| 单词 | unpresentable |
| 例句 | “But it’s not the reality of today. So me, I want to give that child the best. Is that unpresentable? Is that the monster? No, I’m not a monster.” Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Issue for Italy’s Hard Right 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z In response, Sanchez said Vox was using Tamames, former Communist and an anti-dictatorship activist, as "a decoy for its intolerable and unpresentable project". No-confidence motion seen as shot in the foot for Spain's right 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Erdogan’s aim seems to be to render Prince Mohammed unpresentable on the world stage. The Long Struggle for Supremacy in the Muslim World 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z If Mr. Trump isn’t crazy, unstable or irrational, then he’s merely unpresentable. Trump Runs Against Both Parties 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z If Reddit’s decorum is often unpresentable, its home page and community pages can be downright indecipherable to new visitors. New Reddit CEO to Users: We’re Cleaning This Place Up 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Cleaned up—scrubbed, the insoluble matted locks clipped from his coat, his trampish collar replaced with a new one bearing a license tag—he was far from being unpresentable. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z It resembled thus the heterogeneous furniture of his own mind, with an incongruous ingredient of superinduced religion; but, on the whole, unpresentable and unclean. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z In these ‘sewing-machines,’ as Hans calls them, one becomes unpresentable at once.” The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z Mother and son—those unpresentable features of a former occasion—now appeared as immaculate cook and page at the top of the area steps and on the lighted threshold respectively. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z It is true that the poet may use the supernatural as distinguished from the divine, to enable him to extend his imaginative scope, and so give us beautiful pictures which would be otherwise unpresentable. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Instead, he took the opposite course; and while the footsteps of Mr Lucas were resounding through the gallery, the hands of Mr Swinton were busy in making himself as unpresentable as possible. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z It is late," he said, "and I am dusty and unpresentable. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z They splashed about with the water in the pond, made themselves unpresentable with mud and dirt and dared to pluck the Victoria Regias, which was strictly forbidden. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z He turned round as the unpresentable pair made off. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z I went below, secured a seat for breakfast, and made myself less unpresentable. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Unless I’m unpresentable, why do you—never take me anywhere with you?” The Law of Hemlock Mountain “Yea, my liege,” explained Nell, winsomely; “you see–I did not expect the King so late, and so was unpresentable.” Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time Consequently the cloth gave way, and there was poor Frank, reduced to rags and tatters, and utterly unpresentable in any decent society. Among the Brigands But the mother is quite unpresentable, perfectly impossible. Somehow Good This preparation consisted largely in moving all presentable articles in all the rooms into these two, and banishing all unpresentable into the most remote of the other rooms, and shutting that door. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Pauline toiled bravely over the endless array of pinafores which the youthful Hardings managed to make unpresentable in a week. A Princess in Calico When the process is only partly completed, the bird has a smutty, unpresentable appearance. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs Little Annie, carried away by his eloquence, was fairly panting to make dots and dashes fast enough, and she was sopping her eyes with an unpresentable, end-of-the-day handkerchief. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Just for one thing Brenda was thankful—they were not outwardly so unpresentable as she had anticipated. Queensland Cousins She says she doesn't know what she has done to have such a shy, unpresentable daughter. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 The reverse process of the production of motion by consciousness is equally unpresentable to the mind. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 "But is her husband so horribly unpresentable?" and madame's beautiful eyes are filled with sympathy. Floyd Grandon's Honor Every profession has its unpresentable aspects, which ought not to be seen by outsiders. The Eye of Osiris Those Lydia could do herself, or she could hire an unpresentable older scrubwoman to do them. The Squirrel-Cage “I’m sorry you are such an unpresentable bridegroom,” said the Trader, when they were about to separate. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains The reverse process of the production of motion by consciousness is equally unpresentable to the mind. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 So dreadfully boring for a clever man to be hampered with a silly wife—and one with such unpresentable relations, too. The Making of a Soul I do not think I have named a single unpresentable fish. Gryll Grange The elegance and taste of patient culture have been vulgarized by forced contact with the unpresentable facts thrust upon us by the ready writer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Her father's suffering visage warned her how flurried and unpresentable she must be growing, and the poor little thing began to cry. Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands Near the state-house stood the whipping-post in the corner, humble as a hitching-post, and the brick jail hid out of the way there also, like an unpresentable servant ever cringing near his master's company. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times She was secretly indignant with Anne's view of Walter as unpresentable in the circles of the spiritual élite. The Helpmate But,' he adds, 'the production of consciousness by molecular motion is quite as unpresentable to the mental vision as the production of molecular motion by consciousness. Is Life Worth Living? Mr. Fairfax will be the last to hear of him; the mother must be some unpresentable person. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Madame Joyselle was, socially speaking, absolutely unpresentable, for she had remained in every respect except that of age what she had been born—a Norman peasant. The Halo I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson The effect is not so absolute when it is a second name that can be tucked away if unpresentable, but even then it is a misfortune. An Englishwoman's Love-Letters A Troubadour Brother, with a revengeful and quite unpresentable gipsy foster-mother, would have proved very trying persons to live with. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 Much of the flavor is lost by turning from one pot into another, and the shapes are now sufficiently pretty to make the block tin ones not at all unpresentable at table. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes Her hair was rumpled, her collar awry, and her whole appearance untidy and unpresentable. Patty and Azalea If a dish appears that is unpresentable, she as quietly as possible orders the next one to be brought in. Etiquette He spoke slowly, for indeed it was this action of words that was beginning to make clear to himself his own impression, so vague and so unpresentable before. Flames Captain Paul was equally unpresentable in fastidious parlors, but whatever our apparel it did not diminish the keenness of our appetites. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life He is the idol of equivocal women, and condescends to patronize unpresentable gentility-mongers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Save that he was hatless, and that his trousers clung, he was not utterly unpresentable. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns The Winnipeg women are indulgent, they make allowance for my unpresentable attire, and shower upon me cheery wishes for the success of my journey. The New North In the side of the studio was a very small window from which the girls, when unpresentable, would parley with early tradesmen. The Roll-Call Emerson once scandalised some of his admirers by saying that he preferred a person who did not respect the truth to an unpresentable person. George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway Ancient mourning observances.—The female relations allowed their hair to hang entirely unrestrained, clothed themselves in the most unpresentable attire, the latter of which the males also do. A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians The man was quite unpresentable, and I had seen no more of him at Simla, but of the woman just enough to know her by matchlight on the terrace at the Riffel Alp. No Hero I had of course put on my coat, but having no means of ablution at hand, I must have presented a very unpresentable appearance when I entered. Wilfrid Cumbermede But the house was undergoing renovations which made it as unpresentable as a moulting fowl. Our Hundred Days in Europe His black, dishevelled locks looked like an inverted crow's nest, and altogether he was unpresentable, appearing more like the presiding divinity of a dust-heap than of an "Art Building." Barriers Burned Away He was covered with blood and dirt, and was an unpresentable object, but he was really relieved to discover that his limbs were intact. 100%: the Story of a Patriot When I saw them before, they were rustic little monsters; but they are less unpresentable now. Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume She was a nice little thing, very shy and timid, but by no means unpresentable, and an evident lady. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay Archaeology has disinterred various badly preserved and unpresentable relics of old arts such as sculpture and architecture. The Galleries of the Exposition Others of that institution had promised to attend the party but, on being overhauled by the conscientious Vice-President, were found to be unpresentable at the last moment. South Wind It happened that the General was gardening—not the pretty occupation of pruning—he was digging—and of necessity his coat was off, and he was hot, dusty, unpresentable. Complete Short Works of George Meredith It happened that the General was gardening— not the pretty occupation of pruning—he was digging—and of necessity his coat was off, and he was hot, dusty, unpresentable. Case of General Ople Isabel was of opinion he wouldn't stop because he had married an unpresentable young woman somewhere out in South Africa. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay Mrs. Bubb, though she had retired to her chamber, was not yet wholly unpresentable; reluctantly, and with wonder, she went to answer the untimely visitor. The Town Traveller Her savings, however, were sufficient for the purchase of a few accessories, which made her, she considered, not unpresentable. The Nether World And what would be her husband's feelings if she too collapsed and became unpresentable. Nuttie's Father It was not a rebuke for priggishness; it was the unpresentable statement of a fact. Simon the Jester Certainly, except Lord Cosham, I never saw such an unpresentable crew as their relations. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations It is not that my clothes are unpresentable,—it is I, myself, who am unfit to stand in your presence, much less to enter your house. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent There it was that the said Samuel once had his dinner handed to him behind a screen, because of his unpresentable costume, when Cave was entertaining an aristocratic guest. The Nether World Altogether, he was quite unpresentable, and very lucky to have a father who was a dentist in Monteriano. Where Angels Fear to Tread People had great sympathy with him, for it was known that he had married an unpresentable woman who was an incurable drunkard. Dubliners This was her way of alluding to my unpresentable appearance. The Rise of David Levinsky Save for some dust, and a swollen lip, which he could not see, he was not unpresentable. Long Live the King! Unfortunately, he was equally addicted to drinking, and as he was exceedingly shy and timid when sober, and quite unpresentable at other times, his wooing, if it could be so called, progressed but slowly. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation How, coming unexpectedly on them in their Arcadia, the party found them unpresentable through dirt, and thenceforth unknowable through domestic complications that had filled their Arcadian cabin with half-breed children. Snow-Bound at Eagle's Babies are not always strong on the point of dignity, and grown-up men are quite unpresentable. What's Wrong with the World These men were capable of better things than they had done or would ever do; in each case their failure to fulfil youthful promise was largely explained by the unpresentable wife. New Grub Street The brightest colors in my box looked dowdy and dim, and I myself felt like an unwashed, unbrushed, unpresentable sloven. After Dark How was I to appear in the drawing-room of a woman of fashion with an unpresentable hat? The Magic Skin At that time he was—oh, quite unpresentable. Dolly Dialogues As the reward of a tael cannot be unwelcome to a person of your inferior appearance and unpresentable garments, take up your box without delay, and follow the one who is now before you.' The Wallet of Kai Lung Of the acquaintances Yule had retained from his earlier years several were in the well-defined category of men with unpresentable wives. New Grub Street Far removed from this one's anticipations was the thought of becoming inalienably associated with that outrageous person Pe-tsing, or of entering upon an existence which will necessitate a feigned admiration of his really unpresentable efforts. The Wallet of Kai Lung By no means," exclaimed Wang, when he at length understood the full meaning of the project; "it would be a most unpresentable action for this commonplace person to interfere in so honourable an undertaking. The Wallet of Kai Lung |
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