Marilyn Monroe 50 years after her death 2012-08-03T21:55:13Z Often, on the face of it, the work is unprepossessing. Review | Zoe Leonard speaks straight to your soul 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z They regularly go through fond but ruthless checklists of what makes their nephew so unprepossessing, which includes not just his gnarled body but his face, his eyes and his personality. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Daniel Radcliffe as Cripple Billy 2013-06-27T17:08:49Z We furtively checked again, noted the tacky, unprepossessing venue, the clothing, the handbag and the husband, who seemed pleasant but a bit nondescript. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Confessions of a purse snatcher 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Nordic noir has more than its share of depressed, unprepossessing detectives — the gloomy hero of “Wallander,” a Swedish series adapted by the British, is but one of many. Rainn Wilson Plays a Caustic Investigator in ‘Backstrom’ on Fox 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The food does most of the talking at this spacious, unprepossessing restaurant. A Four-Day Feast in Philadelphia 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z It’s a tiny, unprepossessing thing made from black paint slathered over wrinkled fabric and aluminum foil. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine how this slender, unprepossessing woman could possibly project to the last rows of a theater — but she does. The Gender’s the Thing: Harriet Walter Plays Shakespeare’s Heroes as Heroines 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The Last Taylor Gourmet looks unprepossessing when I finally see it. D.C.’s most exclusive sandwich may be from Taylor Gourmet ... at the airport 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The rather drab and unprepossessing Juvenex is a short walk from the sleek and very well-kept Aura Wellness Spa on West 33rd Street. In Midtown, Igloos Are Hot 2010-09-16T04:20:00Z Otherwise, the podcasts are mostly recorded in Mr. Dalton’s unprepossessing studio apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where he lives with his wife, Ayako, a private chef, and their young son, Louie. The History of Wine in 442 Podcasts 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z This island, an unprepossessing chunk of rock out in Boston Harbor, houses an asylum for the criminally insane, one of whom — a woman who murdered her children — has somehow managed to vanish from her cell. 2010-02-06T04:17:00Z A three-lane gyre of fast moving vehicles built over a gloomy subterranean shopping precinct and a forgettable metro station — this is surely London at its most unprepossessing. Watch out, Silicon Valley 2012-06-27T01:50:00Z Turgis, alternatively, is a lovesick solitary, convinced, in spite of his unprepossessing exterior, that the relationship of a lifetime is just around the corner. JB Priestley: adventures of the 'tradesman of letters' 2012-11-09T22:55:06Z It is a fairly unprepossessing butcher shop that happens to contain a tapas bar, or vice versa. A Blurry Line Between Bar and Restaurant 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z It looked like it would sail through the House of Representatives as well, until an unprepossessing man with the unlikely name of Gulian C. Verplanck stepped up to the speaker’s podium on July 9. Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America 2012-08-16T17:47:00Z The court's loudest detractors are a fairly unprepossessing bunch to find myself agreeing with. When wrongdoers forfeit human rights 2012-05-26T23:05:57Z The second floor includes her unprepossessing but charming early sculpture: the “Bottle People Series,” modest glass bottles humanized with headdresses and such, made in 1997, while she was at The Cooper Union. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z It tells the story of how an unprepossessing young prisoner, Malik, grows in confidence, power and assertiveness during his sentence. Design: Making an Art Out of Credit Rolls 2010-03-01T11:10:00Z Haggis' screenplay is based on a little-seen French thriller called "Pour Elle," which asks one of those Hitchcock questions: Can this ordinary, unprepossessing guy transform himself into a master criminal for love? "The Next Three Days": Russell Crowe's gloomy jailbreak 2010-11-19T20:45:00Z "He was a rather unprepossessing character as a young man," said Thamer. Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum 2010-10-14T15:39:00Z At last year's Edinburgh fringe, one of the most talked-about shows was the debut from seemingly unprepossessing bearded primary school teacher David Trent. This week's new live comedy 2013-01-26T06:00:13Z And Ms. Spina, an unprepossessing performer, is a true tap artist, a living heir to such teachers of hers as Honi Coles, Chuck Green and Buster Brown. Review: The Peggy Spina Tap Company at the Spina Loft in SoHo 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z The walk began on an otherwise unprepossessing corner in Bushwick, which Mr. Freeman explained was the geographic center of New York City. Where the Sidewalks End, and the City (Really) Begins 2010-09-10T04:30:00Z Castelli Gallery An unprepossessing walk-up on the corner of Madison and 80th Street houses a new, second space for Castelli, the longtime gallery of the sculptor Robert Morris. Surprise: The Upper East Side Turns Experimental (for Art) 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He connected to the larger picture, contributing to a gig that stayed curious and unprepossessing, not overshadowed by its occasion or back story. Peter Bernstein Quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z One unprepossessing creature With a lot of just one feature: Legs are it! Style Invitational: What do you mean ‘What are these’? 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Behind their unprepossessing exteriors lurk traces of loneliness, homesickness, fear or affection. Tales of the unexplained: why these Monsters are entirely alien 2010-12-06T11:57:00Z While Silberman is tremendous at conveying the neuroses of a claustrophobic, hermetic relationship in song, he is an unprepossessing presence live. The Antlers 2010-05-23T21:15:00Z Most are modest in spirit and unprepossessing in appearance. Life at Caleta 111 Revolves Around Limes and Tiger’s Milk 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z An anonymous cartoon titled A Couple of Humbugs depicted her gazing adoringly at her unprepossessing husband. Royal wedding cartoons show William and Kate are lucky it's 2011 2011-04-02T06:00:01Z Quietly unprepossessing in person, Ms. Lenk onstage projects a slightly opaque sensuality that does not feel forbiddingly aloof but warm and intriguing. Katrina Lenk Can Quietly Break Your Heart 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z And those initial audiences hated Fosca, the grasping, manipulative, unprepossessing third point of the show’s love triangle. 20 Stephen Sondheim Songs to Listen to Right Now 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z She became a popular writer, and Heyrman catches her, in her fiction, dissing the very prototype of her “unprepossessing” father. The Love Triangle That Caused a Religious Panic 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z It's immediately recognisable as a Shane Meadows picture both through the harsh, handheld, in-your-face aesthetic, indebted to the realism of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, and the now familiar, unprepossessing mug of Meadows himself. Britain's best film directors show some early promise 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z The poor old male organ is an unprepossessing bit of flesh. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z Few of the works in “Image Object,” a show of conceptually complicated and visually unprepossessing sculptures at City Hall Park in Manhattan, are likely to stop busy pedestrians in their tracks. Review: ‘Image Object’ Looks at the Relationship Between the Virtual and the Physical 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Visitors viewing the unprepossessing monogrammed shirt may well pity the tortured soul who wore it, who fervently believed that appearances mattered. Antiques: An Antiques Sale at Ross Art Group 2013-04-18T20:02:45Z Berenson lives in a villa down an unprepossessing road on the outskirts of Marrakech. 'I did the first nude in Vogue': Marisa Berenson on being a blazing star of the 70s and beyond 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “They wanted to live comfortably with their art and their children in a house that was very calm, very clean and unprepossessing — with nothing off-limits to the kids.” On Location: Larchmont, N.Y.: Break It and No Allowance 2014-03-06T01:20:24Z In Ithaca, enthusiasts plan to install a movie museum in an unprepossessing storage building in Stewart Park, on Cayuga Lake. Getting a Close-Up of the Silent-Film Era 2013-08-15T21:04:52Z Unwilling to rat his buddy out, the terrified, physically unprepossessing Jason is tossed into the pen, where he'll be as defenseless as a rabbit in a foxhole. Review: 'Snitch a well-made yarn about drug world 2013-02-21T23:17:09Z The little pension in which I set up Mozart-stalking headquarters was on an unprepossessing side street equidistant from the Vienna State Opera and the Stadtpark. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z With two parts to go, there's plenty of time for ritual disappointment, but this opener seemed to bring something of the unsettling flavour of Twin Peaks to an unprepossessing corner of England. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z The outside of Old Nick’s is unprepossessing and the inside only a little better. The best towns and small cities in the US: Eugene, Oregon 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Another wall sculpture, “Neon Templates of the Left Half of My Body Taken at Ten-Inch Intervals,” is an unprepossessing network of weakly glowing light tubes and sagging writing. Bruce Nauman Reappears: Pay Attention 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z She’s a photographer who takes pictures of young men, with a particular preference for guys that are unprepossessing, shy and biddable. ‘Boy Parts’ Review: Onstage, a Dangerous Woman Isn’t Enough 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Claiming to look like an unprepossessing Plasticine model he does not in fact remotely resemble seems an odd way to curry favour. Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z Massena was, and is, an unprepossessing village on the New York side of the St. Lawrence River. When an Ancient Slander Against Jews Came to America 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The book, which measures about 12 by 14 inches and weighs 26 pounds, is housed in an unprepossessing early 20th-century brown leather binding. Oldest Nearly Complete Hebrew Bible Heads to Auction 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The choices of costume designer Dominique Fawn Hill seem only to draw out the characters’ most unprepossessing personality features. Review: Geffen Playhouse's 'The Ants' reveals just how perilous the horror genre can be 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Yet he remained unprepossessing throughout his life, preferring tattered shirts and khakis to tailored suits. Gordon E. Moore, the Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The show, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sounds unprepossessing. Review | Scarred by defeat, they gave birth to a golden age of Danish art 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Walk down an unprepossessing, fluorescent-lit hallway, with its drinking fountains and bulletin boards, following the thumping bass and happy hollering. From disco days to Seattle dance parties, the hustle brings us together 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z The unprepossessing title is “Fam and Yam,” which sounds like something Samuel Beckett might have considered and rejected for one of his minimalist creations. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Even in its prewar heyday, the street might have appeared unprepossessing to outsiders. 'They didn’t expect us to fight back': How one street in Ukraine survived 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The few known fish from that period are jawless and generally unprepossessing, Dr. Coates said. Fossilized Fish Reveal Earliest Known Prequel of ‘Jaws’ 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z It’s a smart way of playing with scale, slowing the viewer down, under-promising and overdelivering, and perhaps there’s an echo here of Marcel Duchamp’s “Étant Donnés,” also accessed through an unprepossessing little peephole. Review | At the Whitney Biennial, mostly serious work for a serious age 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Bizarrely, once in bankruptcy Hertz became a meme stock, favored by denizens of internet message boards despite its unprepossessing condition. Column: Hertz symbolizes everything that's wrong with American corporations 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Once it is set vibrating, the unprepossessing instrument produces frequencies that seem to come out of nowhere and that commands the power of hypnosis. Commentary: The L.A. Phil looks at the unexpected places film music is going 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Despite this unprepossessing record of vigilance, the federation’s statement drew fire from anti-vaccination groups. Column: A warning to doctors: Spreading COVID misinformation could cost them their licenses 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Some 2,000 of those people work in Bed & Bath’s unprepossessing headquarters complex in Union, where it’s a major employer. Perspective | Like GameStop, Bed Bath & Beyond has been reduced to a meme stock. But 42,000 people work there. 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Walt Disney bought unprepossessing chunks of central Florida land from unsuspecting citrus farmers and transformed them into a Neverland of princesses and talking mice. Perspective | Trump made official what has always been obvious: He’s Florida Man 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z At first, in a meeting about violence prevention, he comes across as earnest but unprepossessing. What if the Great American Novelist Doesn’t Write Novels? 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z All told, the tree is an unprepossessing specimen; most people march past it without giving it a second glance. The Past and the Future of the Earth’s Oldest Trees 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Valerie Harper, who parlayed a sidekick role as the leading lady’s unprepossessing best friend on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” into a star turn of her own in the hit sitcom “Rhoda,” died on Friday. Valerie Harper, Who Won Fame and Emmys as ‘Rhoda,’ Dies at 80 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The couple lived in an unprepossessing apartment above a dentist named Goris. The Empty Promise of Boris Johnson 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z He did a considerable amount of guest conducting and recording, generally on a high, if unprepossessing, level. André Previn: A hit in Hollywood, lionized in London, but it all began in Berlin 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The plot, which now houses an unprepossessing branch of the US chain TGI Fridays, is open to private developers on the condition they use it for restaurants and cafes that serve the park. Stockholm says no to Apple 'town square' in its oldest park 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z But it offers a palpable sense of the fleeting set of circumstances that once made this unprepossessing Michigan suburb a laboratory for the future of American living. How Michigan Became the Epicenter of the Modernist Experiment 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z For a long time it was housed in a dingy former military building in an unprepossessing part of the city. China fights Taiwan on airline websites 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “We hope to expose and deconstruct this unprepossessing yet deeply insidious and pernicious text.” The core Isis manual that twisted Islam to legitimise barbarity 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z In her new film, Let the Sunshine In, Juliette Binoche plays an intelligent, creative, beautiful woman who seeks sexual rapture with men who are variously pompous, self-absorbed, rebarbative and physically unprepossessing. Claire Denis: ‘I couldn’t care less about the Weinstein affair' 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Jar Jar Binks is unprepossessing at first glance, the sinuous elegance of this amphibian can command a room. Opinion | If male authors described men in literature the way they describe women 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z About 1,200 people showed up at Oxford’s unprepossessing Iffley Road track to watch, and though the day was blustery and damp — inauspicious conditions for a record-setting effort — a record is what they saw. Sir Roger Bannister, First Athlete to Break 4-Minute Mile, Dies at 88 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Surveying the unprepossessing landscape of Charleston’s Upper Peninsula, Mr. Zoukis imagined that it could be so much more. A Vibrant Turnaround for a Neglected Charleston Neighborhood 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z With the aid of Denise Scott Brown, his wife and partner, Mr Venturi reconciled an unprepossessing site with a wealth of architectural history. When architects design for mum and dad 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z There’s one right down the street from you, after all, 367 12th Street in downtown Oakland, a humble little place that goes by the unprepossessing name Adult Book Store. 10 years ago on Salon: Does Google Street View signal the end of anonymity in public life? 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Trilling wondered how “this unprepossessing woman” could “create around her such an air of superbness.” The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z “It was a very unprepossessing area with a big car park and one large office block. It wasn’t visible or on a main thoroughfare.” Just do it: the experience economy and how we turned our backs on ‘stuff’ 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The foreigners who live and work here include many Muslims; an unprepossessing mosque operates in a converted house on a residential street, and there are regular gatherings for holidays like Nowruz, the Persian New Year. After Visa Ban, Hints of Hidden Tension on Mississippi Campus 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z On the first day, Masto found herself with more than 30 women crowded into an unprepossessing room with a single stove and a sink. Remembrance of tastes past: Syria’s disappearing food culture | Wendell Steavenson 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Another unit in the same building was dark and unprepossessing. A Studio Apartment for Two Men and Three-Dogs 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z “It arrived in a really unprepossessing polystyrene box,” says Mr. Spencer. A Perfect Burger: The Holy Grail of Food Delivery 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z As he moved into his unprepossessing office, on the department’s sixth floor, Clinton told him, “Good luck—and I’m afraid we’re already in trouble!” Why Obama Has Failed to Close Guantánamo 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z He’s an unprepossessing presence, a diligent plugger, doggedly pursuing his agenda. ‘Unlocking the Cage’: dry-as-dust documentary on animal-rights crusader 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z And it remains an unprepossessing city to look at. Times Square - but not as you know it - BBC News 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Number 41 Great Portland Street to be precise, just a few doors down from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s unprepossessing embassy and the showroom of a Danish bathroom tap manufacturer. Radiohead's corporate empire: inside the band's dollars and cents 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The unanswerable but ever intriguing question, of course, is how much of Curry is self-made, and how much inherited physical genius was always housed in that unprepossessing slimness. The hidden price Steph Curry pays for making the impossible seem effortless 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The house he rents in Arverne, Queens, is an unprepossessing four-bedroom cottage in a lower-middle-class neighborhood, with cigarette butts peppering the lawn. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z It turns out to be an unprepossessing white clapboard house on a frontage road off the freeway: authenticity! Why not Kasich! Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and my week on the trail with the GOP 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The Space The wooden beams and trim beyond the unprepossessing exterior are designed to resemble a traditional Korean house, or “hanok.” Review: At So Kong Dong, Korean Soups Bring Two Kinds of Heat 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z It was unprepossessing: a hut of a building on an unmarked road. Ranking the World’s Best Restaurants 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z When I rang the doorbell, I was greeted by an unprepossessing man in his early eighties. Can Pope Francis Really Change the Church? 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Waters told me recently in his unprepossessing office downtown, in an hour stolen from post-production on a neighboring floor; a sign on his door read "I Have Seen Better Days." 'Drunk History' creator says he aims to inform, but thanks for the laughs 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z It is an artifact of a border dispute of long standing, and neither Serbia nor Croatia expresses a desire to rule over this unprepossessing Gibraltar-size property. The Making of a President 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z The 172-year-old structure, with its mantle of poison ivy and brush, was unprepossessing, to say the least. A historic cabin, once ‘hidden,’ is back in the family 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Arriving at Wallace’s unprepossessing ranch home, he’s prepared to meet the heroic author and burgeoning literary rock star that he has conjured in his most resentful speculations. ‘The End of the Tour,’ a five-day conversation you won’t want to end 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z What Nymphlight demonstrates is the radical equanimity of Cornell’s vision, his capacity for finding beauty in the most unprepossessing of physical forms. Joseph Cornell: how the reclusive artist conquered the art world – from his mum’s basement 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z They reacted with unease to Lawrence's enthusiasm for what they considered a most unprepossessing project. How the father of big science went small with the invention of a color TV tube 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z L. Ron Hubbard, or LRH, as he liked to style himself, was an American of unprepossessing origins in search of meaning and money. Religion is a pyramid scheme: Scientology and the lasting lesson of “Going Clear” 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z For all that, Mr. Putin was considered an efficient, unprepossessing administrator, helping businessmen cut through the bureaucracy. It Pays to Be Putin’s Friend 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z The equally unprepossessing Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party is setting the English polling stations alight with his promises of freedom from European lawmakers. Scotland Independence Referendum - 5 Things Everyone's Thinking But Nobody's Saying 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The actors are unprepossessing: they wear street clothes and strut and slouch like everyday people. Juárez: A Documentary Mythology – a city of death finds voices to reaffirm life 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z In an unprepossessing area of Twitter's Twitter's San Francisco offices that’s normally off limits to visitors, sits the converted conference room that serves as the company’s temporary World Cup command post. Watching Team USA's Swan Song From Twitter's World Cup Nerve Center 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Still, even with the odd misgiving or two, “The Grand Seduction” will effortlessly charm anyone susceptible to an endearing story told with modesty, wit and unprepossessing sweetness. ‘The Grand Seduction’ review: A cozy, fish-out-of-water tale For all its weaknesses, though, “Ping Pong Summer” exudes an undeniable sweetness: There’s a refreshingly un-slick, handmade modesty to it that suits Rad’s own unprepossessing nature. ‘Ping Pong Summer’ takes a sweet, if uneven, glance back at kids coming of age in Ocean City in the 1980s. He praised the healing powers of his "unprepossessing cabin," the sandwich and celery stalk contained in his lunch pail and the decadent stack of pancakes he was served in the mornings. Philip Roth may have given his last public talk 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z If you were to go to the site itself, you wouldn't see any walls or warehouses at all, just a rather unprepossessing field. Are archaeological digs a thing of the past? 2014-05-02T15:57:59Z Short and unprepossessing, he’s not hero material, though by glowering and dropping his voice an octave he can pass for an outlaw adult. REVIEW: Need for Speed: It Kills and Thrills. Deal With It. 2014-03-14T20:39:48Z His unprepossessing title, “Information Management: A Proposal,” indicates that he wasn’t trying to change the world. The Web at 25: Revisiting Tim Berners-Lee’s Amazing Propsal Document 2014-03-12T12:30:03Z This unprepossessing early primate was even smaller than today’s smallest primate, the pygmy mouse lemur of Madagascar. Palm-Size Fossil Resets Primates’ Clock, Scientists Say 2013-06-05T18:53:47Z It is his unprepossessing physique that means Bobs Worth has probably run his last race of the season and will not be seen until autumn. Nicky Henderson already planning fresh triumphs after Cheltenham 2013-03-16T20:08:20Z Unlike Cardinal Wyszynski, a thundering autocrat, Cardinal Glemp was a quiet, unprepossessing man with a homespun modesty strangely becoming in the ornate splendor of great cathedrals and his palatial Warsaw residence. Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Poland Is Dead at 83 2013-01-24T03:56:44Z The street may most politely be described as unprepossessing. Breaking Bread: Fernando Ferrer: With Transit Chairmanship, Fernando Ferrer Slips Back Onstage 2013-01-14T00:57:43Z If an obituary for this unprepossessing derelict seems premature, then call this a biography. City Room: A Building That Endured Nearly Two Centuries Is Threatened by Hurricane Sandy 2012-11-18T16:36:26Z A physically unprepossessing woman with little money and few prospects. Helen Gurley Brown, Who Gave Cosmopolitan Its Purr, Is Dead at 90 2012-08-13T21:30:01Z "This is the spot - this is where it all started," says historian Aidan Turner-Bishop pointing down to a small, unmarked and unprepossessing, shingle beach. Mitt Romney's English Mormon roots 2012-06-13T21:15:06Z However, his countenance had a good-humoured expression, which made up for much; neither was it of that vulgar ugliness which robes and ermine but serve to render more low and unprepossessing. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Of the three men only one had a really unprepossessing and murderous countenance. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z In personal appearance Howard is described as having been short, thin and sallow—unprepossessing apart from the attraction of a penetrating eye and a benevolent smile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Fenton, who was a tall, ungainly lad of most unprepossessing appearance, shook his head. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z I do not much mind sharing a stable with Boy, but I "draw the line" at buffaloes, and came out again into the frosty 328 air, into an inhospitable and altogether unprepossessing crowd. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z She had a great dread of old people's being untidy or unprepossessing in appearance, and never grudged the moments spent in adjusting the right cap and lace collar. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Under Toledo's watchful eye, two beardless Italian boys, unprepossessing in appearance, were serving the dessert at the luncheon. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z The race inhabiting the island, notwithstanding some favourable exceptions, is rather unprepossessing and decrepit, owing to the elements of which it is composed. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Everything about the cabaret was rough, uncomfortable, and unprepossessing. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The Khan's son, a most unprepossessing young man, called on me, and I received him under the trees, a 106 number of retainers armed with long guns standing round the edge of the carpet. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z In both cases it is probable that the specimen offered for sale will have a most unprepossessing exterior, and in some instances the price asked may be small. Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs 2011-12-21T03:00:41.820Z The tall and by no means unprepossessing form of the captain, armed cap-à-pie, is leaning against the rudder-wheel, one spoke of which he holds. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z The man was probably quite all right; his appearance and manner were certainly not unprepossessing. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z His nephew felt that he had never seen him present so unprepossessing a spectacle. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z The town was an unprepossessing affair of two or three streets, whitewash and thatch squeezed between green and gold pubs, like old country-women among fashionable daughters. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z She looked, if not exactly divine, then certainly not unprepossessing. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Very unprepossessing, indeed, was the building to behold from the outside, but no sooner had they entered, than they opened their eyes wide with astonishment. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z "I told the judge about her—that she was the ablest applicant, but very unprepossessing in appearance." The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z I gladly embraced his offer, and left him, better pleased with the result of my interview than I had expected from his rather unprepossessing appearance. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Behind this party came the complainant, an elderly native, whose puckered and wrinkled face was about as unprepossessing as the other's was pleasing. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z The scene in the glen, the image of the unprepossessing and mysterious pythoness, and the substance and manner of the sinister warning she communicated, were indeed fixed in her memory ineffaceably. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Were it not for the unprepossessing appearance of the latter, his flesh would be esteemed before most wild meat. 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 Of the several applicants the best was an unprepossessing, hump-backed girl. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Several candidates for the ducal crown presented themselves, and the unprepossessing duchess found herself beset with suitors, eager to strengthen their claims by securing her hand. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z At one end of the picture Mr. Lincoln is receiving with great warmth and cordiality Miss Dinah Arabella Aramintha Squash, a negress of unprepossessing appearance, who has as her escort Henry Ward Beecher. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Coming directly opposite the residence, he paused in the doorway of a delicatessen store and looked across the street, scrutinizing the gloomy and unprepossessing dwelling with an interest for which he could not account. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z With the grubby thumb of his other hand he rubbed his chin, giving to his unprepossessing features a lopsided appearance. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z She was by no means unprepossessing in face, and was trimly built, and dressed rather stylishly, compared to the others of her sex aboard the boat. No title 2011-08-23T02:00:29.833Z The Margrave was not handsome, in fact, his appearance was distinctly unprepossessing. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z On better acquaintance this unprepossessing exterior seemed, however, to melt away, and her inordinate self-esteem to be lost in the depth and universality of her sympathy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z The reporter of the Red Cap arrived, an unprepossessing individual, not quite sober and only half awake. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Then her head came down again, and Mrs. Bindle saw that the grim lips were parted, displaying some very yellow, unprepossessing teeth. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z I convinced him that, in spite of my unprepossessing appearance, he was safe in sheltering me. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Small, shrewd brown eyes, which had a trick of half closing, high cheek bones, a rather retroussé nose and a large, loose-lipped mouth completed an outer personality that Marjorie found unprepossessing in the extreme. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z They all moved forward to meet a gaunt, tired-looking woman, with a sallow, faded complexion and a nervous manner; but her brilliant, clear brown eyes offset her unprepossessing appearance. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z A stern regard to truth compels me reluctantly to remark that we were unprepossessing looking rather than otherwise. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z After all, these people, though unprepossessing, had treated him with a certain rough hospitality. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z He simply went indoors, and sitting distastefully to an unprepossessing supper, let Sara say her say upon the subject of Lloyd: it was an extensive and a justifiable recrimination. A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2011-06-08T02:00:18.910Z With this unprepossessing appearance, his manner was cordial and engaging, his tones agreeable, and when warmed up in conversation, his features were radiant with thought and genius. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z And he—at the dictates of "Kultur"—was to-morrow at 6.35 going to expose himself to the risk of death, in order to wrest from the Hun a small portion of unprepossessing ground. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z At the sting of it, a tremor ran through him, while cowardice, his besetting quality, long covered by growl and egotism in his strength and hideousness to terrify, alone shone from his unprepossessing yellow features. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z He hastened thither, and, though unprepossessing, from his thin voice, short pantaloons, lack of stockings, and worn hat, he was hired on trial. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z After being knocked out in a five-game first round, their postlockout playoff record remains unprepossessing: two series won and five series lost. Analysis: Rangers Assess a Season to Grow On 2011-04-25T00:31:53Z The rent, at $2,600 per month, was within their price range and cheaper than what was being asked for many of the unprepossessing places they had seen. Hey, Short- Timer, Park It Here 2011-04-16T07:01:09Z You will at the same time come to a spot of unprepossessing aspect, whose chief claim to notoriety lies in its shell-holes and broken-down houses. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z He appeared to be the youngest of the party, and was very reserved and unprepossessing in his aspect, and seemed to know me, but I could not recollect of ever having seen him before. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z After stopping at the post office, Arthur drove down a little side street to a weather-beaten, unprepossessing building which bore the word “Restaurant” painted in dim white letters upon its one window. Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch 2011-04-14T02:00:48.280Z One gloomy afternoon Jimmy stood outside an employment bureau among a group of shabbily dressed, dejected men, some of whom were of distinctly unprepossessing appearance. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Two very unprepossessing figures, costumed as savages, sat in this frail bark, paddle in hand, and to all seeming resolutely intent on their purpose of evasion. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z We were very seldom interrupted by visitors: almost the only one was that unknown and unprepossessing friend of Russell's who has been mentioned before—his own contradictory in almost every respect. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z If Cordova at first sight is so unprepossessing, a better acquaintance is hardly calculated to produce a more favorable impression upon the stranger. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z At last one was accepted, and a tutor arrived, who was—well, I will not describe him further than as certainly the most unprepossessing of human beings: Nature had been so terribly hard upon him. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Pacing up and down the hut with a kind of stealthy cat-like pace, was an individual, whose unprepossessing exterior was in good keeping with the wretched appearance of this Texan shebeen house. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z In spite of Jake's unprepossessing appearance and boastful language there was something appealing about him. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z This man was of severe and unprepossessing appearance, of medium height, thick-set, and with overhanging brows. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z We were very seldom interrupted by visitors: almost the only one was that unknown and unprepossessing friend of Russell’s who has been mentioned before—his own contradictory in almost every respect. Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z She moaned and turned restlessly on her pillow, and opened a pair of large, wild eyes, and fixed them on the unprepossessing face bending over her. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z Mr Smigel rated the task of turning this unprepossessing bunch of blocks into a mushroom cloud as a six on the scale of difficulty. Atomic bomb art 2011-03-01T04:08:52Z The town of Adana is of very unprepossessing aspect; its houses being very inferior, both in appearance and dimensions, to those of Tersous. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z The intruder was, it is true, wanting in breeding, and of most unprepossessing appearance; moreover, it soon became evident that he had neither mind nor character to recommend him. Under a Charm, Vol. I (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.700Z The children have all the frowning and unprepossessing look of their parents. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Some of these countenances are ugly and unprepossessing; but in others the finest European features occur! Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race 2011-02-06T03:00:56.253Z Quite apart from the reality that Massey would surely fail to give two such, frankly, unprepossessing males a second glance, you wonder how the 33-year-old Burton can be so thoroughly unreconstructed. Sky Sports: the perfect TV set for the boors who will be boors 2011-01-27T08:00:05Z Though unprepossessing, low-browed, and surly looking, he was evidently a stout fellow, and accustomed to work. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z The picture she still bore fresh in mind of the boy at the age of ten was unprepossessing enough, and the accounts she heard of the youth coincided but too well with it. Under a Charm, Vol. I (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.700Z The exterior, sheathed in what Ms. Robinson described as “hideous tar shingles,” is decidedly unprepossessing. | Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Room to Feed 20 or Play With 2 2011-01-15T00:04:57Z He was a man of an unprepossessing, not to say criminal, type, and spoke in a surly tone. The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story 2011-01-15T03:00:37.173Z The face was not an unprepossessing one, albeit a trifle too thin and lank and bilious to be altogether pleasant. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z How different it had been in the old days when Anthony was only an awkward, shabby, obscure boy and Sylvia the plainest and most unprepossessing of the Sunrise Hill Camp Fire girls! The Camp Fire Girls in After Years 2011-01-13T03:01:12.303Z The experts are definitely getting closer: the last few decades have produced an explosion of new techniques for probing the blobby, unprepossessing brain in search of the thinking, feeling, suffering, scheming mind. An Odyssey Through the Brain, Illuminated by a Rainbow 2010-12-01T16:26:00Z Visit a function in Sri Lanka at which Murali is present and the unprepossessing elderly man in the corner will probably be Murali's dad. Murali's turn to make history again by reaching 800 Test wickets 2010-07-17T08:00:00Z When he scored last night, after 34 minutes, it was with an even more unprepossessing effort. Chelsea contingent make absence felt in disjointed England display 2010-05-24T23:06:00Z Handsome wide-slatted window blinds block an unprepossessing view just enough to let colors, not shapes, from a commercial street peep through. | Hartsdale: Caff? Azzurri Offers a New Take on Surf and Turf 2010-05-01T00:35:00Z A shaky start As landmarks in history go, the clip of an anorak-wearing geek standing in San Diego zoo is pretty unprepossessing. YouTube: five years on 2010-04-22T23:05:00Z Away from Goa's famous beaches, the trial in the Scarlett Keeling case is taking place in an unprepossessing building in the state capital Panaji. Goa justice 2010-03-19T16:21:00Z Though plain, however, he was not unprepossessing; for good-nature was expressed in every line of his countenance, and his smile was kindness itself. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas Originally the old farmhouse was in a most unprepossessing condition. Remodeled Farmhouses Then almost instantly his unprepossessing manner changed and his face broke into a smile which was singularly charming. The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas Although the only survivor of several children, his father, who bore the unprepossessing nickname of "Black Mike," hardly ever noticed him, unless it was to swear at him or cuff him. Terry's Trials and Triumphs She is a most fascinating woman, and you, if you will permit me to tell you so to your face, are—what shall we say?—well, far from being an unprepossessing man. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance Despite the first unprepossessing rigidity of outline, there was somehow a sprightly air, something endearing, in the stiff, purposed stride, the alert, inquiring ears, the stern and watchful eye. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus And now, at something after seven o'clock, he saw this unprepossessing ally approach the window at which he stood brooding. A Traitor's Wooing Blake gazed upon the unprepossessing features of his subordinate, and tugging a cigar from his pocket, handed it to him. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall Over the unprepossessing features of Bindle there came a vacant look, and over those of the Professor one of triumph. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle On the last step at the entrance was an idol in a squatting position, sitting close to the ground, in human form, but with a very unprepossessing countenance. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. His looks were unprepossessing, and one of his legs was shorter than the other. An Outline of Russian Literature He was an unprepossessing looking man, lean, and of middle height, with a cold, cruel countenance. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising He had gained the “neck” where the waggon road crossed it, and beneath lay the unprepossessing little township. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance "You're too late, ole sport," he remarked, as he sympathetically surveyed the unprepossessing features of his companion, where freckles rioted with spots in happy abandon. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle And then he recognised the familiar, if unprepossessing lineaments of his defaulting retainer—old Dirk. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt He seemed by no means pleased with his errand, and preceded me with a very unprepossessing scowl upon his face. Tales of South Africa She looked unprepossessingly like a civilized woman, except a good deal fatter in places, which hardly helped matters from an abstract point of view. Fair and Warmer Their rough and unkempt appearance, which was due to the nature of their places of concealment, added to their unprepossessing personalities, disgusted the Lord with them. Women of England The volume then, is bound misleadingly, and those who see naught but its unprepossessing exterior gain no inkling of its charming hidden chapters. 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 And here was an unprepossessing person offering them, at a comparatively reasonable rate, a remarkable consignment of material. Command In due course he looked in my direction, looked again with attention, and I saw recognition come into his unprepossessing features. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Japan, ancient as she is, has her Ainos of unrecorded antiquity, and the ranges of Central India are haunted by races still more primitive and unprepossessing in manners and physiognomy. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. In this alert, unprepossessing yet kindly face we can read a not too fanciful history of the temperament of the sitter. Artists Past and Present Random Studies I must have been a rather ludicrous and unprepossessing figure of a man, and possibly it was the very obvious scars of battle on my disfigured countenance that first told him my identity. The Portal of Dreams We have a keener and more democratic eye for the good in the most unprepossessing of our fellow creatures. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance A window, of very unclean and unprepossessing aspect, was partly shaded by a faded scarlet curtain, while the floor was equally sparingly decked with a small and ragged carpet. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I Mr. Fairfield, however, struck him as being the altogether unprepossessing possessor of an altogether distinguished psychosis. You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did The old Doctor has by no means so many customers as many of his female rivals; he is old and unprepossessing—were he young and handsome the case might be otherwise. The Witches of New York The family, though disappointed, remained hopeful, and the years passed peacefully on, bringing a few sons-in-law in their train, and innumerable boxes of sweets to the unprepossessing Andromeda. Modern marriage and how to bear it The rear door of the cottage opened, and a young man appeared, a distinctly unprepossessing young 198 man, whose shabby clothing somehow suggested a corresponding shabbiness of soul. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted On inspection she proves to be a girl of nineteen, decidedly unprepossessing in appearance,—in fact, as Mr. Murphy, the butler, says to Mrs. Collins, the housekeeper, "as ugly as if she was bespoke." Rossmoyne When Burke returned he found his garage in charge of an unwashed, unkempt, unprepossessing young ruffian whom he stared at for a full minute before he accepted him as the man he had left there. The Girl in the Mirror I caught a glimpse of an unprepossessing countenance—despite rather good features and fine hair—the most striking characteristics of which were a missing front tooth and lips that hung loose and colorless. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself Our unprepossessing appearance was no doubt a sufficient excuse for this precaution. Across Asia on a Bicycle Their one-room, unpainted house is one of a dozen unprepossessing structures bordering an alleyway leading off Pine Street. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 They were at once introduced to the second mate, and Miss Arminster thought she had seldom seen a more unprepossessing individual. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts They are extraordinarily unprepossessing, most of them, for the time was not yet when sea-going was considered, save as a last resource, like selling newspapers or going to America. An Ocean Tramp It was a sordid and unprepossessing exterior; Martin felt that the Black Cruiser would prove the anti-climax to his evening's adventures. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Orangine and Roussette slept but little so that in the morning they were still uglier and more unprepossessing than they had appeared the day before. Old French Fairy Tales This is certainly a vivid and forceful description of even a wholly unprepossessing shrine. The Cathedrals of Northern France On their heads they wore close-fitting helmets, apparently equipped with visors which could be drawn down to cover their unprepossessing features. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 These companions were quite as unprepossessing in their appearance as himself. Among the Brigands He left them then and went out, a bit unsteady, seedy, unprepossessing, but carrying under his dilapidated exterior some remains of the man he had been. Louisiana Lou A Western Story Beneath an unprepossessing exterior she has a heart of gold. The Belovéd Vagabond For Paul gives a strange description of the Christian life, and the color and characteristics with which he exhibits it render it decidedly unprepossessing. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost It was neither a palace nor a glorified villa, but just a substantial house, with an unprepossessing exterior, and all the marvels of modern luxury within. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker The beds were father unprepossessing, and consequently they had all retired without altogether undressing themselves; but in spite of this comparative discomfort they soon fell asleep. Among the Brigands Francis was very plain and unprepossessing in countenance, and shy and awkward in his manners. Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History I wondered how so unprepossessing a person could be admitted into a refined assembly, but I learned later that she was Lady Molyneux, one of the Great Personages of the county. The Belovéd Vagabond The inferior classes go about almost naked and live in long, unprepossessing structures, one story high, divided into single rooms, rude and uncleanly. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Turning hastily, he saw almost at his heels a bear of the most unprepossessing aspect. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt He had seen so many of these unprepossessing English waiting-women that he understood the state of her feelings as by instinct. Theo A Sprightly Love Story She was very plain in person, and unprepossessing in manners. Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History "The entrance to my mountain eyrie is narrow and unprepossessing, but I promise you that you shall find comfort within." Bandit Love Having made myself somewhat presentable upon leaving the steerage of the steamer, my trunk on a dray, I proceeded to an unprepossessing hotel kept by a colored man on Kearny street. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Unthinking observers stigmatised her face as harsh and unprepossessing; but it was softened and illumined by a glow of genuine welcome as she greeted Honor Meredith. Captain Desmond, V.C. It must be noted that however unprepossessing his personality he wears an untarnished badge for bravery and faithful service as a scout. The Vanishing Race Though he was small in stature, and very unprepossessing in appearance and manners, Francis still evinced in his government a considerable degree of good judgment and of energy. Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History He looked helplessly toward Amy, but she was disappearing indoors, too eager to be with her parents to loiter with this unprepossessing guest. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life I found in it people of all descriptions—several of a most unprepossessing appearance, and others really like gentlemen. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. He was a tall man, of strong frame, and an unprepossessing countenance appropriate enough to his character and reputation. The Tin Box and What it Contained These Quelpartians, on the contrary, are very unprepossessing in their appearance, rude and boisterous in their manner, and of very gross habits. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery He spoke now in a gruff, unprepossessing voice; "I'd enough sight rather go to California." The Chautauqua Girls At Home She drew up a chamois-skin bag, of an unprepossessing mouse colour, and emptied out a roll of bills. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern To his astonishment Mère Maxim was by no means so unprepossessing as he had imagined. Werwolves She was not a comely craft; her sides were weather-beaten, and her general appearance homely and unprepossessing; but the same waters that bore the others bore her. A Pirate of Parts Dr Leichhardt favours us with a portrait of the pair, and notwithstanding the embellishments of clean frocks, flowing neck-kerchiefs, and a comb, we have seldom set eyes upon more unprepossessing countenances. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. They hire a particular junk for a certain date, and at the appointed hour the party assembles there, being received by two or three unprepossessing servants. Life and sport in China Second Edition "Right there, by the window," the witness answered, with a smug smile which gave him a still more unprepossessing look. No Clue A Mystery Story I looked as rough and unprepossessing that day as she ever saw me afterwards. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings This man was of a desperate and unprepossessing appearance, and a bulge under his coat suggested the possible presence of a weapon. The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery He seized him by the shoulders and turned him about so that he had an excellent view of his unprepossessing back. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Before him stood a blowsy but not altogether unprepossessing woman of middle years. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Their hair is coarse, thick, and bushy, covered with ochre, down, and all the filth accumulated by time and neglect, and adds not a little to their unprepossessing appearance. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century But McHale's face, though weary and lined with pain, and, moreover, rendered decidedly unprepossessing by a growth of stubble, contained no signs of disaster. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters She longed to know something definite of them—to get a little nearer to their unprepossessing life. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 He had a massive head, however, in which intellect predominated, and his thoroughly polished manners went far to counteract the effect of one of the most unprepossessing countenances I ever saw. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland As far as we could distinguish through the rapidly-increasing gloom, he was a middle-aged man, bony and long-legged, with a sallow unprepossessing physiognomy surmounting his long ungainly carcass, and metal buttons upon his coat. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Pacing up and down the hut with a kind of stealthy cat-like pace, was an individual, whose unprepossessing exterior was in good keeping with the wretched appearance of this Texian shebeen house. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Scarce a man of them whose countenance is not in some way unprepossessing—either naturally of sinister cast, or brought to it by a career of sinful dissipation. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Certainly, they were externally a very peculiar and unprepossessing people. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life There was a little chuckle of laughter from the group, and Zeiglemann glowered at the speaker, a tall, unprepossessing youth whose face was red with excitement. Tam o' the Scoots So the eyes of the two met, and Joan saw a worn, kindly face, endowed with a quiet charm of expression and delicacy of contour that offered a marked contrast to the man's unprepossessing features. A Son of the Immortals Immensely poor and unprepossessing to a painful degree, but a very clever scientist. The Green Rust Many of them—indeed nearly all—are not only unprepossessing, but positively forbidding; and the young girls, not desiring to encounter certain glances, sent towards them, with an impudent effrontery, turn their eyes away. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea This last remark of Sagasta’s did not seem to meet with much favor from Chris and the mulatto, but they were prudently silent, for the Spaniard was obviously the master-spirit of the unprepossessing gang. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Behind her unprepossessing exterior Miss Susan had a warm, sympathetic heart filled to the brim with kindly affection for her pretty niece. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 Virginia was at work preparing their simple evening meal; Harold was stretched on her own cot, the curtain drawn back, his arms under his head, his unshaven face curiously dark and unprepossessing. The Snowshoe Trail The stranger carried himself with a certain jauntiness, and he had need of what assistance artifice could lend him, for he was singularly unprepossessing. The Green Rust She was a young woman, perhaps thirty years of age, and not unprepossessing in appearance, in spite of her modest uniform. Mary Louise Solves a Mystery It was as unprepossessing within as it was outside. Land of the Burnt Thigh He was, the shepherd says, the best dog he ever saw, in spite of his surly manners and unprepossessing appearance. A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals He threw it wide open; Virginia's startled glance could just make out two swarthy faces, singularly dark and unprepossessing, in the candlelight. The Snowshoe Trail The cold drive having reddened his ears and lent a touch of blue to his nose, his appearance this morning was more than usually unprepossessing. Shining Ferry My liking for her began while she was trying to tell me of the night she spent by the girl’s bedside, the night before her departure with her unprepossessing relative. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Notwithstanding the unprepossessing appearance of the shore, we thankfully hurried into the boat. In the Wilds of Africa Not a handsome face at its dull best, it was doubly unprepossessing then, as, pale and breathless, he passed the stern form in the doorway, his nervous, reluctant eyes avoiding hers. One Day At Arle I looked at the man's bent face quite curiously, and, judging from its rather heavy but still not unprepossessing outline, I could not really call it a bad face, or even a sulky one. "Surly Tim" A Lancashire Story She slipped her arm through the harness and started towards the shed, Mullendore following with his slouching walk, an unprepossessing figure in his faded overalls, black and white mackinaw coat and woolen cap. The Fighting Shepherdess He looked unprepossessing even at a distance and he did not improve, as he came closer. The Dude Wrangler His disheveled hair and burning eyes gave an unprepossessing touch to the picture. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Clarice thought that the priest who sat between the Earl and Countess was a far more unprepossessing individual than his master. A Forgotten Hero Not for Him "Yes, and her mother, if the older woman be such, is not at all unprepossessing." Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers As for Renée, if her face was homely and unprepossessing, her intellect was vigorous. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 The tree is crooked and very unprepossessing looking, and stands in the woods where it has a very poor chance. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 Indeed, the groogroo worm is by no means more repulsive in appearance than any of the other unprepossessing creatures which are so highly prized. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 Nevertheless, no fair-minded person will dispute that there are qualities or predispositions, for which—hideous as they may be—we are no more responsible than we are for being born with an unprepossessing face. The Essentials of Spirituality She would no doubt prove an excellent manager, and she was so unprepossessing in every way, she would be unlikely to be appropriated by any widowed missionary. Hubert's Wife A Story for You When he was admitted to the hospital he was nearly sixty years of age; his hair was black and grey mixed, his complexion very dark, and his countenance fierce and unprepossessing. Poor Jack Their chief, before whom we were brought, was a tall man, of rather lighter complexion than the rest, but with countenance not less hideous and sinister than those of his remarkably unprepossessing followers. Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures They all wore huge moustaches and beards, with their long black hair either falling over their shoulders or fastened behind in a queue, while their countenances were decidedly unprepossessing. In New Granada Heroes and Patriots The inferiors were Mestizos, half Indian and half Spaniards by descent, with dark brown complexions and savage countenances—altogether gentlemen of a very unprepossessing appearance. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas There are few men upon whom kindness and gentleness will not make more or less impression; but our unprepossessing hero is of that unfavored few. Hubert's Wife A Story for You This, from their unprepossessing appearance, we were not well-disposed to do. In the Eastern Seas He was not a pleasant man to look upon, and even his voice was unprepossessing. A Voice in the Wilderness The stern gallery and rail were then gilded, as was also the figure-head—a wooden damsel, with arms akimbo, of the most unprepossessing appearance, representing the bride of the “pilot” whose name she bore. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes I don’t know how it was, but from the moment, I believe, I first cast eyes on his singularly unprepossessing face, Moses Reeks had been my special antipathy! Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy I heard a few low-murmured words from Dumaresq, followed by a reply from the unprepossessing unknown, and then I fell into a delightfully refreshing, dreamless slumber. The Log of a Privateersman They were as unprepossessing a lot of specimens of female humanity as could well be imagined. The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Smooth and insidious where he wished to please, his first appearance to strangers was always unprepossessing; and few persons on their first introduction had any great desire to extend their acquaintance. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I Out of the age of ornamentation nothing can be more untidy or more unprepossessing than the appearance of the Oraon. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala A book headed by a man's name unmodified and uncommented upon—such as 'Horace Chase'—is apt to have a dreary, unprepossessing air, unless the name is an incisive one that suggests an interesting personality. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story As for you, sir, your appearance is so unprepossessing that I am unable to remain any longer. The Lunatic at Large He sticks very close to me, for the reason, possibly, that I do not kick him, and say "Get out," as most persons are tempted to do when they look upon his most unprepossessing visage. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer Trust me, your unprepossessing Dam soon settles those affairs! Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses But his slender purse grew daily more attenuated, and he soon found himself in a truly desperate situation, a friendless, unprepossessing young man, knowing no trade or profession, and without an acquaintance in the city. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money Curtis turned, and looked into the singularly unprepossessing face of a swarthy foreigner, a powerfully-built, ungainly person of about his own age. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York In the library at Utrecht there are ten quarto volumes containing reviews of this book, in which Bekker's personal appearance, said to have been very unprepossessing, receives a goodly portion of the censure. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology His personal appearance was unprepossessing, almost approaching to deformity,—a circumstance which may explain the ultimate hesitation of Miss Wilson to accept his hand. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The priests of the civilized nations adopted various modes of dress to typify the divinity which they served, and their appearance was often in the highest degree unprepossessing. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America In spite of the rather unprepossessing appearance of the youth the girls were glad to see him. The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South The place looked unprepossessingly new and French, and obtrusively military; dismal, too, in the dusty sand which a wailing wind blew through the streets; but scarcely a Frenchman was to be seen, except the soldiers. The Golden Silence Two or three times she paused, undecided, before an open door; then, thinking perhaps that the writer was either too young or unprepossessing, she slowly resumed her search. A Cardinal Sin Mr. Pearson, although he might have been taken as a model of honesty, truthfulness, and straightforwardness, was a phlegmatic, heavy man, and his manners were, to say the least, unprepossessing. Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men Afterward you get accustomed to an unprepossessing face, and forget what you first thought of it. The Mayor of Warwick Mrs. Finn's house was a great unprepossessing building, washed and dried by the rain and sun into a dark, dingy colour, the only one that had ever supplanted the original hue of the freshsawn boards. Queechy, Volume I Simmy was surprised to find that his cheeks, though sunken and haggard, were cleanly shaved, and his general appearance far from unprepossessing. From the Housetops But he could, and the first thing Bully and Bawly knew, that most unprepossessing creature, with a smile that went away around to his ears, was close behind them and gnashing his teeth at them. Bully and Bawly No-Tail Altogether his appearance was remarkably unprepossessing and commonplace. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 If we strike the time well, you may witness the Koshare at their pranks, and in their full, very unprepossessing ceremonial toggery. The Delight Makers When once he had obtained a fair "start" on his circuit, he quickly overcame the disadvantages of a person and manner which one might characterise more strongly than as unprepossessing. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 To tell the truth they wear an impoverished look, and are singularly unprepossessing. Leaves from a Field Note-Book Their house, their lands were unprepossessing in appearance. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales He was not unprepossessing in a bold, daring way; a fellow who would seek adventure, and meet danger with a laugh. The Strange Case of Cavendish A tallish, lean man of a particularly unprepossessing appearance was leaning over him with an air of immense solicitude. None Other Gods His personal appearance was, it must be candidly owned, certainly insignificant and unprepossessing. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Slowly he turned to the dock, looking up and down its orderly but unprepossessing clutter. The Stolen Singer He was slender, tall, and unprepossessing, and instantly created a bad impression. The Trail Horde The garden side of the old house was covered with a mantle of ivy, and, altogether, the surroundings were such as to make ample amends for the rather unprepossessing conditions within. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland It was an unprepossessing door, outwardly labeled, "ladies' entrance." Destiny Mr. Bomford, without his motoring outfit, was still an unprepossessing figure. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton He dislikes Bruce, of course; but he would just as soon think of objecting to a partner at whist as to a son-in-law because he happened to be unprepossessing. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' As he walked along he was joined by others of an equally unprepossessing appearance, and found many more already assembled at the scene of their labours—the new harbour. Adventures of a Sixpence in Guernsey by A Native We encountered many steep hills and passed villages nearly as unprepossessing as the first one before we came to the main Plymouth-Exeter road, as excellent a highway as one could wish. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland He was a dark, rather clumsy, but not unprepossessing young don, with a very slight squint. The Disentanglers In personal appearance, he was unprepossessing; but his private character was without a blemish. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Two blocks beyond, after the I. Townsend Burden house, and the Warburg house, and the Willard D. Straight house have been passed, we are once more in the region of unprepossessing chaos. Fifth Avenue She would certainly insist on having a voice in the matter, and her choice was not likely at any time to fall upon the worthy but unprepossessing Jacob. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot It was as unprepossessing a place for a home as ever was chosen by a man of education or position; and Mr. Hayne was possessed of both. The Deserter I cannot understand the bad taste of choosing him, when there were frati and priests enough of expression less unprepossessing. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe The latter formed by far the most knavish-looking and unprepossessing portion of the assemblage. Jack Sheppard A Romance The groom, many years the bride's senior, and of strikingly unprepossessing appearance, was a Cuban of great wealth. Fifth Avenue The master, an unprepossessing but exceedingly polite child of the �gean, was overwhelmed at the prospect of carrying a British Naval Commander as passenger. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 But he was curious to know why Contarini kept such a singularly unprepossessing servant, and why, if he chose to keep him, he made use of him to deliver invitations. Marietta A Maid of Venice Monsieur Ballanche's face had been frightfully disfigured by an operation, and though his friends thought that his fine eyes and expression redeemed his appearance, he was, to strangers, particularly unprepossessing. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Small wonder she had been indignant when he, the Maccabee, in the spirit of mischief, had laid a wife to Julian's door and had described her as most unprepossessing. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem I wondered, heartsick, if I had ever seen a more hopelessly unprepossessing creature. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man He was not bad-looking, though his face was unprepossessing to a judge of character. The Claverings He, the colonel, had despised and shunned the awkward and unprepossessing boy; but the boy and Bat used to be great friends. Verner's Pride The women are untidy and unprepossessing, and the children have not yet learned to appreciate stockings and shoes. The Boer in Peace and War It was bad enough to be pictured thus unprepossessing, but to be suddenly made aware of her husband in a man whom she feared, was desperate. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem "And you be Miss Dorothy, I suspect," he went on with a most unprepossessing leer. Heiress of Haddon Standing before him with a piece of tawdry gauze about her quite unprepossessing form stood the over aged dancer with a set simper upon her silly vacant face. Desert Love Mr. Barker was not exactly unprepossessing; he was certainly not handsome, but there was a look of action about him that was not unpleasing. Doctor Claudius, A True Story An attack of the small-pox while he was a boy marked his face, and he was to most persons an unprepossessing child. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Roberta gave another look at the surly, unprepossessing countenance, then said, in a low voice: "I will, Mamma, if you will let me hide my face in your lap while I am saying it." That Old-Time Child, Roberta Well, for a good likeness, I cannot say I ever saw anything more unprepossessing. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood The first was a handsomely mounted crayon drawing, representing a remarkably ugly young man with heavy features and a most unprepossessing expression of countenance. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He thought nothing of first impressions, and was prepared to offer a hearty welcome to any friend of his uncle, even of the most unprepossessing type. Doctor Claudius, A True Story Rude and unprepossessing to others, she was sincerely loved by her husband, and deeply lamented when she died. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction It looks grey and unattractive, and unfortunately the unprepossessing but valuable outer coat is polished away. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People However, he realized there was a good deal on the negative side of the scale, and he weighed his disqualifications honestly; though he depreciated the importance of his unprepossessing appearance. Certain Success An hour and a half later one of the somewhat unprepossessing set of domestics attached to the Mansion Hotel, Cheynemouth, undertook to deliver Mr. Lawrence Cardiff's card to Miss Bell. A Daughter of To-Day They are lazy in disposition, for the most part of unprepossessing appearance, and their country has the Kafue River on the east, and the Zambesi on the south, as natural boundaries. South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time Every evening is spent in cleaning guns, rummaging for unprepossessing treasures of shooting and fishing equipment. Etiquette From roof to floor the particular apartment in which he sat was lined with bookshelves filled with unprepossessing volumes and large black tin boxes. The Necromancers If I am unprepossessing, it is because I am as God made me and I cannot help it. The Touchstone of Fortune When he was admitted to the hospital he was nearly sixty years of age; his hair was black and gray mixed, his complexion very dark, and his countenance fierce and unprepossessing. Poor Jack Such was Ricks Wilson, the most unprepossessing soul on board the good ship America. Sandy Older ladies who are always dragging young men up to unprepossessing partners, are studiously avoided and with reason; but otherwise it is inexcusable for any youth to fail in this small exaction of polite behavior. Etiquette His form and manner were indeed very odd, and we thought him the most unprepossessing public man we had ever met. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him "You may bask to your heart's content," retorted Frances, laughing, "but you must know that it does not please the sun to be stopped by an unprepossessing stranger." The Touchstone of Fortune Seeing she does not immediately fall upon his father's neck, Telemachus hotly reproaches her, but she rejoins she must have some proof of the stranger's identity and is evidently repelled by his unprepossessing appearance. The Book of the Epic The prophet's financial agent was of so unprepossessing appearance that we declined investing. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life They are the most unprepossessing humans I have seen the whole world round. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama When Lincoln began, they say, he seemed awkward, homely, unprepossessing. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him A later Rabbi, Zeira, was equally noted for his feeble, unprepossessing figure and his nimble, ingenious mind. Chapters on Jewish Literature "His face is very unprepossessing, and I shall be very much surprised if there is a noble soul concealed under such a repulsive exterior." Ticket No. "9672" He had also spoken of the attributes of Kali, and, after a little further search, I discovered that Kali was Siva's wife—a most unprepossessing and fiendish female. The Gloved Hand An otherwise absolutely unprepossessing face was rendered most attractive by a pair of twinkling, humorous blue eyes, set far apart. The Rules of the Game Somehow, in a subtle way, it seemed to accent all of Mrs. Hilmer's unprepossessing features. Broken to the Plow A few locks of long hair in patches on his skull, blown by the wind, completed a worthy frame for this most unprepossessing head. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm A more miserably clad, wretchedly provided, and unprepossessing military host, probably never entered a civilized city. What I Saw in California His aspect was rather insignificant and quite unprepossessing. Famous Americans of Recent Times Brigham, though the best buffalo horse in the West, was decidedly unprepossessing in appearance. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) Among the guests was one Captain the Hon. William Henry Cranstoun, a soldier and a Scot, whose appearance, according to a diurnal writer, was unprepossessing. Trial of Mary Blandy Hilde, wishing to know what kind of a man her suitor was, begged Herbart to draw his portrait; but finding him unprepossessing, she encouraged Herbart to declare his own love, and soon eloped with him. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art Something in this person's manner, and in the meaning glance he fixed upon her attracted her attention; otherwise, he was a man of singularly unprepossessing appearance. The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance "I beg your pardon, sir," began the gardener rather angrily, as he looked at Mozart's unprepossessing clothing, "I do not know whom I have the honor—" "Kapellmeister Mozart, of Vienna." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes In the crowning event of a tournament he easily outdistanced all entries in a four-mile race to Wyandotte, winning $250 for his owner, who had been laughed at for entering such an unprepossessing animal. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) In general appearance the place is not unprepossessing. Somerset His exterior was unprepossessing, and I was in a state of mind that rendered me easily receptive of an unfavourable impression. The Mystery of 31 New Inn The lower classes of females in Bombay are the most unprepossessing people I ever saw. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay This emotion was due not so much to the unprepossessing appearance of the prisoner as to the enormity of his offence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. As a preacher he was unprepossessing in appearance, being sickly and hunchbacked, but his simplicity of manner, and his clear, earnest style endeared him to many thousands. The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason "She certainly is an unprepossessing child," murmured Miss Maria, "but don't you think, under the circumstances, that we ought to ask her to pay us a visit?" Ethel Morton's Enterprise "Why, no--not to look at: her nature is beautiful, but her manner and figure are rather--rather unprepossessing at first." Not Pretty, but Precious Yet, is not even his every-day clothing unseemly, or his aspect unprepossessing. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 You know exquisite moths and butterflies evolve in the canyons from very unprepossessing and lowly living worms. Her Father's Daughter He was a youth of about eighteen years, decidedly unprepossessing in dress and rather uncouth in manner. Edison, His Life and Inventions It's extraordinary what unprepossessing people one can love if one gives one's mind to it. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan Paul, however, did not care to intrust the shirt to a stranger of so unprepossessing an appearance. Paul the Peddler, or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant In his volume there were several pictures of Sands in various oriental costumes; and he travelled about with a black attendant of most unprepossessing appearance, just like another Brian de Bois Guilbert. Vanity Fair The unprepossessing wardrobe she had gathered in the passing years was remade again and again by the village dressmaker. The Shuttle It was no crime to be fond of dumb animals, not even of one so inordinately unprepossessing; and you allowed for eccentricities, in any event, in dealing with a poet. The Certain Hour His awkward and unprepossessing appearance conceals an exquisite soul. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings It chanced that he had that very morning encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras d'Asse and—I have forgotten the name. Les Misérables She had already become jealous of Lionel's preference, and it was too galling to find the affection of her children stolen from her by that cold, pale, proud, unprepossessing girl. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World His unprepossessing face looked as if he pulled his childishness together with an unchildish effort. The Shuttle A grim and forbidding countenance may conceal a warm heart, even as the unprepossessing "Punch-Bowl" contained a cosy and comfortable parlour. The Brown Mask She waited five minutes inspecting her unprepossessing competitors—then she walked briskly out into the farthest recesses of Central Park and remained so long that she caught a cold. The Beautiful and Damned The same general report which speaks of his countenance as unprepossessing, describes his talents as being of the first order. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier The place seemed to be a sort of private hotel, unostentatious and unprepossessing. An Amiable Charlatan She was an unprepossessing little girl, affected, cold, selfish, foolish. Twilight in Italy And yet the sluggish little place, so unprepossessing in all material ways, was already beginning to assert that claim to glory which has since been conceded to it by all the world. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller He glanced at Gloria as though expecting moral support, but she had turned back to her contemplation of the dubious and unprepossessing out-of-doors. The Beautiful and Damned She looked like a caricature of her unprepossessing self. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life One of these unseen observers, a gentleman, was youthful, and had an air of high breeding and refinement, and a face marked with intellect, though otherwise of unprepossessing aspect. Sylph Etherege (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") She was," he continues, "extremely unprepossessing in her person and appearance—more like a nun than anything, and never can have had the least pretension to beauty. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 He had looked upon her as a valuable text put at a disadvantage by an unprepossessing binding. With the Procession But like many things of plain exterior this unprepossessing instrument had something in it, something that the Italian gentleman knew how to extract, and all the ship was hushed into listening. From One Generation to Another The other was an Irishman by birth, prematurely aged, of diminutive stature, and unprepossessing appearance. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Treason was now rampant, and it would not be difficult, in looking around upon the most unprepossessing groups, and to hear the language, to fancy one's-self in Charleston, or some other nest of treason. The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details She liked Mr. Candish, although she did not hesitate to jest at his unpolished manners and rather unprepossessing person, and it was inevitable that she should be unable to appreciate his self-denying devotion. The Puritans Every word she utters has an accompanying look thrown either to the short-sighted full- complexioned eldest daughter or to the slim, unprepossessing younger one, seeking approval from their responsive glances. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense His features were plain, his turn of mind caustic, his feelings ambitious and avaricious, his temper uncomplying, and his whole appearance singular and unprepossessing. Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette The fellow known as Dock Bemis, an unprepossessing, shabbily dressed man of thirty-five, with a mean face and an ugly-looking eye, came forward. The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand And it leads through an industrial region that is mighty unprepossessing—little beauty until almost the end. Bertram Cope's Year Fret Offut arose from his unwelcome bath, dripping from head to foot with the nasty mess, presenting a most unprepossessing appearance. Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America The inn was a large brick building at the corner of a street, with nothing very unprepossessing in its external appearance. The Englishwoman in America The figure of the Madonna—a modern and unprepossessing image—was carried aloft, surrounded by resplendent ecclesiastics and followed by a picturesque string of women bearing their votive offerings of candles, great and small. Old Calabria To lessen the impression from one unprepossessing in aspect, "some fixing up" was compulsory. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form It happened soon afterwards that, unable to procure a satisfactory passage to Majorca, Stanhope was constrained to embark upon a small vessel, the appearance of which was singularly unprepossessing. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 Squire Davenport turned sharply, and as his eye fell on the unprepossessing figure, he instinctively put his hand in the pocket in which he kept his wallet. The Store Boy If James Terry, the bookmaker, loud, florid, vulgar, was an unprepossessing individual, certainly George Higgins, who was still under the accusation of murder, was ten thousand times more so. The Old Man in the Corner Whenever she chose she could appear quite pleasant-looking, however unprepossessing might be her features. Fruitfulness He was short of stature and thin, with a sad drawn face and manners that even his staunch friend, Silas Watson, admitted were awkward and unprepossessing. Aunt Jane's Nieces "Look here," said the Philosopher, picking up and exhibiting a large hairy Caterpillar of very unprepossessing appearance. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales Never had he looked more unprepossessing or a less likely subject for sympathy, than when he stumbled into the chair set for him by the district attorney. The House of the Whispering Pines But if the outward life was on the whole unprepossessing, inward succulence was not lacking. Hawthorne and His Circle At the first glance it was evident that De Launay had reasonable cause for associating the mediaeval priestly torturer pictured in his early lesson-book with the unprepossessing personage now introduced. Temporal Power In personal appearance the race is not unprepossessing. First Footsteps in East Africa They are said to have thought it strange that Socrates was good, seeing he was so unprepossessing in appearance. General History for Colleges and High Schools The Kilauea is a screw boat of 400 tons, most unprepossessing in appearance, slow, but sure, and capable of bearing an infinite amount of battering. The Hawaiian Archipelago Three singularly unprepossessing Frisco toughs joined me in my cabin, which was none too large for a single person. The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition At any rate, he seemed to me a singularly unprepossessing youth. The Little Nugget The woman was somewhat rough and unprepossessing, it is true, and hence Maggie had conceived the prejudice against her; but she was kind-hearted and good, as the little girl learned later. Bessie Bradford's Prize One eye was draped by a cobweb, gained by diving into the closet's extreme corner after a missing slipper, gone for some weeks; and in other ways Alexia's face presented a very unprepossessing appearance. Five Little Peppers and their Friends A red handkerchief tied around his head under his hat, with the loose ends hanging from beneath, did not add much favor to his unprepossessing face. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Other letters rained in on my sister from the eccentric individual, and he sent her almost weekly fresh presentments of his unprepossessing exterior, but always in a bowing attitude. Here, There and Everywhere Lamb was very much attached to Martin, who was a sincere and able man, although with a very unprepossessing physiognomy. Charles Lamb The appearance of the place was unprepossessing enough to dampen even the ambitious courage of Pauline. The Perils of Pauline The other occupant of the room, who leaned carelessly against the mantelshelf, was taller and older; though he, too, was handsome, but with the somewhat cynical and unprepossessing handsomeness of a man of the world. What's Bred in the Bone And indeed a second man of equally unprepossessing exterior now appeared from behind a great rock leading a couple of heavily laden mules. In Kedar's Tents And no doubt his face and hands were dirty also, and his hair unkempt, and his aspect unprepossessing enough for an applicant for labor. Samuel the Seeker If not rude, he was sometimes, indeed generally, abrupt and unprepossessing in manner. Charles Lamb She was clever, but far from happy, and an unprepossessing exterior, which with the lapse of years grew more uninviting, did not tend to make her any happier. My Life — Volume 1 The expression of his unprepossessing features indicated what was passing in his mind, his mood was one of sullen rebellion. The Prodigal Judge He was a particularly unprepossessing man, with a reddish growth of whiskers which he never seemed to take the trouble to shave off, and they stuck out like so many bristles in a half-worn toothbrush. The Motor Girls That literary man, Longford, was a most unprepossessing looking object,—a friend of Roxmouth's too, which makes him all the more unpleasant. God's Good Man Never had Philip looked on a more unprepossessing face than that of the newcomer, in whose little black eyes there seemed to be a gloating triumph as he leered at the prisoner. Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police And yet despite his unprepossessing aspect there was no mistaking the fact that this unfortunate woman loved him—had always loved him; besides, he was her husband. Monsieur Lecoq |
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