| 单词 | unromantic |
| 例句 | Sharp stars pierced singly through the blackness, not sweeps of them or clusters or Milky Ways as there might have been in the South, but single, chilled points of light, as unromantic as knife blades. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Dating a girl whose mom was the goddess of love ... well, Jason was always afraid he’d do something unromantic and Piper’s mom would frown down from Mount Olympus and change him into a feral hog. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Focusing on plain, unromantic subjects was another, picked up from Mr. Johns and Claes Oldenburg. ‘Sturtevant: Double Trouble,’ a Career Retrospective at MoMA 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z “That would be too unromantic. It’s a mental note.” Sex schedulers: meet the couples who diarise their love lives 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Faulks's unromantic choice is to have his protagonist forget the woman he loved once he is in the trenches. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-22T21:55:12Z “I wanted unromantic, unpoetic, unsanitized visions of death. I wanted the naked, banal reality of this thing that will come to us all.” Here Are the Nitty-Gritty Details of Death Nobody Wants to Talk About 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z But not every part of death care has to be so unromantic. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z But there’s also something off, even a bit sardonic, about the juxtaposition of Laura, a mousy little blur, and this particular song, with its louche, emphatically unromantic world-weariness. ‘Compartment No. 6’ Review: Strangers on a Russian Train 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z She’s also bluntly unromantic, which may come as a shock to fans who swooned over the ideal of a boyfriend she created. Lurlene McDaniel has made a career of making people cry 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Almost the last time we saw each other was in Lisbon’s distinctly unromantic car pound. Unhappy Valentines: romantic holiday disasters 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The sounds in the last four lines become particularly evocative and lightly alliterative, with the unromantic "sandwiched" nicely echoed by the expressive Welsh word "cwtched". Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z We said goodbye in the unromantic glare of fluorescent lighting on the tube, so I don’t think so. Blind date: 'We stayed out until curfew' 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z I was taken by the unromantic exploration of her mental illness. “He wants to destroy himself and the world”: stars Tom Cullen and Tatiana Maslany talk about “The Other Half” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Hurt’s pallor, fearful expression and prominent ears made him an especially feral and unromantic rebel. John Hurt, British Actor Hailed for His Shape-Shifting Roles, Dies at 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z His play "The Dance of Death" is a demonstration of this ruthlessly unromantic view. A kinder, gentler 'Dance of Death' at A Noise Within 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Perry attacks the screen with the slashing strokes of an abstract painter on a tear, filling the frame with sweating bodies, giant heads, claustrophobic rooms and singularly unromantic glimpses of New York. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z It's such a part of my life and, in some ways, it's a very unromantic part of my life. Curtis Sittenfeld: 'I know my characters are unlikable sometimes' 2013-06-15T16:30:00Z With those releases and this one, he has been working a different persona: bummed-out, apathetic, confused, self-pitying, unromantic yet still needy. The Playlist: Justin Bieber Boosts a Friend, and 14 More New Songs 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Despite this narrative not-so-sleight of hand, Bump’s ending still manages to be unexpected and unromantic, while containing so much love and hope. A Comic Coming-of-Age Novel Laced With Social Commentary 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z That's the unromantic truth about this version of the secret city. John Lanchester rides the London Underground 2013-03-02T08:30:35Z Instead, “7 Days” takes a warm, witty look at the kinds of companionship that can emerge even — or especially — in the most unromantic, pragmatic of circumstances. ‘7 Days’ Review: Mothers’ Matchmaking Goes Awry 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z When I was about 5, I thought a musical version of “The Prince and the Pauper” was magical, and it was performed without scenery in an unromantic basement. Just Say ‘Cats,’ and Watch the Fur Fly 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z I was let down by the unromantic appearance of the therapy light. Therapy lamps tested: ‘The optical equivalent of freezing cold shower' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z This exhibition features a new series by Divola, who is known for capturing abandoned buildings and their environments in decidedly cool and unromantic ways. Datebook: Otherworldly collage-paintings, prison art, C.O.L.A. grant winners' work goes on view 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z For him, an unromantic friendship was a happy ending. Review: A Playful ‘Pygmalion’ From Bedlam? Bloody Likely 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z I always use this very unromantic image of the imagination being fed by a compost heap. Susan Cooper: a life in writing 2012-12-21T22:54:02Z For picnics at distant beauty spots and barbecues on the beach, however, it pays to consider the very unromantic question of logistics. How to enjoy eating outdoors: a guide to avoiding wasps, sand and warm mayonnaise 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z A most unromantic setting for such a romantic piece. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z Throughout the album, she presents an unvarnished and unromantic view of war, singing in a sometimes wavering and scratchy voice. ArtsBeat Blog: P.J. Harvey Nabs a Second Mercury Prize 2011-09-06T22:52:07Z Nobody is going to confuse “The Edge of Seventeen” for a Dardennes-like docudrama, but the film combines the accessibility of a Hollywood comedy with the unromantic bleariness of a grey fall afternoon. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in February 2019 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z And that is the highly unromantic tale of how Hello Kitty was born. Hello Kitty exhibition in L.A. will be catnip for fans 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane called the film “not just unromantic but specifically anti-romantic. “Take your valentine along, by all means,” Lane continued. “Fifty Shades of Grey” reimagined as a terrifying thriller 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Nathanael West, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Chandler were intrigued, enchanted and often unromantic about this town, its egos and insecurities, its strivers and connivers. Who is next? High anxiety in Hollywood over sex-abuse scandals 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z All this is unromantic and ignoble, like the shooting of a trapped wolf in a stall. Game of Thrones Watch: So Close. So Far. 2013-06-03T04:30:17Z It was hurried and unromantic, but it was a start. Sex in a hospital bed 2013-05-28T23:00:00Z As rising-star origin stories go, this is rather unromantic, but telling of the times. Meet Blueface, the Self-Aware Rapper Who Knows He’s More Than a Meme 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Which is to say he has an unromantic point of view of how downtrodden the place is. Is there a cure for Rust Belt rhetoric? This witty little novel might be a start. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z In his review in The Times, Charles Isherwood calls the play a “tenderly unromantic romantic comedy.” A 36-Hour Guide to Gay Pride Weekend in New York 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Salon spoke to Petriglieri recently about why she didn’t want to write another book about “who does the washing up” and why it’s not unromantic to treat your relationship like the investment it is. Forget the fights over housework: How couples who both work make it work 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Up top, it’s gleaming, but at ground level, it’s deeply unromantic. At Hudson Yards, One Mall for the Rich, and One for Everyone Else 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Issues of privacy and journalistic ethics get routed through the unromantic triangle of Pat, Bill and Craig. The dark side of America's first reality show 2011-04-21T14:05:00Z Westerberg’s portraits of romantic, bleary-eyed losers—“Here Comes a Regular,” off “Tim,” is the most obvious example—were notably clear-eyed and decidedly unromantic. Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z This exhibition features a series of new works by Divola, who is known for capturing abandoned buildings and their environments in decidedly cool and unromantic ways. Datebook: Portraits of pugilists, a key L.A. collagist gets his due, and a piano show about destruction 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Staples, from Long Beach, Calif., is cleareyed and unromantic in his narratives: “Never paid a toll for stripes, I earned them on them lonely nights/Mac rounds tear the house down like a poltergeist.” Vince Staples, Sebastian Mikael and Girlpool Are Highlights of 2014 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Her TikTok detailed the horrifically unromantic, gesture of stealing her Tabis, and it has been watched a million times and shared widely on other social media platforms. Our digital disillusionment with dating: When loneliness is both caused and fed by living online 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z Do romantic weekends make you feel really unromantic and panicked? How to have sex with the same person for the rest of your life 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z And I was really shocked by how unromantic Tinder is. Candace Bushnell: 'In real life, Carrie and Big wouldn’t have ended up together' 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z A romantic piece composed in an unromantic setting … Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin as her daughter in the Piano. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z Writing a relationship contract may sound calculating or unromantic, but every relationship is contractual; we’re just making the terms more explicit. To Stay in Love, Sign on the Dotted Line 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The world of fakery is shabby, venal and unromantic. Can you love a fake piece of art? 2012-06-03T23:24:04Z As Mr. Oliver says “Lowe’s,” that unromantic home improvement store acquires a numinous glow, as do the words Build It Green, the name of a house-fixtures salvage store in Queens, N.Y. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Spring may have removed your rose-colored glasses, but even his unromantic vision leaves you wishing you had been there. Iconic Food Writers Toppled Off Their Pedestals 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Most of what I read is terribly unromantic. ArtsBeat: Last-Minute Romantic Book Ideas for That Special Someone 2012-02-14T22:20:54Z Which sounded as unromantic as it did anti-everything we achieved in the sexual revolution. Cultural Studies: Adam Smith, Marriage Counselor 2011-02-11T16:50:32Z What is the most unromantic aspect of collecting Mexican folk art? Mexican Village Art Colors Their World 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z All of this makes sense, but it can also feel a little sterile and unromantic, like a Valentine’s Day email from your dentist’s office. The Complicated Business of Personal Lives 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z "In an effort to get an unromantic, unbiased definition of the word, Italian dictionaries of all sizes were consulted," wrote Nan Ickeringill in 1964. Lemony, buttery shrimp for when you're short on time 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Equally unromantic of face is Paul Matthews, a biology professor played by a dowded-down Nicolas Cage in the patchily entertaining dark comedy “Dream Scenario.” Review: Nicolas Cage is pure nightmare fuel in 'Dream Scenario.' That's (kind of) a good thing 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Now, after publishing a collection of short stories and a starkly unromantic novel about Hillary Clinton, she’s back with “Romantic Comedy,” which has a lot going for it, starting with truth in advertising. Review | Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Romantic Comedy’ finds love in an SNL-like place 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z “I need something that is totally buildable, dry, unromantic, just nuts and bolts,” he said. These Engineers Want to Build Conscious Robots. Others Say It’s a Bad Idea. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z From outer to inner, the three brightest rings are labeled with the extremely unromantic names of A, B, and C Rings. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z But true conservatives eschew ideology and welcome all ideas in the secure knowledge that they will prevail through logic, reason and an unromantic view of human nature. Opinion | Why Clarence Thomas shouldn’t have backed down 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z It sounded like the unromantic side of the process, I remarked — like a tech rehearsal in which actors mark their positions onstage and light guys fiddle with their spots. A Radical Collective Takes Over One of the World’s Biggest Art Shows 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The televised view of Pennsylvania, he said, “shows off rather unromantic architectures.” Perspective | When Joseph Stalin died in 1953, this D.C. restaurant celebrated 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Wright, to be unromantic about it, was about form, not function — the kind of architect who often perceived structural engineers as the enemy. USC sells Frank Lloyd Wright's Freeman House to private buyer — with agreement that it be preserved 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z My careful answer is so legalistic, so unromantic, when the reality is that most people don’t regret having kids. The Abortion I Didn’t Have 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Renowned for his unromantic depictions of the American West, he also owned a number of celebrated used book stores. Larry McMurtry: Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment author dies aged 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Furthermore, she felt that money talk was "unromantic" during the earlier years of her romance. Paulina Porizkova says she regrets not signing a prenup with late estranged husband Ric Ocasek: 'Naïve' 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z It was, in many ways, the most unromantic of seasons. It sure wasn’t a traditional season, but the magic of baseball endured 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Rough Magic is the absorbing, brutally personal and fiercely unromantic account of her gallop to glory. Heroes, runners and riders: sports books to get your heart racing 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z The dish was forcibly rechristened during the Cultural Revolution, when such imperial officials were very much out of fashion, as quick-fried chicken cubes, or chicken cubes with seared chillies – both accurate, if rather unromantic descriptions. How to make the perfect kung pao chicken – recipe | Felicity Cloake 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Packed with straightforward, unromantic, no-nonsense information, this technique-driven tome offers perfect clarity for the home bartender. 3 new cocktail books for gifting or using on New Year’s Eve | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z And yet the house itself was unromantic: a stolid Victorian villa, built of massive blocks of red sandstone, on a steep hill overlooking a small seaside town. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The unromantic part of his legacy must not be ignored. Robert Mugabe killed the freedoms he had worked so hard for | Fadzayi Mahere 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z But that mind-set misses the point of gift-giving — and it’s just plain unromantic. Perspective | The science of giving gifts your loved ones won’t want to return 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z I love trees as much as the next person, but I've learned to take a clinical, unromantic approach to taking them out. My Shot: Gil Hanse - Golf Digest 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z The future of the new, more ambitious Hat & Beard may rest — as unromantic as this might sound — not with Gabel’s fighting spirit but with the issue of distribution. J.C. Gabel's indie press gamble, Hat & Beard 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Others accused my partner and me of being “robots” or “unromantic nerds.” It’s time to reimagine consent in our romantic lives | Mandy Len Catron 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z This may sound unromantic, but before the internet era, wedding planning was a lot like car shopping. The Benefits (and Limits) of Using Tech to Plan a Wedding 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Then, of course, there's the unromantic explanation: She ran out of gas. Amelia Earhart found! Great for science, but sad news for mystery buffs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z He is phlegmatically unromantic about his departure from fashion’s most storied city. ‘I don’t think elegance is relevant’: Vetements’ Demna Gvasalia, the world’s hottest designer 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z But Mr. Jackson takes an unromantic view of his party’s prospects. ‘They Can’t Wait to Vote’: Energized Democrats Target Dominant G.O.P. in Statehouses 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z A mother of teenage boys said when she was dating, she found it unromantic if a man asked if he could kiss her. We asked readers how they learned about consent — here’s what 250 of them said 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Many Ugandan women said they prefer foreigner partners to local men, whom they accuse of being unromantic and not caring or loving. Uganda women abandoned by China workers, left with babies 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z I think it's the most unromantic romantic comedy possible. 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' creators weigh in on the exploration of Rebecca's mental health 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The unromantic transaction—which is risky for the male, who has to worry about a surprise attack from the female—can produce around 1,000 spiderlings if successful. Sneaky Animal Sex—Are They or Aren’t They? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z But it was precisely the area’s rough, unromantic aura and the glacial pace of its metamorphosis that attracted the designer and architect Andrea Tognon. In a Desolate Corner of Milan, an Unexpected Home 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The view from up here on the highway is unromantic and brutally efficient, not unlike the overall aesthetic of a city synonymous with air-conditioning and AstroTurf. Over 21 Miles of Highway, Snapshots of a Resilient Houston 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z For generations, the agreements have proven a sticking point for couples who deemed them unromantic. Why you’re more likely to have a prenup than your parents were 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z I think it's the most unromantic romantic comedy possible. 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' creators weigh in on the exploration of Rebecca's mental health 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z But the suburban cabin Wakefield finds himself leads to a brutal, unromantic life. Review: Bryan Cranston shines in moody, escapist ‘Wakefield’ 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Seacraft engender affinity, and perhaps only those who are obliged to take a wider perspective can remain entirely unromantic about them. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z “It’s all very unromantic and yucky,” she said. Wheat the heck? Straw art from rural Montana 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z They were back in their home city, Chicago, albeit in the unromantic surroundings of a dark and cavernous convention hall with giant US flag, presidential seal and TV screens. 'Yes we did': Obama lifts up America one last time in emotional farewell speech 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Five days after Mr. Sabato’s “unromantic,” proposal, his parents traveled from Florida to witness the couple’s ceremony at the city clerk’s office in Lower Manhattan. Is the Recent Spike in Marriages a Trump Bump? 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z She emerges from these pages a resilient, noble, tireless, hopelessly unromantic and entirely singular first lady, one who balked at playing bridge for money because it seemed improper. The woman in Eleanor Roosevelt’s life 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Such unromantic planning is usually reserved for bank robbery getaways. Road Trip Planners That Make Any Drive Fun 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z This is the unromantic side of winemaking in the region of Castile-La Mancha, which accounts for half of Spain’s wine production. Spain’s Wine Industry Is Hiccuping From Its Excesses 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z What’s great about that show is that it’s a completely unromantic view of what your life is about to be. The best commencement speeches: from Jill Abramson to Neil Gaiman 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Its theme, the very theme of our wildly unromantic epoch: accountability. Guest essay: Amid testing season, one teacher asks what it's all for 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z It requires building relationships and doing unromantic things like organizing, which is best accomplished by joining and working within a party. Bernie Sanders isn’t a Democrat: And that’s a real problem when he needs Democrats for his “revolution” 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z The recovery of yet another stolen picture by the great Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch is a reminder of just how seedy and unromantic art theft is in the 21st century. Dashing rogues? No, art thieves are boring goons 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Regular mezcal, meanwhile, largely remained humble, unromantic, bumpkinly, but with its own mythology. A Liquor for the Farm-to-Table Movement 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z In dusty towns of the Cuban interior, a taxi in 2015 may still take the form of a decidedly unromantic horse and buggy. Cuba is coming online, but who will control its internet? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It mixes a willingness to go against both the desires of voters and an influential political ally — and an unromantic fiscal conservatism that has endeared him to some Republicans. Jeb Bush's war against Florida high-speed rail shows his governing style 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z They refuse to rush, however, in unromantic laboratory lighting. How do these birds run on water? 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Field biology, says Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford primatologist and the author of “A Primate’s Memoir,” “requires a huge amount of patience — and this will sound very unromantic — but a capacity for repetition and boredom.” Jane Goodall Is Still Wild at Heart 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z That’s a bold move, since the film is not just unromantic but specifically anti-romantic; take your valentine along, by all means, but, be warned, it’ll be like watching “Rosemary’s Baby” at Christmas. “Fifty Shades of Grey” Review 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Call me unromantic, but there may be less to it. Here's What Your Cupid Is Buying Online For Valentine's Day (Yes, Blue Roses) 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z It shows that someone — to be utterly unromantic about it — is not doing his or her homework. A fine romance: Online daters hire private eyes 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Germans, on the other hand, drink plenty but are generally unromantic. A Matchmaker and a Festival Keep an Irish Tradition Alive 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The main reason for this is the Japanese people’s ambivalent and unromantic attitude toward “change,” especially cultural and societal change. Abe's Japan Is 'Back'...To 'Normal': A Great Tourist Destination; Heading To Fiscal Crack-Up? 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Being the one to initiate that difficult money conversation doesn’t mean you’re coldhearted, unromantic or greedy. How To Bare Your Finances To Your New Love 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z There can be carbon benefits in getting everything under one roof, however unromantic it may seem. The unromantic truth: supermarkets aren’t dying, and that’s a good thing 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Flipping through pictures can also feel unromantic, like a casting call. Cupid’s Arrows Fly on Social Media, Too 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Economic historians, an unromantic bunch, see a peace-offering to a rattled American superpower, presented at a moment when Japan’s rise inspired something like panic. Chinese garden diplomacy 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z That enables me to join the appreciation for the movie’s mercifully unromantic themes. Parents Respond to The 'Frozen' Frenzy 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z “You unromantic cur, how dare you discriminate against someone for their political beliefs?” collectivist America shouts. Why I Can’t Date a Liberal 2014-02-10T10:45:48Z If they get married, “it would really be for financial reasons, as unromantic as it sounds,” said Carper, sitting at a kitchen table next to a window that overlooks their flower and vegetable gardens. Gay couples weigh financial options that accompany marriage 2013-10-18T14:14:28Z And I say that as the most unromantic, cynical person you'll hear, truly. Putting a price on love 2013-09-27T16:23:07Z Following such an in northern Vietnam’s Na Hang Nature Reserve, where I spotted the first slow loris I ever saw in the wild, this indoor environment seems decidedly unromantic. Scientist at Work Blog: Rummaging Among Skins and Skulls 2013-05-14T16:20:59Z Following such an inspiring field experience in northern Vietnam’s Na Hang Nature Reserve, where I spotted the first slow loris I ever saw in the wild, this indoor environment seems decidedly unromantic. Scientist at Work Blog: Rummaging Among Skins and Skulls 2013-05-10T15:19:57Z In fact, some of the behaviours which this vampiric hunk indulged in seemed decidedly unromantic. Copyright In The Twilight Zone: The Strange Case Of 'Buffy Versus Edward' 2013-01-15T18:22:17Z Her musings were suddenly interrupted when her date asked a decidedly unromantic question: “What’s your credit score?” Even Cupid Wants to Know Your Credit Score 2012-12-26T02:05:19Z These are the decidedly unromantic houses of modern production: short, vast complexes, built without any nod to aesthetics. Essay: Outside the Amtrak Window, a Picture of the U.S. Economy 2012-11-05T16:37:11Z His neighbor Urs König, 48, who got out of the dairy business a few years ago to focus on hogs, was equally unromantic. Device Sends Message to Swiss Farmer When Cow Is in Heat 2012-10-02T02:20:08Z It sounds unromantic, but I've got a process to adhere to and if I can do that I will have a good chance of winning. Mark Cavendish targets Olympic glory 2012-07-27T11:18:33Z The name Liszt would be meal or flour in English; so that Frank Flour might have been his unromantic cognomen; a difference from Liszt Ferencz, with its accompanying battle-cry of Eljen! Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z It was a semigruesome, unromantic episode, and it ended with suddenness when the pupil was sent out into the world. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z A young sculptor, meeting Fritz, observed to me privately, "What an unromantic exterior for an artist!" Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z This is very unromantic, but so it was. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z He was a perfect specimen of that unromantic but priceless type with which our public schools and universities never fail to meet the insatiable demands of a voracious Empire. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z For men no longer young the noon hour is a time for the comfortable but unromantic occupation of eating. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Soon all conglomerated into a gummy, brown, close-grained, not over alluring substance to the vision, which was known among the children by the unromantic name of "Rose tobacco." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Mademoiselle Brunelle, an unromantic lady of middle age, too commonplace to enjoy the fantastic, looked on eccentricities with a jaundiced eye, and the contemplation made her peevish. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The suggestion has met a distinctly unromantic response from businesses in the tourist trade, as happened with the UK's two other centres which have mooted this idea, Edinburgh and Cornwall. York debates ?1 per head per night tourist tax 2012-02-14T10:14:17Z Things come to me without striving, besides I am quite unromantic. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z I quite admit, however, that Esplandian is food for the enthusiast, and I do not recommend its perusal to unromantic souls. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Amid such restricted and unromantic environments the boy developed into the man. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z Though composed amid the unromantic surroundings of a dingy, dusty, and neglected back room, the speech has become a memorable document. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z He stood with the hammer in one hand and the chisel in the other, a rather unromantic figure of protest. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z And Mrs. Neff was in the mood of the most unromantic reality. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z It would be a shock even to you, a strong unromantic man, to see what I have become.' A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z If such a vision flashed before the mind of either he made no sign of it, but each kept steadily on in his simple, unromantic task. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z That boot is ruined for the day, and this reminds him that Sydney streets are not paved with gold, but with very unromantic matter-of-fact mud. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z In the hundred years from Irving's first romance to Mr. Howells's latest unromantic novel, most of our books are eminent for just those virtues which America is supposed to lack. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z “It was about the most unromantic moment in my life when I received that.” Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z Marriages in South Korea, for example, are often arranged by a broker in an unromantic process that takes two or three days and costs the Korean groom $20,000-30,000. International marriage: Herr and Madame, Se?or and Mrs 2011-11-10T11:32:57Z He had many interesting things to tell, which he told in that unromantic, matter-of-fact fashion peculiar to the British soldier. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Perhaps “Moneyball” struck a chord with audiences because it presented what seemed like a fresh, unromantic, realist’s view while also presenting a smart plan of attack for the little guys. ?Moneyball? the movie is a big swing and a miss 2011-10-25T00:02:10Z Elderly, unromantic Old Chester did not use this fine word, but it admitted pursuing disaster. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z Denis himself was seen to have a temper, and not unknown to lose it; but they had drifted into a belt of unromantic experience not innocent of the actively abominable. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z They saw from no point of view but their unromantic own. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Miss Simpkins always has such names to her heroines; and they would do very well if they were placed anywhere but in the unromantic towns of our granite State. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z The Romance of War performs its nightly unromantic office ... and I have had many a worse night upon a spring-mattress. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z Mrs. Barkley did not go as far as that, but she did say to herself that Dr. Lavendar was unromantic. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z So far the affair was unromantic enough, for there was not a lady in it. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z A more glum and unromantic group of voyagers, each man twirling his shabby hat in his hands as he waited his turn for the corroded pen, was never seen this side of the Elizabethan era. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z “Wait till you see how I can broil venison steak,” threatened Louise, as she ate a very large helping of despised roast beef from a mere unromantic cow. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z Terribly prosaic and unromantic all this, no doubt; but all young people are not driven mad by persecution, and do not tie their affections up in knots and tangles which can never perhaps be untied. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z It was very unromantic, but it seemed the expression of an intuition. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z For, saving an occasional rebuff by teasing, Lord Artingale’s love affairs seemed to be progressing in the most unromantic fashion. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z He was so strong, so cumbersome, so unromantic. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z This is a typical example of Ovid’s brilliantly clever, quite unromantic, unsurprised, and as it were unblinking way of detailing the marvels of an act of transformation. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z "A very unromantic hiding place, but it is better to be safe than romantic." Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z For, just as though he guessed that Hermione's name for him was "Scotch Granite," and that she lamented Barbara's always falling in love with such unromantic people, he scoffed at Hermione's conception of romance. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z For an hour he never stirred; at length he pushed away his drawing, threw himself back in his chair, and, having been up since dawn, indulged in a very unromantic yawn. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z But the romantic drama was an unromantic failure. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The true state of affairs had not dawned upon his unromantic mind. On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration 2011-05-15T02:00:09.877Z A sluggish, unromantic life was lived, and a precarious livelihood obtained by these hill-folk. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z "It does seem terribly unromantic for the separation to have been caused by the Lobster Quadrille." Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z There must be something to Thombre's unromantic view of the human heart. Crunching the Data of Love 2011-04-28T21:00:00Z He proved to be only a lazy old beggar and quite unromantic. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z It is like making a new acquaintance, having to meet each other in all situations, and in various unromantic and sometimes supremely trying conditions. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z This essentially romantic and adventurous and mystical force seems to have a special hold on many timid, unromantic and unimaginative persons. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Who has forgotten those glorious rides across the Mexican prairies, when we galloped, mounted upon a mustang—a horse would have been too flat and unromantic—on the war trail, and surprised our enemy. Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z The princess at length relents, but upon conditions which appear in these unromantic times equally extraordinary and difficult to fulfil. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z Many a time the bells surprised us at the midst of his soul-stirring recital, and suddenly called us back to the unromantic light of modern day and to the homely exercises of school. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z "A man rejoicing in the very unromantic name of Jabez!—the name's as ugly as himself." A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z "Just so," said Pratt, in the hard, unromantic way of the twentieth century; "it's the kind of church you see in pictures." The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Without more ado, therefore, he took her away with him—and here, though propriety is preserved, the fairy-tale suddenly drops to unromantic fact—he took her to wait upon his wife! Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Truth to tell, this secession is a very shabby, unromantic thing to fight about. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z Mr. Dering lay back in his chair, gazing at the door—the unromantic office door—through which Elsie had just passed. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z Great stories are fine, but sometimes there is no getting around the need for highly untelegenic, unromantic, unhappy data. Books: They Died, and Lived to Tell All About It 2009-11-24T17:36:00Z And in many countries the whole idea of planning in advance for the failure of a marriage seems unromantic—or repellent. Prenuptial agreements: For poorer 2010-03-25T12:06:00Z So I was just dressed in a normal day dress and ankle boots, very unromantic. The marriage manoeuvre - soldier springs surprise wedding 2010-03-06T08:37:00Z I sorrowfully confess that my hero's unromantic regard for truth makes him characterize the above statement as a humbug and an impossibility. The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion You cannot love as I do, or you would discard all such unromantic thoughts. Zula "A somewhat shallow, not to say unromantic, view of life," was Lady Ormstork's sarcastic comment. A Poached Peerage Ruth asked herself how she would feel if she were burdened with that practical but unromantic name, and had to live on a lonely cattle ranch without a girl to speak to. Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway "Yes, I saw him, Jack, this very day, in an unromantic four-wheeler, and he was swearing at a policeman." The Window at the White Cat In unromantic silence had they gone, for after the thrills of the afternoon and evening neither had been in the mood to talk. The Gay Adventure A Romance In his mind the traveler holds of Illinois a tiresome picture, the kitchen garden of a great people, a flat and unromantic necessity. A Yankee from the West A Novel Perhaps it was as well; for, scarcely had she turned her back on the dusty Philander when the lips which had just been pressed to hers opened wide in a very unromantic yawn. A Poached Peerage Those dreams have vanished now, and in their place has risen up the very unromantic and matter-of-fact spectacle of a Chinese triumph. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar The homing of this successful charge wore an unromantic aspect. Last Words In his younger days, as has been observed, he had savored the delights of these unromantic barracks, and had thoroughly enjoyed the experience; now he was blas�. The Gay Adventure A Romance Yet, next morning, even in the unromantic light of day, he was surprised to find that his plan of doing up the drawing-room still held good. A Bed of Roses Ayala is romantic, and that would have been the most unromantic thing out. Ayala's Angel "You found life a stern and unromantic fact," said Father Brighthopes, smiling. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation IT is an unromantic thing for an author to have had no literary vicissitudes. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. The sentimental school of the Restoration thought him vulgar and unromantic. A Short History of French Literature Gabriel had plenty of breathing-room, and the practical and unromantic rascal was sound asleep. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction They won't—they prefer talking by the dead, unromantic muttons, where there are not so many buyers. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The actors and the actresses are full of their work, and the whole place is decidedly unromantic. Work for Women Things at present are just about as dull and unromantic as they could possibly be. The Head Girl at the Gables We have said that one of the large circular huts within the enclosure served the purpose of a kitchen, and hither she proceeded with the exceedingly useful and unromantic object of getting supper ready. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Largely in consequence, then, of the substitution of a fantastic holiness for unromantic goodness, though the Church grew strong in the world, morals remained much what they had been under paganism. Women of Early Christianity These sisters were eminently practical girls, and they came of practical stock–as note the old-fashioned names which their unromantic parents had put upon them in their helpless infancy. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks He had also longed hopelessly to give her approximately a pound of flesh—the cardiac muscle, to put it in cold, unromantic terms. The Ego Machine Lorraine, living in a modern unromantic house in the residents' suburbs of Porthkeverne, had hitherto had little or no acquaintance with the artist population of the town. The Head Girl at the Gables Kingfield was a mixture of ancient and modern, and, though the High School was an unromantic, commodious nineteenth-century building, a corner of it adjoined one of the old mediæval town gates. Loyal to the School The natives put this beautiful marine product to a very unromantic use. The Pearl of India These old tales, or old fables, cast a shade of shame upon our unromantic days. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 In our closets we may perchance compel the unromantic realities of the present to yield beneath the brilliant imaginations of the past; but on the spot itself it is impossible. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries Porter's "girl" was talking in a low tone with a new bank junior who was beginning to realize what a juvenile and unromantic affair school had been. A Canadian Bankclerk From the very start the big brick fireplace in the living-room had held an irresistible fascination for the Terrace girls, accustomed as they were to the unromantic register. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted Near-total muscular relaxation, including even those unromantic aspects of death which are so rarely mentioned. The Sensitive Man He has been digging into the old medi�val records with an unromantic eye, hang him; and he has emerged with his hands full of facts which prove the knights were quite different. The Crow's Nest If it comes to that, neither was I, whereas I have a most unromantic appetite now. Cynthia's Chauffeur There is no evidence to show that la Tour’s second marriage proved unhappy, though it is a very unromantic ending to an otherwise very romantic story. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 It was necessary then to fall back on the unromantic alternative of modifying the constitution of the ministry; and here French solidarity had made his task difficult. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 There stood the grindstone in its usual place, looking a very unromantic object indeed; but the girl viewed it with almost bated breath. Under Padlock and Seal A very unromantic one, no doubt," said Mrs. Ernsley, "as everything is in our unromantic days. Ellen Middleton—A Tale The Prussian remains as he has always been, inartistic, dull, and unromantic. German Problems and Personalities Let us take the unromantic view of common sense. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery She had taken a fancy to Lillian, and declared that her love affair was delightfully interesting and novel for these unromantic times. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge It was inaugurated by the romantic Scott; and at length, by the semi-romantic Balzac and his more or less wholly unromantic followers, bound like a duty on the novelist. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) A licensed hawker is now a very unromantic personage. Old Roads and New Roads The man was gray-haired and big and fat and unromantic, but he loved the cloak model desperately. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories Beyond that point she had not dared to go since marrying the miller, who had dust enough on his shoulders–unromantic dust, unromantic shoulders, goodness knows! Claim Number One This is a matter of cold unromantic fact, and one which very ardent, impossible lovers regard almost in the light of a desecration. The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements Something real, cool, and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. Shirley No one of these details could have kept him from carrying out his purpose; but together they were unromantic. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Bored to death––nothing interested me––living the most commonplace, humdrum, unromantic existence imaginable. Officer 666 The arch-priest's deep-set and glittering eyes swept with venomous hatred the two calm-featured aviators, who looked very plain and unromantic in their flying jackets and khaki serge. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 See, Enna, to what an unromantic and yet enviable state of mind I at last attained. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 They have plenty," I said, "but it's usually bad—at least hopelessly unromantic. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Seems to me for a steady, quiet, self-respecting, dignified, unhooked, unmarried, unmortgaged, unromantic man he’s skylarking and gallivanting around pretty late.” In the Shadow of the Hills Garrison, although in many respects a most unromantic personality, was engaged in a task which gave him all the inspiration of romance. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures To poor Mary this seemed to be most unromantic, most unpromising. Is He Popenjoy? The next week I spent in an Italian prison, a very uncomfortable yet quite unromantic place of abode. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories But this man wore unromantic blue serge upon a person neither fascinating nor repellent. Nobody The connection between love and railroad-riding may not be obvious to all; and there are some, no doubt, who think the flying speed of the modern conveyance terribly unromantic. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 A girl was concerned in one of their earliest encounters, though Litton's share in it was as unromantic as possible. In a Little Town But how delighted one would be to go through such unromantic trifles every hour of every day, if only at the end one could get into the hearts and the homes of the people. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Oh! if so be that hills could turn Their noses up, with gesture antic, Thus would the seven deride and spurn A Roman work so unromantic: 'Was this the ancient Roman Way. Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements The peasant stock of the North of France has a knack of producing good fighting men—they are an unromantic race, but amazingly industrious, shrewd, and very tough. War Letters of a Public-School Boy Besides, he had breakfasted lightly and an unromantic call for lunch was being made on faculties quite as delicate as his mental perceptions. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 This was very unromantic, most of the boys thought, for an Indian without bows and arrows could not be very different from a white man. Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly And so we have tried to tell you the truth—the uninteresting, unromantic truth—about the heathen as we find them, the work as it is. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India No soothing lap of the waters against the sides of the vessel consoled these unromantic men. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska The inhabitant must have been a prodigious agriculturist; and probably preferred the useful, but unromantic heap, to any other object in the view. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 And so wags our daily life—hard, unremitting, unromantic labour, day after day, year after year. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand In the sane cold light of early morning the overnight escapade was a draggled, unromantic bit of folly. The Education of Eric Lane We lost the uncomfortable sense of being merely spectators in the Urga theatricals, and forgot that we had come to the holy city by means of a very unromantic motor car. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' All such careful observances tend to remove, as much as-220- possible, from the modern repast, the prosaic, and unromantic ideas suggested by the idea of eating. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society A more unromantic chamber could not be conceived. The Manor House School But these rosy prospects were still in the dim and distant future; the present was entirely prosaic and unromantic. The Madcap of the School It may be most unromantic, Sandy dear," she said, "but I'm hungry. Rimrock Trail And here one wonders whether the Australian novelists who find so little material in Sydney and Melbourne have seen what the new writer, Henry B. Fuller, has done with the life of modern unromantic Chicago? Australian Writers Both hot and cold dishes are to be had; and substantial food, as well as all manner of sweets, should be furnished for an amusement that begets a most unromantic hunger. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Jim and Sorry, the two unpicturesque cowboys of whom Lorraine had complained to the cat, had already departed with pick and shovel to their unromantic task of digging post holes. Sawtooth Ranch It's ugly—unromantic—but there are the facts. The Limit For there is no doubt that Mr. Bennett has some uncanny power of realising the conflict of human souls, and that there is an astonishingly adroit method in his mania for unimportant and unromantic detail. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 But even if this were not the case, it would be irrational in a woman so eminently sensible and unromantic as she is shown to be in the first half of the story. Australian Writers Reader, that object is the heroine, if I may so say, of this very unromantic story. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 The newly wedded pair went off for a honeymoon, whose promise of indefinite length was eventually cut short by an unromantic War Office. The Rough Road What an unromantic ending to a most weird story, with every surrounding at hand, every element ready except the actual ghost himself! Through Finland in Carts It is a fine thing, though, about the unions effected on these unromantic terms, that they usually last long, the man and wife growing more affectionate, more tender, more trustful, as they advance in years. Change in the Village And Mark obeyed, feeling that the unromantic interruption had effectually broken the spell. The Giant's Robe Their courtship would be brief and unromantic, but, as I was afterward to learn, three-fourths of the marriages so made turned out an unqualified success. Lorimer of the Northwest Antonio, her so-called husband, is an unromantic and even questionable figure. A History of Elizabethan Literature Here was a most ridiculous and unromantic position: she neither dared to advance nor retreat; and she stood grasping a ledge of the rocky wall in an agony of cowardice and irresolution. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Here is the somber Britisher with confident stride and air of proprietorship, there the unromantic German slowly but surely capturing Oriental trade. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan The whole categorical array of inconveniences incidental to traveling in a new, unsettled country paled into insignificance when she considered this horrifying and entirely unromantic fact. The Trail to Yesterday Pachuca chuckled delightedly; it pleased his whimsicality to think that so apparently unsurmountable a difficulty should be solved in so plain and unromantic a fashion. Across the Mesa In some such peace the Fading Flower commonly finds her rest—a peace unromantic, utilitarian, and yet not perhaps unbeautiful. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) If it were not for the people, the journey by steamer from Belgrade to Pesth would be rather unromantic. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 An unromantic film of dirt hid the fact that his Scandinavian cheeks were like cream-colored silk stained with rose-petals. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Such things did not happen these unromantic days to musical celebrities. The Place of Honeymoons Polly’s imagination immediately forsook the American and indulged in a rosy picture of herself as the owner of a mine—a gold mine—coal was too unromantic. Across the Mesa But otherwise he knows that match-makers of the unromantic worldly type will be only too glad to leave him alone. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) It was eight o'clock and Monday morning when the romantic rascals were led away in unromantic bonds. Stingaree A note-book seemed so singularly unromantic, but at the time she felt nearer tears. To Love Though the early members of this family seem to have been content with a very modest position and very unromantic occupations, the later members have become more ambitious. Shakespeare's Family Was there ever so unromantic and prosaic affair as this marriage, thought Doris, as she stepped into the taxicab which was to convey her to the registrar's office? The Secret House But then comes office-work, or the Times, or some other distraction, and later on perhaps a visit from some matter-of-fact friend with an unromantic taste for "bitter," or a weakness for the Burlington Arcade. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Goats are comparatively common as pets in the Navy, but the goat of all the goats was a white creature rejoicing in the unromantic name of William who lived on board a cruiser. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories A substantial breakfast was brought up, and, unromantic as it may seem, both Sam and Julia made great havoc among the eatables. Sam's Chance And How He Improved It Don Quixote's was but a thing of the imagination, and Daudet's, in Provence, was but a dismantled, unlovely, and unromantic ruin. The Automobilist Abroad But the laundress is of so unromantic and jouncing a figure that I abandon the fancy when no more than her shoulders are above the scuttle. Chimney-Pot Papers And in this prospect of booty most assuredly lay the unromantic motive of the sole romantic expedition amongst the Greeks. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 He rubbed his brow, looked out of the window, heard the unromantic honk-honk of a piratical night-owl taxicab on the street so far below. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play The occupation was thoroughly unromantic, little calculated to appeal to the imagination. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters Its origin is essentially unromantic, and its employment, in the earlier stages of its history at all events, was merely an attempt to prevent the inevitable pirate from reaping where he had not sown. Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography She don't like pots and kettles, but they often teach us unromantic but necessary lessons that fans and perfumery never could. Six Girls A Home Story Rollo perceived that Mr. George was smiling at his very unromantic mode of describing a tournament. Rollo in Scotland You always do look at the unromantic side of things, Bert. A Voyage with Captain Dynamite Though of an unromantic obesity, it appears from the excessive eulogies he lavishes upon Jessimina that he is already the tangled fly in the web of her feminine enchantments. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. But alas! the next day we found the forest unromantic, and Clapham Common looked indescribably common in the morning sunlight. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends It is as unromantic as an escape of gas. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Outside in the store a pompous, unromantic man grew more and more impatient for a turn at that booth. Working With the Working Woman In these days that we call the present it has sunk to common use and its rotten timbers are piled with honest unromantic merchandise. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates A short-barreled magazine pistol for each of us was his concession to the present unromantic age. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Such names as "Mrs. Mouse" and "Boofly Woofly" are all very well when whispered teasingly into the delighted ear of one's intended, but they hardly stand the light of unromantic day. Tutors' Lane The poor old man, in spite of his unromantic appearance, had warm blood in his veins and plenty of romance in his heart. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude At this sudden and very unromantic change in the subject Nan laughed. Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves It has now sunk to common week-day uses, and I suppose its rotten timbers are piled with honest, unromantic merchandise. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates Approach; take tickets: you shall witness here The unromantic Faustus of to-day— A Faustus whom no mystic choirs sustain, No wizard fiends blind with prodigious spell. Mr. Faust As a matter of unromantic fact he desired greatly to decline a passage of Anxious Bight that night. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. "It would be dreadfully unromantic to fall in love with a soiled invisible, wouldn't it," said Miss Archer, with an expressive shrug of her shoulders. Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes The desk, the pigeon-holes, the drawers, and the piles of papers might have to do with a foundry or a fish-market, so very unromantic do they appear. Mushrooms on the Moor What a strange thing, this medieval palace, standing in stately beauty in the midst of the hideous, ugly uniformity of the most modern, unromantic and materialistic city of the world! The Root of Evil In cold and unromantic fact, it isn't so. The Pirates of Ersatz I know it seems unromantic to urge a lady with any pecuniary considerations, but I think that under the circumstances, as I have explained them, you will forgive me. Miss Mackenzie And how much more yet, when, as in this case, he has fallen on the field of unromantic duty, done with faithfulness, and with kindness, and with humanity. The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale Everything it seemed that fingers could make, useful or ornamental, from handsomely dressed dolls to pincushions, from white aprons with lace and ribbon bows on the dainty pockets down to unromantic holders. A Little Girl in Old New York Yes, these are unromantic days, and there's no mistaking that fact! The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture He was also elated at the thought of firing at real wild birds and animals—his experiences with the gun having hitherto been confined to the unromantic practice of a shooting-gallery in Regent Street. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication Romance has by no means been taken out of the world; nor has it been, to use an unromantic phrase, reduced in quantity or quality. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters His marriage, indeed, fortunate if unromantic, the sequel of more than one unfortunate romance, gave him a companion whose tastes were as simple, and whose purposes were as upright as his own. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Laura was very safely married to a man several years her senior—a stern, hard-headed, unromantic lawyer, who was what the old ladies call "a good provider." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers I am a plain, unromantic person, who takes and leaves a great deal for granted—I thought you knew that. The Courting Of Lady Jane But they knew—for it was one of the wise maxims of their unromantic fathers—that industry and honesty must soon gather friends, and that all other desirable things would speedily follow. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States It reflected its writer; she had always thought him unromantic, and now he seemed to her intolerably prosaic, conceited, pettifogging, utilitarian. The Nebuly Coat We pride ourselves nowadays in living in a 'matter-of-fact' age, by which we mean a practical, unromantic age. The Book-Hunter at Home But it is an unromantic object to which to give money, and the total cost, even doing the work ourselves, amounted to just upon ten thousand dollars. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Hannah was the wife of Elkanah, who was a person very much like herself—unromantic and plain, never having fought a battle or been the subject of a marvelous escape. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony Disease, weakening, piteous, unromantic, unheroic, wasted his form; ulcers, sores, horrible and hideous, made his progress slow and his work sometimes a painful struggle over what many a man would have deemed impossible barriers. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time No more splendid pageants in the fields, but close, hard, unromantic destruction in the woods and among trenches and craters! Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman But when, recovered from her alarm the young stranger subsided into the very unromantic occupation of drying her wet frock by the kitchen fire, Olive regarded her with no small curiosity. Olive A Novel I had a fine leading dog bearing the unromantic name of Podge, and pure white in colour. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell They were not in relation to the altered facts of life; they had become an empty convention which could be turned to very unromantic uses. The Task of Social Hygiene Even when the missionaries taught them a better faith, they continued to hold the Mountain in superstitious reverence—an awe that still has power to silence their "civilized" and very unromantic descendants. The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' Swift in the wake of sorrow came the unromantic form of toil. St. Cuthbert's "Doubtless my pallor was due to some such unromantic cause as an extremely bad dinner." The Californians It was only eleven o'clock and he told Archie that he might spend an hour at the woodpile, even guiding him to that unromantic spot and initiating him into the uses of saw and ax. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! But he will scarcely think, till bitter experience compels him, of very long watches in dirty unromantic weather, of holy-stoning the decks, scraping down the masts, and clearing out the coal-hole. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories Now, instead of admitting that the commonness of the name of Brown proves its owners to be unromantic, we hold that this is a distinct evidence of the deep-seated romance of the family. Hunting the Lions Stumps, Stumps,” he soliloquised, sadly, one day while standing on “the green” in the unromantic shade of a huge bale of cotton, “how could you behave so after being our trusted comrade so long!” The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables The ocean and sky presented that mysterious co-mingling of their gorgeous elements that irresistibly call forth the wonder and admiration of even the most unromantic and matter-of-fact men. The Red Eric “That was a strange slip for an unromantic fellow like you to make about a maiden’s heart, Ian,” said Victor, looking up at the rugged countenance of his friend. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood I'm sure this rough-looking fellow is no father of mine," cried Jim, who had been sadly disappointed at the unromantic character of the revelation; "but I'll find out the secret of this matter yet. A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune Just because the Brown family is large, it has some to be deemed unromantic. Hunting the Lions Very unromantic principles these, but the young lady in question was totally unlike any heroine of any novel I ever read. Hurricane Hurry There against the unromantic background the two girls stood looking at each other, face to face with the great question of their lives. The Fortunes of the Farrells “Did you ever see Paradise, that you know so well what it is like?” asked Victor of his unromantic friend. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood A very unromantic situation for fostering the growth of the tender passion, you say? She and I, Volume 1 This unromantic portrait corresponded sufficiently nearly with the description already given. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life It was not in his practical, unromantic temperament to play the Gargantuan role. The Masques of Ottawa The suggestion, however, adds interest to a walk on the otherwise unromantic Brunswick Lawns. Highways and Byways in Sussex “Not bad, for an unromantic imagination,” said Victor, with much gravity. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood At the office the figures kept his mind fixed by their unromantic rigidity; but once outside, it took its revenge for that inexorable profession. The Nabob, Volume 1 Don't you know that old Irish troth," he said, "which would have been enough, even in that hard, unromantic world of ours, to have made you legally my wife, if said over any Scottish stream? The Master-Knot of Human Fate The Tempting of Tavernake In which an unromantic Englishman falls in love and learns something about women. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo So that Teufelsdröckh’s public History were not done, then, or reduced to an even, unromantic tenor; nay, perhaps the better part thereof were only beginning? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History He would fain have kissed the spot that had been pressed by a patch put on by Elsie, but he was “unromantic,” and refrained. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood It has occurred to me again and again as I have read the record of thy dealings with thy saints that the Christian life is not to be a dull and drab and unromantic thing. Sermons on Biblical Characters It will do you good to stay a while with my good, methodical, unromantic wife. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author If ever there was a man who seemed unromantic, it was he, heavy and prosaic and so shy that he was visibly agitated even in bowing to a woman acquaintance. The Plum Tree For romance and gaiety in London are grafted to an otherwise unromantic and lugubrious hulk. Europe After 8:15 It is unromantic to have to confess that it fell at last into the washhand basin, and was reduced to pulp. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son His diary for these four days is very short and unromantic. The Dark Forest In short, Bernard Shaw is still haunted with his old impotence of the unromantic writer; he cannot imagine the main motives of human life from the inside. George Bernard Shaw Yet the beginnings of his career in the world were unromantic to the last degree. The Sea-Kings of Crete And yet, this unromantic English sailor had a gleam of Don Quixote in him. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes Jim and Sorry, the two unpicturesque cowboys of whom Lorraine had complained to the cat had already departed with pick and shovel to their unromantic task of digging post holes. The Quirt In fact Gibbon paid his court with an assiduity which makes an exception in his usually unromantic nature. Gibbon Then came the last scene in the tragic part of my unromantic experience. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 I'm wearing a Dunlap hat—I've got a copy of the New York Herald in my bag—President Roosevelt is alive, and everything is so very unromantic in the world! In Search of the Unknown An unromantic poem I mean to make Of one who only lives for duty's sake. Love's Comedy Whatever they were, a fearfully unromantic and utterly indescribable howl from Winnie put an unceremonious end to them. Gypsy's Cousin Joy She had grown so accustomed to the sight of the thick-set, unromantic figure swinging lazily to and fro on her sorely tried music-stool, watching her with serene grey eyes that generally held a smile. The Swindler and Other Stories We had two capital horses, and were driven for eight miles by the side of a mountain torrent called by the unromantic name of the Peabody River. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 It sounded too unromantic to say one passed out from drinking dead cow! I Married a Ranger The Temperance Hotel, where the girls finally stayed their weary feet, was quite modern and unromantic, though well aired and fairly comfortable. A Popular Schoolgirl Now a woodshed is a hideously unromantic sort of place. Prudence of the Parsonage Judy would check out her unromantic person in wedding finery because finery was customary on such occasions. The Miller Of Old Church As a plain and unromantic proposition, young man, it may be her liver. The Danger Mark Next, though most of these stories are rightly called romances, no one can avoid observing that they give that side of life which is unromantic, quite as vigorously as the romantic side. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) With regard to women, abundant examples have been adduced to illustrate the sensual and unromantic spirit of these lettered lovers. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse This may seem unromantic to the reader; nevertheless, it was prudent on our part. The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got Into An Uproar. The worst of it is that people are often so modest, they think that their own experience is so dull, so unromantic, so uninteresting. At Ypres with Best-Dunkley Among the problems which his miniature municipality brings to the country house owner is the unromantic but necessary one of sewage disposal. If You're Going to Live in the Country Though it was small and of an unromantic squareness, it seemed the center of a vast empire during the week which was now ending and they were sorry at the thought of leaving it. Pee-Wee Harris Adrift Before Belmont, however, the codfish and potatoes, and the ale, and cream cakes disappeared with a very unromantic and unlover-like velocity. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales His work is almost comically unromantic, painfully unpicturesque. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital There is something compelling in the human eye, a magnetism upon which Science has yet to put her cold and unromantic finger. The Princess Elopes In Paris and Rome it was all very well; but it is a risky thing to do in unromantic New York and London. Hearts and Masks No youthful enthusiast can now be beguiled into calling it The Maypole; and, indeed, in these unromantic days, though it had remained unchanged, there would be little danger of this I think. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland It bore the rather unromantic and uninviting title of "A Royal Council for Advice, or the Regular Education of Boys the Foundation of all other Improvements." Life of Adam Smith He was a coarse, brutal marauder, illiterate enough to have satisfied Earl Angus, and as unromantic as the Integral Calculus. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' Yet she actually presented us—this downright, determined, apparently unromantic woman—with buttonholes of small white roses tied up with white ribbon: ribbon that in our grandmothers' days, I believe, was called love ribbon. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 And as for me, I never dreamt I could be so unromantic. Hearts and Masks Such unromantic literature as Acts of Parliament had not, it may be supposed, up to this, formed part of my mental pabulum. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland And for one second he allowed himself to regret that he was to acquire so unromantic a son-in-law. The Half-Hearted He had found his parents very unromantic people, who took a severely commonplace view of things, and retained unquestioning faith in the strap as a means of elevating the youthful idea. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Gil was hidden in a most unromantic place; a sort of dugout, one-third dirt, one-third boards, and one-third stone, in which hams were smoked. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue And she is just too pretty and sweet to be eaten up by these wolves of men she will meet in England, with that unromantic, unattractive husband along. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story What a queer, stuffy background … hardly unromantic, though, when you thought of all trains stood for and had seen! Secret Bread It was such a sharp contrast to the hum-drum, unromantic American life he had latterly known that he derived a certain enjoyment from the novel experience. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad It is not often that such a piece of awkwardness as this is perpetrated on the stage, but dramatic heroines are nevertheless liable to sundry disagreeable difficulties of a very unromantic nature. Records of a Girlhood Therefore, Captain Barbican," cried the Frenchman, "as we should like to appear before the Selenites in full skins, please land us in the snug though unromantic North. All Around the Moon If he be, so to speak, but a worm-fisherman,—a follower of humble occupations, and pledged to unromantic duties,—let him still thrill with the pleasures of the true sportsman. Fishing with a Worm Also his commonsense told him that the sordid and quite unromantic incidents were likely to pile up more thickly than any of charm or pleasure. Secret Bread Many men and women feel this to be unromantic and nerve-racking, and otherwise objectionable. Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity It has occurred to me," he added innocently, "that it takes an uncommonly thick-skinned and unromantic dub to tour about covered with hay. Diane of the Green Van Lubin had some slight difficulty in extricating him, and for the moment, at least, his poetic fantasies came to an abrupt and unromantic finish. Austin and His Friends The sun he hoped would presently abate its unromantic fervor. Kenny His impetuosity, however, was all in vain; not even an echo reverberated through the cold and empty walls, but, on the contrary, every peal was followed by a most unromantic and ominous silence. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One This method is unreliable unless applied immediately after each connection, and syringing at that time is inconvenient and unromantic. Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity Now the young man of the hay, I take it, is intensely practical and let us say—unromantic. Diane of the Green Van Wordsworth again, though innovating in practice and theory against eighteenth-century tradition, is absolutely unromantic in contrast with Scott and Coleridge. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century They were the kind, built for walking, likely to be in a state of unromantic preservation at his journey's end. Kenny Such a road towards truth is highly unromantic. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Very unromantic personages, however, answered our inquiries for Annesley, which reassured us of its reality. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Illness, love of adventure, a longing to brush elbows with the world, a hunger for the woodland—in the eyes of unromantic men these things are weaknesses. Diane of the Green Van The most wildly romantic situations become tamely unromantic under Southey's handling. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century And the doctor, practical and unromantic, had pushed a weary finger through them, one by one, watching them collapse with his bored and kindly smile of understanding. Kenny Fitzgerald, feeling wholly unromantic, now that he had arrived, dropped his hand-bag on the damp platform and took his bearings. A Splendid Hazard The natural perils to navigation were but an ignoble and unromantic kind—the shifting sand-bar and the treacherous snag. American Merchant Ships and Sailors It was so utterly unromantic ashore—docks, wharves, miserable buildings and brown fields, very distant. Captivity Stendhal announced himself as an adherent of the new, but his temper was decidedly cool and unromantic. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century He himself could have told that story of Adam and Cordelia Craig until no man could have called it commonplace and unromantic. Kenny There's a drop of commercial blood in your veins somewhere, the blood of the unromantic. A Splendid Hazard Did she know that just such treatment—strange paradox—won, while it at times wounded, the heart of the unromantic Westerner? Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics She would not have been Florrie at all, but some very different, unromantic, and unimaginative creature, had she failed of comprehension. The Bells of San Juan Back we turned, by the next day's train, full of a sense of frustration; what an involved, unromantic, practical world we lived in! Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Joan, searching for the unknown sparkle of that Bohemian world she had been unable to envisage, stared at the unromantic basement doors ahead and clung to Kenny's hand. Kenny Only a dancing girl, With an unromantic style, With borrowed color and curl, With fixed mechanical smile, With many a hackneyed wile, With ungrammatical lips, And corns that mar her trips! Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs "It's a migrating tribe of Aryans driven to new hunting grounds by hunger or over-population," said Miss Greeby, for even her unromantic nature was stirred by the unusual picturesqueness of the scene. Red Money Even in the Tiergarten-Strasse, where the Jewish millionaires live, there was little traffic and few people about, and I felt singularly unromantic as I walked briskly along the clean pavements towards Unter den Linden. The Man with the Clubfoot He was uttering his thoughts aloud, and the unromantic waiter stared at him. The Imaginary Marriage An eye for nothing there but duty and even that he saw in a stark and unromantic way. Kenny Other people's poetry—I don't mean their published verse, but their absurdly romantic view of unromantic objects—is terribly hard to translate. Prose Fancies "Well, I must say you are a sensible young man!" laughed Mrs. Leland; "but it was very unromantic to be so heavy as to break the limb and fall." Elsie's children Of the total distance of 15,000 knots under steam, 12,000 were traversed under those special circumstances which seem to justify even a yachtsman in availing himself of the unromantic but invaluable engine. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Till now, I had seen the hero, a Roman, merely a gallant chieftain of the most unromantic of all commonwealths, the land of inflexibility, remorseless daring, and fierce devotement to public duty. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 Of course, Melisande would say that that was very stupid and unromantic of me—— BOBBY. Second Plays The joy she felt in his preservation would not be entirely confined to her heart, and Uncle Nathan—unromantic bachelor as he was—could not but discern the deep interest she felt in him. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue She was unromantic, with a painfully literal cast of mind, though Custer—without knowing what is meant by a sense of humor, suspected her of this rare gift, a dangerous and destructive thing in woman. The Just and the Unjust It was all so unromantic, so unemotional, so utterly different from the scene she had pictured when she imagined what "breaking her engagement" would be like. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Some one, and it is unnecessary to mention the sex, had given a sigh, and regretted that nineteenth century life was so prosaic and unromantic. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him But mixing Mother up in it makes it all so—so unromantic. Second Plays There in 1845 he built a factory and made a deserved fortune out of his decorative ingenuity with what before had been plain, unromantic yellow or store cheese. The Complete Book of Cheese Pope, who was a friend of the amorous Earl, draws a pathetic picture of him in the latter unromantic days of his romance. Love Romances of the Aristocracy The abbey is abandoned, after it has served its purpose in disciplining the heroine, in favour of the unromantic country parsonage. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Their dramatic meeting invested him in her eyes with more interest than she would have found in any man whose acquaintance she had made in a more unromantic and conventional manner. The Elephant God Those eyes belonged to a widower, with three children, named Charles Sigourney, a thriving hardware merchant, of French descent, and those "unutterable things" were uttered at length through the unromantic medium of a letter. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs If he can quite forget her—and will be so unromantic—why, let him, and perhaps small harm done. The Indiscretion of the Duchess Their wives and daughters have seldom been content to lead the unromantic life which happily contents so many of their sex. Love Romances of the Aristocracy And behold, the unconscious victim knew all about it, and had politely interfered when a couple of unromantic "Bobbies" threatened the performance by tumbling the stalking avenger into the gutter! Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts A person you and I know said to me the other day, 'It may sound unromantic, but I could never think of a woman who had thrown me over except with ill-will.' Marcella Moreover, I observe that America looks, to those who come hither, as unromantic and unexciting as the Dutch canals. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I The really absorbing things are questions of material welfare—sordid, physical, unromantic details, which touch you at every turn. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. But the inscriptions show us that rich citizens throughout the Roman Empire frequently made large contributions for just such unromantic purposes. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Uninteresting and unromantic these things may be, but they were most important to us. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico Much could be said of the love of fire which has not yet surrendered all of its charm for even the most unromantic adult. The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work The entire affair, for an unromantic spot like Bursley, was too fantastically and wickedly romantic. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Plain, homely, rocky and unromantic is the country round about, and plain, homely and unromantic is the little house where Carlyle was born. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great He does not appeal strongly to the young, though he never forgets to tell a love story; but he is too placid, matter-of-fact, unromantic for them. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities I think such situations would never arise if parents weren't so painfully unromantic. The Title A Comedy in Three Acts The scarlet coat has sobered down to the somber gray and the snuffy brown of that unromantic garment known as the business suit. Personality Plus Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock It was very funny and very unromantic; but it laid me up for a few weeks, and my arm doesn't grow strong as fast as it should, so I have to be careful of it. Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book This quicksand unromantic Closes on him, the Antic, Whose hands with gestures frantic Contiguous coat-tails clutch. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 She evidently regarded the washing-tub as a desirable piece of furniture, and was not even conscious that the act of "soaping in," was an unromantic occupation! In the Days of My Youth But the interior Tiffles was disappointed at this sudden and unromantic termination of his case. Round the Block Such, in brief, is the unromantic history of the founding of the village of Metropolisville. The Mystery of Metropolisville He threw down the dish towel, swept a cup off the table with his elbow when he turned, and otherwise betrayed human, unromantic rage. The Long Shadow It was fully a week later, and that most unromantic portion of the day, between breakfast and luncheon. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters From this point of view Dalton was perhaps right when he asserted that the wild tribes of India come closer to us in their love-affairs than the more cultured Hindoos, with their "unromantic heart-schooling." Primitive Love and Love-Stories The simple, homely, unromantic life of middle England she has made immortal with her wit, her satire, her fine description, and her keen love of all that is human. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy What amount of credit may be placed on that veracious and most unromantic historian, your correspondent doubtless knows better than myself. Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850 With all the achromatic clearness, the unromantic colourlessness of the early morning…. Love and Mr. Lewisham He sat silent under her mockery, his long fingers clasped over his knees, his gaze upon the field below them, his mind recalling unpleasantly a similar incident in his unromantic career. Madcap He was simply doing that very unromantic thing, paying for his wife by working a stipulated time for her father, in accordance with a custom prevalent among primitive peoples the world over. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Yet he only looked his usual sober, unromantic self, standing there at the bottom of her pretty old walnut-wood bed, looking at her with all his wistful, faithful soul in his eyes. From out the Vasty Deep It is only necessary to break in upon them occasionally for the purpose of securing legal advice, or the equally unromantic desire to have a bit of typewriting done. The Man from Brodney's Money was an elemental necessity, therefore he looked upon it with practical, unromantic eyes, and helped himself to it as he helped himself to such elemental necessities as air or water. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories These make a rather sordid and unromantic group. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 The unromantic ideal of the ancient Hindoo is romantically illustrated in a story told in the Hitopadesa of a Brahman named Wedasarman. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Selz was the unromantic name of the commonplace man over whose fifteen-year-old letters Rose had glowed and dreamed an hour before. Cheerful—By Request Chloris gave an unromantic snort and sat with unnecessary clumsiness upon Jay's toe. This Is the End Very busy into the bargain, which makes her as unromantic as anybody can well be. The Aspirations of Jean Servien Only a dancing girl,With an unromantic style,With borrowed colour and curl,With fixed mechanical smile,With many a hackneyed wile,With ungrammatical lips,And corns that mar her trips. The Bab Ballads Failing an unromantic convincing answer, he does just as he pleases unless he can find for himself a real reason for refraining. Treatise on Parents and Children Pitt meanwhile in the dining-room, with a pamphlet on the Corn Laws or a Missionary Register by his side, took that kind of recreation which suits romantic and unromantic men after dinner. Vanity Fair He was always sure that if he were shot it would be in the back while he was lacing his boots, or at some other unromantic moment. This Is the End Irregularly, in a quite inglorious and unromantic way, you know, I am a vicious man. Ann Veronica, a modern love story For of all the sadness about her, of all the tragedies so sordid and unromantic, the most tragic was the hopelessness. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise It was a very unromantic position, but I didn't think about that at the time. Anne of Green Gables It is impossible to live in cities any length of time and with any sort of eyes without learning the bitter unromantic truths about poverty—city poverty. The Grain of Dust She had risen every morning at the chaste hour of seven, breakfasted hurriedly, tidied the tiny two-room apartment, and sat down in the unromantic morning light to wrestle with her stick of a hero. Buttered Side Down: Stories It is the most effectual carrying method known, though unromantic. Fanny Herself His well-known haughty indifference to the society of womankind, his silent avoidance of converse with the sex, contributed a piquancy to what would otherwise have been an unromantic matter enough. The Mayor of Casterbridge It must be a great deal better to be sensible; but still, I don't believe I'd really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic. Anne of Green Gables "I hope I didn't give you the impression I was ashamed of loving her or would ever be ashamed of her anywhere?" continued Tetlow, a very loverlike light in his usually unromantic eyes. The Grain of Dust He stared at the floor as he ended; then choked, and broke into a fit of coughing which unromantic chance brought on just now, of all times. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages Utility is the object aimed at, incontestably with great results, but in effect unromantic as Chicago. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" In this unromantic age Dion's daughter would be recognised within twenty-four hours of her putting on male attire. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Going around by the main road would have been so unromantic; but to go by Lover's Lane and Willowmere and Violet Vale and the Birch Path was romantic, if ever anything was. Anne of Green Gables It was dreadfully unromantic, but Minnie did not fall into a decline. The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy It was singular that such an unromantic scene should look so visionary. Passages from a Relinquised Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") |
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