| 单词 | unsocial |
| 例句 | He is driven, unshaven, unsocial, slightly radioactive and tortured by every new American casualty the lack of a bomb allows. 'Manhattan' an egghead's-eye view of the birth of the atomic bomb 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z It involves calling up rent-a-quote celebs, often during unsocial hours, to ask them what they feel about the euro or the state of the health service or the culling of seal pups. How to get quotes from celebrities... 2011-03-11T08:30:00Z A whole lot of people thronged — maskless! — into an indoor space, sang songs and made speeches, spraying aerosols every which way, and then piled into limousines and headed to unsocially distanced parties. The Oscars Are a Mess. Let’s Make Them Messier. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z For O'Donnell, that meant a week of long, unsocial hours cleaning filthy portable toilets, riding a residential garbage truck and joining a fast-moving sorting line in a Waste Management recycling facility. 2010-02-03T22:58:00Z As Letterman would walk and run onto the stage, Kalter would introduce him with a sarcastic flair as “the king of unsocial media,” “nocturnal rainforest mammal” and other monikers. Alan Kalter, announcer for David Letterman, dies at 78 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The queue was nearly three rows deep and set at library volume level, due to the unsocial and low-caffeinated hour. While passengers sleep, TSA flips on the security switch 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z However, a spokeswoman said the successful firms had submitted bids "within a pre-determined bid range set by the trusts" and the pay rates reflected factors like covering unsocial hours. Stormont budget: Hundreds of nursing student places to be cut in NI 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z When asked whether he said, at one gathering, it was the "most unsocially distanced event" in the UK, he couldn't deny he said it. Boris Johnson grilling: Our correspondents on how it went 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z They work long, unsocial hours and a multimillion-pound company like Mitie can easily afford to pay them decently for the essential work they do. Eurostar security staff to strike in run-up to Christmas 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The tone of voice suggests that I am hiding and being unsocial, when in fact the friend hasn’t reached out to me, either, during that time. Advice | Miss Manners: How do I respond to greetings with impolite undertones? 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z As Letterman would walk and run onto the stage, Mr. Kalter would introduce him with a sarcastic flair as “the king of unsocial media,” “nocturnal rainforest mammal” and other monikers. Alan Kalter, quirky announcer for David Letterman, dies at 78 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Isolation experts say it’s a slippery slope and advise taking steps to keep your social skills as nimble as possible during this unsocial time. We’re All Socially Awkward Now 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z According to White House guidance, masks were required at the unsocially distanced event’s security checkpoints and encouraged in other high traffic areas. At White House, SC’s McMaster flouts his own mask mandate 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z She said this was due to "repeated exposure to and the cumulative effects of trauma" combined with other stresses such as "long shifts and unsocial work hours". More emergency workers suffering mental ill health 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z To achieve this, the proposed contracts would mean evenings and Saturdays would be considered "normal" rather than "unsocial" hours and would no longer attract overtime pay. Jeremy Hunt: What's his track record? 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z "If anything, it is easier to follow from here as all the games are live on TV, although some are at unsocial hours," he said. Hornets fly in for FA Cup final 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z A savvy businessman, he lived an intensely private, unsocial life. Catalonia, Turkey, Harvey Weinstein: Your Monday Briefing 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z “It’s not surprising to me to see cats being social. I’ve never seen cats being unsocial.” Shocker: Some cats like people more than food or toys 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z More than 20% of all workers are in jobs with unsocial hours, and the number of jobs requiring night shifts is increasing. What are the repercussions of one lost night’s sleep? Rudeness is just the start | Paul Kelley 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Instead of Saturdays and Sundays being divided up between normal and unsocial hours, a system of supplements will be paid which depend on how many weekends a doctor works. Junior doctors' row: The basics of the dispute - BBC News 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But the RMT says the dispute concerned unsocial hours and duty rosters for about 80 train managers. Eurostar staff start first of four strikes - BBC News 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Instead of dividing the weekend between normal and unsocial hours, a system of supplements to be paid depending on how many weekends a doctor worked over the course of a year was drawn up. Junior doctor contract will be imposed - Hunt - BBC News 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Instead of dividing the weekend between normal and unsocial hours, a system of supplements to be paid depending on how many weekends a doctor works over the course of a year was drawn up. Junior doctors reject new contract - BBC News 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z The two sides will attempt to resolve outstanding differences, which include Saturday pay and unsocial hours. Junior doctors' contracts: Fresh talks to begin later - BBC News 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Ministers said on Thursday they would re-start talks if they focus on Saturday pay and unsocial hours. Junior doctors: BMA to consider joining government talks - BBC News 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The government is willing to pause the introduction of the new contracts in England for five days - on condition that new talks focus on the "outstanding issues" of unsocial hours and Saturday pay. Junior doctors dispute: 'Surprise' at contract pause - BBC News 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Currently, junior doctors are paid more for working unsocial hours at night or at the weekend. Junior doctors' row: Government hit with second legal challenge over contracts - BBC News 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z "Are you happy to work unsocial hours?" asks an advertisement for a job as a relay driver for Royal Mail in Edinburgh. What exactly are anti-social hours? - BBC News 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The two sides will attempt to resolve outstanding differences, which include Saturday pay and unsocial hours. Junior doctors' contracts: Fresh talks to begin later - BBC News 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z But that proposed increase in basic pay is in effect matched by a cut in unsocial hours payments as the definition of what is unsocial and outside a normal working day is changed. A 1970s-style walkout by doctors - could it happen this year? - BBC News 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The Royal College of Nursing says it will challenge any proposal by the government to scrap or undermine unsocial hours payments. Junior doctors' pay: How does your job compare? - BBC News 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Ministers say they want to simplify complex arrangements which result in extra payments to reward unsocial hours and weekend working on top of the basic salary. Dan Poulter: Junior doctors rightly upset over contract - BBC News 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z They also want a simplified system of payments for weekends and unsocial hours. Junior doctors contract saga - the latest twists and turns - BBC News 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The normally quiet, unsocial creatures repeatedly walloped each other, apparently to claim a particularly appealing pile of shells to roost on. Your Monday Evening Briefing 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Of course, I continue to think the idea that Obama unsocial is overblown. McConnell shoots down Beltway's 'schmooze' push 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The strike is in protest at contractual changes requiring staff to work until 22:30 and removing extra payment for unsocial hours. Barbour staff in further strikes 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Despite the length and frequency of parliamentary "recesses", being an MP involves long, often unsocial, hours and is one of the few professions where people get pilloried for taking a holiday. Why do MPs quit Parliament? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Some of my doubts also stem from the unsocial nature of strapping a gizmo to your forehead and departing planet earth while gaming. Sony's 'Project Morpheus' VR Headset And The Uncertain Future Of Virtual Reality 2014-03-19T18:43:00Z And in general, social CEOs are much more likely to be seen as good communicators than unsocial CEOs – 55 percent vs. How CEOs Can Engage Through Social Media -- A Conversation With Weber Shandwick CEO Andy Polansky On CEOs And Social Media 2013-08-14T20:14:00Z Decidedly unsocial Encryption used in other forms of online messaging—social networks, in particular—is also hit or miss. Fact or Fiction: Encryption Prevents Digital Eavesdropping 2013-07-15T14:15:08.940Z Mr. Kazim cites cultural opposition to working unsocial hours in a career where salaries are lower than other fields. IHT Special: Dubai Hotels Struggle to Fill Jobs 2013-05-23T14:19:12Z Q. What challenges did you face bringing social media into an unsocial culture? Social Media Thought Leader Ford's Scott Monty [part 2] 2012-05-30T14:07:41Z Misled by her insinuations, I regarded the late Sir Henry as a tyrant, and her son, as a youth of sordid unsocial principles! The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes 2012-04-13T02:00:20.243Z And when he became the prey to disease, he became sullen, unsocial, and desponding; evidently the victim of his own self-condemning reflections, and of that retributive justice which never suffers the wicked to go unpunished. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z Christianity, at best, is a cold-hearted system; its followers are generally unsocial. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z His enmity is equally refined, but hardly so unsocial. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z But always, in some measure, he is at the same time unsocial or anti-social, and uncivilised. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z And yet this silent, unsocial man was a power in Trafton; his word of commendation was eagerly sought for; his frown was a thing to be dreaded; his displeasure to be feared. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z He felt so unsocial that he gave up the idea of going to Mrs. Karner's. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The beast is absorbed in the gratification of its appetite, eats without the use of implements, eats unsocially. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Amid the dark, sequestered glade, No more the brute shall roam; For man, unsocial man, hath made That wilderness his home: And convent bell, with notes forlorn, Is heard, at midnight, eve, and morn. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z When Mr. Lincoln entered the domain of investigation he was a severe and persistent thinker, and had wonderful endurance; hence he was abstracted, and for that reason at times was somewhat unsocial, reticent, and uncommunicative. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z Sweet, lovely Elm, who here dost grow Companion of unsocial care, Lo! thy dejected branches die Amidst this torrid air— Smit by the sun or blasting moon, Like fainting flowers, their verdure gone. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z He used to describe himself as a “person of gloomy insignificance and unsocial monomania.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z But he must do more, even in the unsocial state, where he is at perfect liberty to direct his industry as he pleases, uncontrolled by the rights of other men. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z His mind, when a boy in Kentucky, showed a certain gloom, an unsocial nature, a peculiar abstractedness, a bold and daring skepticism. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z Not until nursery duties, which begin early in the spring, are over, late in summer, do they give up their shy, unsocial habits to enjoy the company of a few friends. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z It may bring on him the charge of being unsocial and over strict. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Love is social; fear and anger are unsocial and individualistic. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z It is to be noted, however, that the Ainu, though to a certain extent as imitative as monkeys, have also a large amount of personality and originality, due to their shy and unsocial habits. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z As I knew him to be of a rather sullen, unsocial disposition, I said nothing to him, but proceeded on my way. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z He stated the accommodation he could afford them was not very commodious, but he would consider it unsocial if they did not accept it. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z To tell the truth," answered Krzycki, "the deceased was not only an old bachelor, but also was unsocial. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z “Heaven speed the canvas gallantly unfurled, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the pole the produce of the sun, And knit unsocial climates into one.” Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z He found the club an unsocial place, and he preferred his own battered copies of "Pendennis" and "Henry Esmond" to anything in the club library. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z In general, opossums are unsocial but not intolerant in their behavior. Ecology of the Opossum on a Natural Area in Northeastern Kansas 2011-08-26T02:00:22.450Z This predominance of self, this kinship with the unsocial brute, which shows itself in these germinal animosities, seems to be discoverable also in the unfeelingness of children. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z Nearly all the cottagers keep them, and let them roam about in search of roots and nuts; but they are unsocial creatures, and seldom feed together. The Pleasures of the Country Simple Stories for Young People 2011-08-10T02:00:18.760Z Even a social religion may become so unsocial as to eliminate the Head of society; it may consign Him to the oblivion of forgetfulness. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z The meal which has been slandered as "lazy, lounging, and most unsocial," was far otherwise on the present occasion. The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z I wonder how I ever came to breed such unfeeling, unsocial children. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z The grim and unsocial character of the times is set forth in ‘The Vindication of Christmas,’ a pamphlet illustrated with a woodcut representing Old Christmas welcomed on one hand and forbidden on the other. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z The Dissenter, who declined to pay Church-rates, was an unsocial person. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Man may possess transcendant genius, and be the idol of the populace, and yet be selfish, unsocial and cruel at home. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z For ten minutes or more was this mute, unsocial promenade continued. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z If he should choose to lead an unsocial life, she was not the lady to become the companion of his solitude; and it was not long before he made this discovery. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z He was utterly strange, so odd and unsocial, nobody but his father, who educated him, could have any practicable relation with him. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z The other boys, Medwin tells us, considered him strange and unsocial. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Nobody cared much what became of the jotteryman, for he was an unsocial and disagreeable person; but some one told him what they had seen, and hinted a suspicion of the Lady's intent. The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) 2011-03-05T03:00:28.153Z Richard was not unsocial in his habits; and soon became the husband of a fair-haired wife,—the daughter of a countryman who, like himself, had established commercial relations at Pará. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z "Still unsocial, Lieutenant Rodenberg?" he said, in a tone half of jest, half of reproach. Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z He might be said to be conscientiously unsocial, and therefore immoral; and, though not ungifted, he was an utter failure in human life. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z It strengthens all the inhuman and unsocial impulses of man. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z He was naturally of a grave, but not by any means of an unsocial or gloomy disposition; he would not otherwise have been styled “the Fenelon of Protestantism.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The hunters were not men to sit silent and unsocial when a stranger claimed their hospitality. The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life 2010-12-20T17:12:29.603Z The work is physically and emotionally demanding and often undertaken in unsocial hours. The price of cheap labour 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z But the social meal was now unsocial to a degree. A Little World The porcupines are rather unsocial, and are so lethargic in their movements that the infection took longer to do its full work. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open She was unsocial, timid, fearful of being burdened with cares—the very stuff, though she knew it not, that human life is made of, ay, and human happiness too. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician In the changed atmosphere the uncles and aunts assumed their old unsocial and taciturn ways. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 I fancy," he said, "that you'll admit your chief objection to me has always been my origin, my ridiculous position trotting watchfully behind the most unsocial Miss Planter. The Guarded Heights The satisfaction of felt needs is rendered thereby inevitably social; and in a like manner fear of their frustration cannot be unsocial. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude He was of a surly and unsocial temper. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom They will flock by themselves, and if they become undemocratic and unsocial as a result, that will appear to them the lesser evil. Women as World Builders Studies in Modern Feminism With a hardness and closeness inconsistent with—indeed, opposed to—the charitable spirit, they combined the strength of character and sense of justice without which charity becomes sentimental and unsocial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" During a long winter of close companionship in study and socially unsocial life this feeling disappeared, but with the spring it gradually formed again, like a little spreading cloud in an empty sky. The Book of Susan A Novel Thomas Toby, who disliked Frank’s precise manners and rather unsocial ways, used to call him “Lord I.” Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands Here, therefore, we have an example of an instinct developing itself on certain rare emergencies, causing unsocial species to become gregarious and to venture sometimes even to cross the ocean. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology All this habit of destructiveness is uneconomic in the best sense, unsocial, unmoral. The Holy Earth The social advantage of the family lies in its self-maintenance, its home charities, and its moral and educational force, but if its separate interests are made supreme, it becomes uncharitable and unsocial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Throughout my childhood Old Spotnose continued to be an unsocial and ungracious being. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road And so once more this great nation has demonstrated its ability to govern itself, to protect itself against dangerous and unsocial experiments. Astounding Stories, August, 1931 "Now, Griffith, you know I hate flattery," said Kate; and the next moment came a soft smile, and belied this unsocial sentiment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 "What a tiresome, unsocial companion you are!" his wife often said, at first good-naturedly, then sharply. Edelweiss A Story The heart is wicked, but it is not unsocial—its affections wither in solitariness. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 Lack of companionship has made her unsocial and somewhat unbending. The American Country Girl All of these unsocial tendencies are probably less due to selfishness than to lack of practice in cooperation. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity The tenth grade was an obstreperous bunch of unsocial adolescents. Adolescents Only More than once I have had to apologize for the definitely unsocial attitude of my family. "And That's How It Was, Officer" Some cynical or unsocial character, deeming himself superior to the vulgar vacuity and insipidity, will take no part in the every-day talk which deals so largely in commonplace and truisms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Driven to devise a mode of existence both unsocial and unintellectual, he had stumbled upon strange things in human life. Command The Weakness in Rural Institutions This unsocial streak of distrust and poor social cooperation runs through every sort of institution in rural life. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Only a thick-skulled schoolboy would take such an unsocial attitude! Adolescents Only What a pity that so lovely a girl must be corrupted by such wretched, unsocial, anarchistic notions. The "Genius" This caused him to pass for harsh or unsocial; and I remember having felt a slight sense of alarm the first time I found myself seated beside him. Studies in Contemporary Biography Just as savage man was driven into unsocial conduct, so, as I shall try to show, savage woman was led by the same conditions acting in an opposite direction, into social conduct. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy The unsocial, narrowly sectarian church must go; and our excessive Anglo-Saxon individualism is doomed,—that unsocial streak in rural life. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity And you've told us so often in class about the unstable emotions of adolescents, their tantrums, their unpredictability, their unsocial behavior, their egocentricity and all the rest. Adolescents Only Her mother had no idea of the iron will all this concealed any more than she had of the hard anarchic, unsocial thoughts that were surging in her daughter's brain. The "Genius" They argued that every such man who went through life without laying aside any wealth for those to come, must be selfish by nature and utterly unsocial at heart. The Crow's Nest I would point out the connection of the social ideal with the maternal family, while the home that is solitary and unsocial must be regarded as having arisen from the patriarchal customs. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy The old-fashioned farm management however, which still generally persists, is competitive, and therefore wasteful and unsocial. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity There were to be in this little Elysium of an evening no vain disputes, and no lovers were to mope about unsocially in corners. Old and New London Volume I Alone condemn'd to bear th' unsocial throb Of heartfelt anguish, and corroding grief; Deprived of what, within his homely shed, The poorest peasant in affliction finds, The kind, condoling, comfort of a dear Partaking friend. The Earl of Essex Though rather taciturn, he was not unsocial, and was fond of his pipe in the evening. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 Extremely unsocial and taciturn, he never betrayed emotion and generally was destitute of feeling. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times Here again the rural unsocial streak shows plainly. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity With a sigh the Hermit of Baldpate Mountain sank upon a most unsocial seat and drew his purple splendor close. Seven Keys to Baldpate The passage had been stormy; and a very noble, but rather unsocial fellow-passenger—a fine specimen of the golden eagle—had been sea-sick, and evidently very uncomfortable, for the greater part of the way. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Those bursts of bitterness which we find now and again in his poems, and more frequently in his letters, are assuredly the natural outcome of these unsocial and laborious years. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series But my unsocial intention was airily swept aside by Ernest Lane. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography This custom must have had its influence on social order and must have, in a measure, arrested the tendency of the people to an unsocial and selfish life. History of Human Society But their several re-unions were clouded, gloomy, unsocial affairs; there was a gap in the social circle of the Newschool family, as they met on Thanksgiving day, which all felt, but none hinted at. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes We must therefore characterise the system as unsocial, unlovely, unsympathetic. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology He was a reserved, unsocial man, making the forest his only haunt, and his rifle his only companion. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 And that from which woman must be freed is herself—the unsocial self that has been created by a restricted environment. The Truth About Woman In realizing the Reign of God on earth three recalcitrant forces have to be brought into obedience to God's law: the desire for power, the love of property, and unsocial religion. The Social Principles of Jesus Primitive monogamy adapted to an unsocial savage condition, is incompatible with the social requirements which become more and more imposed upon humanity. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study And it was not from any unsocial habit that he fell into this restraint. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. It was combined with a frankness of sympathy and interest subtly flattering to a man of my unsocial habit of mind. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories Richard was not unsocial in his habits; and soon became the husband of a fair-haired wife,—the daughter of a countryman who, like himself, hadPg 70 established commercial relations at Pará. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine Yet a deeper look shows that this is not true of competition in what we may call its social, as contrasted with its unsocial, aspect. The Ethics of Coöperation Neither their manners and customs nor their institutions showed any marked national peculiarity; they had no unsocial prejudices and they mingled with the people of other countries without the least scruple or repugnance. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses By nature unsocial, by habit, city inbred, artificially taciturn, there came with the primitive happiness of the moment the concomitant primitive desire for companionship. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Though they behold fixed dwellings on every side of them, with settled inhabitants, they nevertheless, proceed in their own way, and continue, for the most part, unsocial, houseless wanderers. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies The impression made upon Wills in these early years was that Fitzjames was a solitary and rather unsocial person. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice The second obstacle, unsocial competition, is for trade what dominance is in politics. The Ethics of Coöperation He becomes an unsocial being and ceases to contribute to the wealth, peace or establishment of society. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science He was a curiously unsocial youth; had few pleasures that he shared with his cousins, but gloated over his own acquisitions quietly like a miser. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill It is not a society because it is an organization of individuals whose relations, if not wholly external, are, at any rate, "unsocial" in so far as there is no consensus. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Moreover, he was still indolent; given to be slovenly in his work, and rather unsocial in his ways, though warmly attached to a few friends. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Family differences, particularly during the time of the fifth Lord Byron, of eccentric and unsocial manners, suffered and even aided the dilapidations of time. Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The lemurs, which share their habitat and resemble them in organization, are markedly unsocial, and are as mentally dull as the apes are mentally quick. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution On the whole, a walk through New York will disappoint an Englishman: there is an apparent carelessness, a laziness, an unsocial indifference, which freezes the blood and disgusts the judgment. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe There emerges a distinction between unsocial and social freedom. Liberalism So long as society includes unsocial elements it must apply motives applicable to the most brutal. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice The American of the back woods has often been described to the English as grossly ignorant, dirty, unsocial, delighting in rum and tobacco, attached to nothing but his rifle, adventurous, restless, more than half savage. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject How incongruous to build up the lofty structure of a faith upon so unethical, unsocial, and cruel a foundation! India, Its Life and Thought Yet there are those who would have us believe that the religion of Christ is an unsocial, selfish religion. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 He was unsocial; somehow that interested me more. The Dominant Dollar The habit of evasion is cowardly as well as unsocial; and nothing so augments conversation as being pleasantly downright; letting people know where to find you. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Magic, as we have seen, tends to become an unsocial and hostile thing, 409and the magician is in later times punished or discountenanced by public opinion. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV She continued her domestic, unsocial habits, always closeted with mademoiselle, or else above in her own room. Germinie Lacerteux If it is unsocial and selfish to take pleasure in that which elevates and moulds character in the image of God, and fits it for angelic society hereafter, then it is truly unsocial and selfish. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 She is the peculiar one, with her love for all kinds of animals about the farm, and her unsocial, stubborn disposition. Nobody's Girl (En Famille) Therewith the discourse died; and the miles that remained were made in unsocial silence. The End of a Coil No prudent man will suffer himself to contract unsocial, or selfish, or miserly habits, or to neglect the ordinary good offices and common charities of life. A Manual of Moral Philosophy The dissenter, who declined to pay church-rates, was an unsocial person. The Toilers of the Field Perhaps his despondent disposition made him unsocial, and kept him from meeting with the other apostles, even to weep with them. Personal Friendships of Jesus Old Queen was an unsocial animal and it was necessary to tie her in the far stall when a strange horse was brought into the barn, as she had a way of treating intruders badly. The Wind Before the Dawn But, as other things improve, this unsocial feeling will dissolve. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) In their domestic relations, the Indians are unsocial and gloomy. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests "Here's de guy," was all he vouchsafed before he went back to the unsocial nook where, afternoon by faithful afternoon, he read away at a fat three-volume life of Alexander Hamilton. The Rose-Garden Husband During the season of incubation and brood rearing the nuthatches retire to the depth of the woods, and are quiet, secretive, and unsocial, seldom betraying their procreant secrets. Our Bird Comrades He emerged from his unsocial shell; he gave out interviews; he relaxed and renewed his youth in jaunt and jest. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man The monotony of the plains is as deadening as is the lack of contact of the mountain valley; and both fields offer fruitful ground for the spread of unsocial types of religious expression. Church Cooperation in Community Life And there really are some remarkable features of conformity even as to this point between the tendencies of Christian monachism and the unsocial sociality of Paganism. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Washington was not unsocial, yet he loved to be away from the great gathering-places of men and the tumults of public life. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. His surly speech, his unsocial temper, spoke of a mind ill at ease,—the remembrance of the past made the present sad. Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages The author has known case after case of peculiar, unsocial, even disliked children, who have come into a new power of coöperation and have become popular with their playmates through the influence of games. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Philippina swept up, while Daniel, as silent and unsocial on going as he had been on coming, left the room. The Goose Man The two neighbors had very little to do with each other after that; and the hermit became still more unsocial and morose. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 We repeat, there is nothing like absolute individuality, except among isolated and unsocial savages. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy His associates often thought him,—and Lamon shares the opinion—not only moody and meditative, but unsocial, cold, impassive; bent on his own ends, and using other men as his instruments. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement Miss Grandon might be queer and unsocial, but she was no niggard. Floyd Grandon's Honor The indulgence and accommodation which his sickness required, had taught him all the unpleasing and unsocial qualities of a valetudinary man. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II People live mostly in lodgings, which is the most unsocial way possible of living: there are no reading-rooms, no cafés, no hops, no places of meeting and introduction. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Her mother was exceedingly fond of her—partly, perhaps, because Nan alone took the trouble to humour all her mysterious nerve-miseries; while her sisters tolerated her, though they thought her unsocial. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols They would regard us as not only unsocial, but selfish; and not only selfish, but proud or misanthropic. The Young Man's Guide He wore his accustomed mask of clay-dust, and smelt powerfully of beer, two pints of which he had consumed in an unsocial hurry at the Ferry Inn on his way. Shining Ferry In minds of a less cultured order, this moral tension ended, no doubt, in a hard unsocial sternness of life. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 And faith! to me, he has been nearly so— A silent and unsocial travelling mate. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry The unsocial smoke was at length ended, and the negotiation began. The Scalp Hunters Thomas Hardin and Joel were awaiting her in the unsocial silence characteristic of their sex when no feminine incentive to conversational brilliancy is at hand. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale "You have lived so much by yourself that you have grown unsocial," said Frank. Frank Merriwell's Bravery The spirit of the pugnacious Theophilus dwelt not in him; nor that eternal love of company which distinguished the other brothers, yet he was by no means unsocial.' Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record His charge against the authors was unquestionably right; but his attack upon the stage itself, exhibited a disposition splenetic almost to misanthropy, and an austerity of principle urged to unsocial ferocity. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 Carleton, hostile to the sordid and unsocial spirit lurking in the bill, vigorously opposed the attempted mutilation of an old historic town, and the isolation of "Beverly Farms." Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman A gentleman, too, as anybody could see, but a gentleman of a singularly unsocial disposition. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Religion, which sacrificed the lives of the men and the honor of the women to the divinity, had in many regards remained on the moral level of unsocial and sanguinary tribes. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism He entered into conversation with Jim while engaged in repairing the clock, but found him a surly, uncommunicative, unsocial man, but Fox was a thoroughly good fellow and did not mind an occasional rebuff. The Expressman and the Detective What an unsocial spirit must the fair mistress of this cottage possess. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 The nervous person is often morose and unsocial—perhaps because he is not understood, perhaps because he falls so short of his own ideals. The Untroubled Mind The unsocial habit of not introducing guests to each other tended to restrain conversation and make the dinner dull and heavy. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Nicholas, the Iron Czar, a man stern, unlovable and unsocial, was dead. The Genius They had grown a little more friendly, though White was very unsocial, and seemed to prefer to keep by himself. The Expressman and the Detective He had a sincere desire to preserve men from the society of unsocial and unsympathizing women; and that was his principal idea. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Now who would suppose that I would ever again see that chipping from a London gaol I told you of—my shipmate of cleanly habit and unsocial nature. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Perpetual absorption in the Transcendent is a human impossibility, and the effort to achieve it is both unsocial and silly. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People The gold-miner was enjoying an unsocial cup of tea at the time, and fortunately heard the distant shots and shouting. Philosopher Jack But, you see, being a bachelor of an unsocial spirit, my doggie and I had been thrown much together in the evenings, and had made the most of our time. My Doggie and I Brady was an indifferent companion, subject to fits of absence of mind,—more unsocial than absence of body. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes The first dignitaries of the republic are emulous to administer them: nothing of low or venal has any place in them; nothing pusillanimous, nothing unsocial and austere. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection If people who are naturally unsocial would only spend as much time and take as much pains as people who are social favorites in making themselves popular, they would accomplish wonders. Pushing to the Front I hate the miser, whose unsocial breast Locks from the world his useless stores. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources He is not one of those unsocial philosophers who put their best thoughts into books to be kept in cold storage for posterity. By the Christmas Fire But, the Radicals will cry, what an unsocial principle! The New Society The first of these concern that unfortunate body of criminal and vicious persons, whose unsocial propensities are constantly straining and endangering the bonds of the social union. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle We have discovered that our modern world, with all its boasted morality and civilization, is actuated, at least in its relations among nations, by very unsocial motives. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History While this is being accomplished the results of the change from handicraft to machine work in the family order must be understood and unsocial elements in that change minimized. The Family and it's Members For the greater part of the time we remained as unsocial as the weather was unpleasant. From Plotzk to Boston Social selection weeds out the unfit, the murderer, the most unsocial man, and says to him: "You must die"; natural selection seeks out the most fit and says: "You alone are to live." The Story of the Mind They are esteemed a bird of much grace and beauty, although silent, and of shy, unsocial habits, and not prolific in the production of their young. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings And since the unsocial character of Thoreau's theory of life has been one of the most serious charges against it, his fine series of thoughts on love and marriage in this volume become peculiarly interesting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 This new demand strikes at the roots of what has been called the "social evil," but which is the most unsocial of all the pathological conditions of modern society. The Family and it's Members He was, after all, in his life only a compendium, on a scale large enough to show their absurdity, of all those unsocial notions which Emerson in other manifestations found it needful to rebuke. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson We find not only the unsocial, the negatively unfit, those whom society puts away with pity in its heart; there are also the antisocial, the class whom we usually designate as criminals. The Story of the Mind No matter what the ignorant or the envious may say, there is nothing really unsocial in a moderate indulgence in the art of auto-comradeship. The Joyful Heart She had that unsocial failing of reserved natures, silence habitually; and her reserve was always at its worst in the presence of the Captain's brilliant daughter. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Frivolity and insipidity are the prevailing characteristics of conversation; and nowhere in Europe, perhaps, does difference of fortune or of station produce more unsocial or illiberal separation. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 The bands of society were every where loosened; and the irregular passions of men were encouraged by speculative principles, still more unsocial and irregular. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell This may be shown to be true even of the pronounced types of unsocial individuals of whom we had occasion to speak at the outset. The Story of the Mind He was decidedly deficient morally—could not see where his life had been an unsocial one, and did not even promise to lead a better one in the future. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Father Francis came up in the evening; but she was cold and unsocial with him as with the rest of us. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel But this careful self-cultivation made his religion self-centered; it was, compared even with the professions of the Protestants and of the Jesuits, personal and unsocial. The Age of the Reformation This has a tendency to make him bitter and unsocial. What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know Now, Protestantism is essentially unsocial, being an extravagant form of individualism. Life of Father Hecker Formerly the people of England were censured, and perhaps properly, with being a sullen, unsocial, cold, unpleasant race of men, and as inconstant as the climate in which they are born. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) The young person was the landlady's daughter, and the girl at the window only gave her one glance, and then turned unsocially away. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel He was a hesitating, awkward youth, and on this account was regarded as unsocial. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters My companions were not unsocial, but the contrary—lively, hospitable, of rank and fortune, and gay far beyond my gaiety. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals It is plain, then, that a religion such as Protestantism, which is unsocial and disintegrating by virtue of its antagonistic forces, can contribute little to the solution of social problems. Life of Father Hecker Argyle.—That history does, in truth, present to the mind a long series of the most direful objects, assassinations, rebellions, anarchy, tyranny, and religion itself, either cruel, or gloomy and unsocial. Dialogues of the Dead Every national religion has a tendency to make man vain, unsocial, and wicked; the first step toward humanity is to permit each one to follow peacefully the worship and the opinions which suit him. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense Now the Bittern is a very unsocial bird, and as he took not the least notice of the new comer, the Pelican could not pick a quarrel with him. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy The unsocial lives come out of unsocial homes. Religious Education in the Family Most of us have regarded that as an unsocial doctrine, yet the growing representation of interests suggests that it is being widely adopted. Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 And he held the strongest opinion that music was always on virtue's side, for he says the only musical passions are the good ones, the bad and unsocial passions being, in his view, essentially unmelodious. Life of Adam Smith It is said by unbelievers that religion is dull, unsocial, uncharitable, enthusiastic, a damper of human joy, a morose intruder upon human pleasure. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. They say, too, that the new race of seamen are unsocial beings who do no good to any town that the steamers run from. The Romance of the Coast It is not only impolite to grab and guzzle, it is unsocial and so unmoral, because it is both a bad example and a distressing sight to others. Religious Education in the Family Of secret unsocial tippling she had as yet no apprehension. Hetty Wesley Let the gloomy monk, sequestered from the world, seek unsocial pleasures in the bottom of his cell! Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 A butterfly or a moth is primarily egoistic and unsocial in the ordinary sense during its entire life-history, until the final reproductive act which has a value to the species. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope The bitter experience of his marriage made him gloomy and unsocial, but in good time he recovered himself a little, and his whole soul turned to his boy and his boy's advancement. The Northern Light What are the dangers of unsocial and selfish lives growing in the home? Religious Education in the Family Then, not to seem indifferent or unsocial, and also, if the truth must be told of her, to gratify a gnawing curiosity, she inquired: "How goes the expected marriage of your niece, madame?" The Lost Lady of Lone Finnerty, however, was a dark, unsocial man, who knew that he was not liked in the country, and who, on his part, paid back to society its hatred of him with interest. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Such a criminal may be unable to control his destiny, and may not be responsible for being what he is, but nevertheless he must pay the penalty for his unsocial heritage by suffering elimination. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope But thou must equally avoid nattering men and being vexed at them, for both are unsocial and lead to harm. Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus He was illiberal, without generosity, unsocial, and soulless, with every attribute of mind to be admired, without one quality of the heart to be loved. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest The further extremity of the cuddy, overhanging the ship's stern, was pierced with three openings, windows or port-holes, according as men or cannon might peer, socially or unsocially, out of them. The Piazza Tales Aloofly though the Deanite lives, he is not altogether an unsocial being. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 Within these fifty years, in a village a little to the west of Glasgow, lived an old woman, who was not poor, but had a very irritable temper, and was unsocial in her habits. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century Now, Lady Hurstmonceux was not naturally cold, or proud, or unsocial; but as surely as brains can turn, and hearts break, and women die of grief, she was crazy, heart-broken, and dying. Ishmael Or, In the Depths There had been no visiting at Pinewood for a long time, because of the want of a mistress and of the unsocial habits of Mr. Burt. Trumps The ethics prevailing in regard to it are distinctly personal and unsocial, and result in the unique isolation of the household employee. Democracy and Social Ethics She calls the members of the society proud, haughty, and exclusive, and denounces the city where these people live as pedantic, disagreeable, and unsocial. Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls His head was, for the moment, full of unsocial thoughts; but whether the impressions created by Mr. Baggs were likely to persist in a mind so young, looked doubtful. The Spinners Compared with this frame of mind the teaching of the Buddha is not unsocial, unpractical and mysterious but human, business-like and clear. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Beckford was eccentric and unsocial: he lived for some time in Portugal, but returned to England, and built a luxurious palace at Bath. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The hills are as usual barren, all the shrubs are thorny, and all the plants unsocial, never coalescing into any thing like groups. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Perhaps this may be explained by the contrast between the warmth of Scottish character, and the saturnine and unsocial disposition of the English. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy But to be unsociable is not to be unsocial. The Spinners But assuming a relation permanent enough to be called marriage, the man was still, as compared with the woman, unsettled and unsocial. Sex and Society He who decries created work, municipal lodging-houses, bread-lines, or even sentimental charity, in the face of the winter's destitution, has an unsocial soul. An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker In spite of his unsocial tendencies, he drove and dined out with his sister-in-law, for many nice people chose this winter to remain at their country-houses. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurled To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months It is far too little attended to in England in any class, though, from acting as a continual corrective to selfish and unsocial affections, it is peculiarly requisite in all. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 It is an unsocial procedure and does not persist in a growing society, for it involves retaliation and blood-feud. Sex and Society If the human race is unsocial it will perish anyway. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family My life had made me unsocial—and out of the Nazareth of that house I never looked for any good to come. Queed Before 1789 a man called himself an economist; in 1815 he was a liberal; the next party will call itself the social party—perhaps because it is so unsocial. Mercadet A Comedy in Three Acts Frivolity and insipidity are the prevailing characters of conversation; and nowhere in Europe, perhaps, does difference of fortune or station produce more unsocial and illiberal separation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 So savage and unsocial a quality is ambition. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II If it has not become unsocial—and it does not display any such tendency, but only the use of such impulses in mistaken directions—then a group necessity like reproduction can be met. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family But her mind fastened at once on the vulgar, hopeful fact that the unsocial sociolologist wanted a job. Queed You said something about sheep the other day; well, a sheep is a solitary and unsocial animal to a city-man with money to invest. Gordon Keith The Commons will not have the melancholy unsocial glory of having acted a solitary part in a noble, but imperfect work. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) For the most part, people who live in cities are not moved by oratory; they are unsocial, unimaginative, unemotional. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Luther, Calvin, and Knox, have been represented as unsocial, morose fanatics, and gloomy bigots. The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony His love of solitude was probably sincere, his surliness was his breeding, and he extracted from his painful, unsocial habitudes the peculiar poetry which suits with hardship. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 But beside these household Dubbies, there are others of a more gloomy and unsocial nature, that keep about lonely barns at a distance from any dwelling-house, or about ruins and old bridges. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Still his temper is by no means sour: fond of solitude, he is nevertheless far from being unsocial. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England We did not like him; he was unsocial. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians I described her as a soldier with all the faults of that unsocial character. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 He was a reticent, moody man, and with his aged housekeeper and myself, led a solitary and unsocial life in the old rambling house which had been his father's before him. Strange Visitors Briefly it may be remarked, that Jesus looked upon wealth as tending oftentimes to foster an unsocial spirit. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries It could not be otherwise, for genius is dictatorial without knowing it, obstructive without wishing to be, intolerant unawares, and unsocial because it can not help it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great It is not the isolated act of heroism that makes a man moral, or the single unsocial act that makes a man immoral. How to Teach Many foreign states have entered into liberal agreements with us, while nations which are far off and which heretofore have been unsocial and exclusive have become our friends. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson The Jews were allowed the exercise of their unsocial and exclusive faith. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History The position of Crusoe on his desert isle is so eminently unsocial that he welcomes the black man Friday and quivers at the human quality in the famed footprints in the sand. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities In the other case, the native who depends upon his single arm, and, requiring not the aid of society, is indifferent about it, but prowls along, a gloomy, unsettled, and unsocial being. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 The little that they saw of the Fellatas in Yarriba, soon convinced them that in all things they were much, very much superior to the loveless and unsocial proprietors of the soil. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa We may be sure that the ladies found their dinner a pleasant one, and that the writer of the note was neither a stiff nor unsocial host. George Washington, Volume II The inflexible and intolerant zeal of the Christians, purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit of the Jewish religion. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History It takes a long time for the unsocial or the unfriendly man to make himself personally agreeable to strangers, or, in fact, to very many people, whether strangers or not. Analyzing Character Still the memory of that blow rankled in Guy's mind, and made him unsocial and ill at ease. Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys It was evident that he was a stranger, for he spoke to no one, although it is not easy to be unsocial at Quantuck. Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book The new-comer, a man of about fifty years of age, and evidently, from his dress and gait, a sea-faring person, was as reserved and unsocial as his landlord. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney Its pleasures are not of an unsocial character; for every visitor, high or low, learned or illiterate, may be fascinated with the fragrance and beauty of a garden. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden If the unsocial and unfriendly are deceived in regard to themselves, no less so are the social and the friendly. Analyzing Character She had a pride, to maintain which--and a poverty, to conceal which--she felt to be necessary to her self-respect; and this made her of necessity a trifle unsocial in her own castle. The Grandissimes The obligation to serve in the militia forced them to abandon their indolent and unsocial habits and appear in the towns on Sundays for drill. The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation Taylor was a large man, highly intellectual, and rather unsocial. Death Valley in '49 There must be a plan, and by law the will of the majority must be imposed upon the unsocial few. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II If you know any unfriendly, unsocial men, look at the backs of their heads and see how short they are. Analyzing Character As to the Englishman's Socialism, he is, by nature, the most unsocial animal alive. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) His gentle life presents very little of dramatic incident: he was a reserved, somewhat unsocial boy, greatly devoted to study and to the reading of poetry. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes It necessitates a monotonous life, and it is an unsocial position. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters We proceeded for many miles in this unsocial manner; unsocial, for it precludes all conversation. A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 The politeness, ease, and conviviality of the Annapolians form a strong and pleasing contrast to the behaviour of the stiff, gloomy and unsocial bigots I was lately surrounded with in the Jerseys. Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. Released from this unsocial companion, he soon arrived at a French post, where the sentinel of the advanced guard requested the honour of his permission to ask for his passports. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832 An unsocial reserve lies on the surface of English character, and the love of privacy, or at least of a retirement which can be closed and expanded at will, is an extensive and deep-seated feeling. A Visit to the United States in 1841 "A ball, without females, would, at least, be thought an unsocial amusement, with us uninstructed people of terra firma." The Red Rover Thus this measure, though administratively a saving of expense, proved unsocial. A History of China Yet, unsocial as he was, everyone loved him. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction The unsocial and lawless state of nature is a philosophical fiction which has never existed; men have always been social. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time His anxiety to "get in and share," made him, according to Johnson, an "unsocial" companion. Samuel Johnson So I left him alone, and glanced furtively and fearfully at him, hoping that he had not divined any thoughts; thus we lived on unsocially together. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest The monks were divided into two classes: the Cnobites, who lived under a common and regular discipline; and the Anachorets, who indulged their unsocial, independent fanaticism. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 In the admission of new citizens, that unsocial people was actuated by the selfish vanity of the Greeks, rather than by the generous policy of Rome. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 In the case of the social passions excess is more readily condoned, in the case of the unsocial and selfish ones, defect; hence we judge the over-sensitive more leniently than the over-vengeful. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time THE title of this chapter might imply that there is an unsocial side to Edison. Edison, His Life and Inventions So unsocial and wild-beast-like is the nature of ambition and cupidity. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans As I knew him to be of a rather sullen unsocial disposition, I said nothing to him, but proceeded on my way. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery He has a surly, unsocial disposition and uncertain temper, but can be very polite when he chooses. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Experience shows that unsocial, unsympathetic, vicious men are miserable; that love to society is the richest source of happiness; that even pity for the suffering of others occasions more pleasure than pain. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time There is another competition, pernicious, immoral, unsocial, a jealous competition which hates and which kills,—it is egoism. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery He tended always to destroy the horde by his unsocial acts. Before Adam "I had a wish to break this Mr. Birch of his unsocial habits, and gave him a call this morning," he said. The Spy To the genuine Roman, the state religion might not be true, but it was part of the civic life, and therefore its rejection was unsocial and disloyal. Josephus He had a somewhat surly and unsocial temper, disdaining all flattery, and refusing to be caressed, but his attention to my commands and interest will never again be equalled by any of the canine race. The Dog When certain rare emergencies occur, which render it necessary for the insects to migrate, a contingent instinct develops itself, and renders an unsocial species gregarious. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 His silence was never unsocial; it was bland as a natural hush; one felt one's self included in it, not left out. The Greater Inclination Shelley during these years was unsocial, much alone, fantastic, wandered much by moonlight communing with stars and moon, was attached to an older man. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene And besides, there are now and then with me unsocial moments when I fancy I like to be alone. Lord Kilgobbin An unsocial man can by no possibility lead a true life. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays His manners were apparently rough, but not unsocial. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 I am an unsocial being, Sir Henry, and, from my habits, not likely to be popular. A Love Story Let us hope that on their lonely journeys they conscientiously obeyed the law, though we can but suspect that the one unsocial smoke may have been a long one. Sabbath in Puritan New England I performed my duties regularly with the crew, and for the first two days led an unsocial, almost a solitary life, in the midst of a large ship's company. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale He was for retreat to the Isthmus; he was for defending the Peloponnese, because in the Peloponnesus was the unsocial selfish Sparta, and leaving the rest of Hellas to the armament of Xerxes. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance She lived to say, many years after, that if the time were to pass again, she would not comply with such unsocial injunctions.' Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 Delmé felt it would be unsocial were he alone to look grave; and although many foreboding thoughts crowded on him, he too seemed to be happy. A Love Story Begin the morning," he says, "by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. Why Worry? C�sar paid no attention to these suggestions and continued to lead an unsocial life. Cæsar or Nothing Purgatory is the social mirror of China, wherein the consequences of all unsocial acts are pictured in such a vivid way as to deter the individual from committing them. Buddhism and Buddhists in China For such a one to mope away his life in this unsocial and savage state was deeply to be deplored. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker In the regiment he is considered proud and unsocial; and indeed it was your brother's friendship that appeared to retain him in our circle. A Love Story I do assure you the warm, tender south winds blow over us here in the unsocial state no less than the chilly east. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis The attempt is more than unsocial; it is suicidal. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly. The Crayon Papers He had lived there many years, and everybody knew him, but nobody liked him,—a cunning, foxy, grabbing old rascal; unsocial, suspicious, unutterably mean. A Traveller in Little Things She does not do harm for harm's sake, nor even directly to gratify spite, greed, or other purely unsocial and detestable passions. The Celibates Sommers accepted gratefully the concession she made to his unsocial mood. The Web of Life They are wholly sexless, unsocial and futile beings, the negation of every masculine or feminine virtue. Old Calabria When it was said that he was unsocial and cynical, it was forgotten that these very remarks were enough to make him so. Archibald Malmaison He stared out of the window at the exploitation roads of suburbs, and rows of houses all very much alike, either emphatically and impatiently to let or full of rather busy unsocial people. The History of Mr. Polly By reason of his isolated and unsocial life he was uncouth, unlettered, out of touch with culture, without opportunities for self-improvement, even if his bitter toil had left him energy or time for it. Equality From what has just been said one might conclude that the spirit of Hamsun is fundamentally unsocial. Pan A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving. Mankind in the Making In the first place, the Socialists had condemned the army system as unsocial. The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion There was a short, very black, and somewhat bowlegged negro man on the place, named Israel Bonaparte, who lived in a little cabin by himself, and was noted for his unsocial disposition, and his taciturnity. The Late Mrs. Null What a shame for a man to live alone as he did, and get into such unsocial ways! Between Whiles This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life Three years is a long time to spend in one ship, and to be at swords' points with its Captain and Lieutenants during such a period, must be very unsocial and every way irksome. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War All this is absolutely opposed to our present system, but our present system is wasteful, artificial, illogical, unsocial, and therefore vicious. Towards the Great Peace The hard, cold, unsocial, unsympathetic, wooden, scheming, selfish man is the only one who seems to attain his end, since he can bide his time,--wait for somebody to fancy him. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers Now the farmer, partly from isolation and partly from absorption in labor, is the most unsocial man in New England. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 His habits became even more unsocial than before. The Evil Guest He was a third estate, dry, repulsive, and unsocial to all. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia He figures as intent upon his worldly interests, accumulating a massive fortune, and spending lavishly upon the building of Castle Goring; in his old age, penurious, unsocial, and almost churlish in his habits. Adonais But thou must equally avoid flattering men and being vexed at them, for both are unsocial and lead to harm. Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Whether she will ever learn to control her actions I do not know, but rebelliousness from a fueling that one is too good to be governed by normal standards is not only arrogant and unsocial. Nonsenseorship At length the loud blast of a bugle was heard at no great distance from the unsocial fellow-travellers. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Wanting it, what savage unsocial nights must our ancestors have spent, wintering in caves and unillumined fastnesses! The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia "You were so unsocial to-day she would not come with us." Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People The man who lies, cheats, and steals, or who indulges in other unsocial conduct sets himself against his group and places his group at a disadvantage as compared with other groups. Sociology and Modern Social Problems In this unsocial manner they travelled on until the point was reached where they were to separate for the evening. The Betrothed Yet they serve to break down isolations of sympathy, all sorts of physical and intellectual sluggishness and the development of unsocial preoccupations of many sorts. A Modern Utopia Some of Thoreau's philosophy is impractical and too unsocial, but it aims to discover the underlying basis of enchantment. History of American Literature Our bird is smaller, and is much more solitary and unsocial. Locusts and Wild Honey What they objected to were his "glum looks and unsocial ways," as they termed them. His Sombre Rivals At least, I'm sure Max would be very much annoyed with me for unsocially introducing a plutocratic traitor into the bosom of the fold.' Philistia He fails because he wants too much, because he is unsocial at heart, and does not understand that life means giving as well as taking. Celibates Come man, cheer up, and get rid of this sour and unsocial humour. The Fortunes of Nigel I left New York in disgust, and, going West, I buried myself in the forest, where I built a rude cabin, and there I have lived since, an unsocial, solitary life. Try and Trust The occupants of the two unpretending dwellings had the respect of the community; but from their rather unsocial ways could not be popular. His Sombre Rivals At the evening meal the farm hands and negro house-servants remarked in Fownes not merely his customary unsocial silence, but an abstraction more obvious than usual. Janice Meredith To their thinking, he was a proud, stuck-up, unsocial young cub, whom to rob was a pleasure, and to ruin would be a delight. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil A man who knew nothing of suffering would be incapable of tenderness towards his fellow-creatures and ignorant of the joys of pity; he would be hard-hearted, unsocial, a very monster among men. Emile A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Pardon me, Mr. Graham, for my unsocial abstraction. His Sombre Rivals He hated people who were unsocial and averse to dining out, and who departed from the ways of living common among English country gentlemen. The American Senator Why, there is such a desolate, unsocial feeling I should not live out half my days if I had to remain in such a place. Dawn People sometimes misjudge him, for he is rather old-fashioned in manner and plain in speech, and may seem unsocial, because he does not seek society. Work: a Story of Experience Fully absorbed as she was in showing attentions to her more favoured guests, Mrs. Tudor did not perceive the cold, uncomfortable, unsocial feeling that had crept over the rest of her company. Home Scenes and Home Influence; a series of tales and sketches He was not generally liked, for his mood appeared unsocial, and a repelling arrogance was sometimes felt in his talk. Born in Exile She loved best of all the animals, that were single and unsocial as she herself was. Women in Love Yet they serve to break down isolations of sympathy, all sorts of physical and intellectual sluggishness and the development of unsocial preoccupations of many sorts... First and Last Things The dead man had been a churlish, unsocial fellow, while alive, and no favourite; and now that he was no more, little thought was bestowed upon him. Omoo An expert at chirography would doubtless have distinguished in the lines traces of a violent temperament, of a character stern and unsocial. The Master of the World Separated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an unsocial habit of manners, and imagines in others the jealousy she creates in herself. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis Everything made things difficult for him here: his external self; his character, ever so little shy and unsocial; his temperament, which was made for solitude. Fabre, Poet of Science It would mean also an unsocial because ostracized home. First and Last Things But surely there need be no wonder in that, since you have been travelling; and clearly from all you have been saying, in unsocial countries. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance Men were still monstrosities to him, still deformities, and in his sober moments he had no desire to be like them, but their strange and unsocial and uncanny construction was no longer offensive to him. Those Extraordinary Twins His dissociation from any but his nearest neighbors made him unsocial, narrow-minded, bigoted, and suspicious. The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics However unsocial in the proper sense of the word, he by no means lacked company in these Oxford days. The Patrician They think I am getting sour and unsocial. I and My Chimney In the patriotism, the too often unamiable and unsocial patriotism of our forefathers, lay the secret at once of William's weakness and of his strength. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 In spite of our unsocial pride, we admitted that they were great nations, and that they could boast of men eminent in the arts of war and peace. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 The old farmer leads a lonely existence, and ceases to meet his compeers except on Sunday; nobody consults him; his experience has been monotonous, and his age is apt to grow unsocial. Oldport Days Remote rural populations are given to strong prejudices, especially against those who are thought to be well-off from an oversaving spirit; and who, worse still, are unsocial. He Fell in Love with His Wife "This is easily explained," he said; "do you remember the tall, slender man whom we observed on board the 'Campania' as being rather unsocial and taciturn?" That Mainwaring Affair It reminds me that one of the arguments against this motion is that the Jews are an unsocial people, that they draw close to each other, and stand aloof from strangers. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 He is not necessarily guilty of an unsocial offense; he simply tries to overturn a certain political order which may itself be anti-social. Anarchism and Other Essays The really unsocial woman is in great danger of becoming also un-christian. Female Suffrage: a Letter to the Christian Women of America In addition, he evinced some disposition to rebel against his commander, and was unsocial with his equals. Paul and Virginia He had always been unsocial with me, never responding to my attempts to caress him, but now he leaped into my arms and licked my face. The Last of the Plainsmen But what if it were true that the Jews are unsocial? Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Lost existences these, blighted and crushed by cruel, unsocial environment. Anarchism and Other Essays Both husband and wife were equally happy in the enjoyment of their new life, and equally unsocial in taking no measures whatever to publish it to others. The Queen of Hearts What was the attraction which drew the unsocial student to an evening party? The Black Robe The sullen or surly person, chronically ill-tempered and hostile, is regarded as unsocial and dangerous, whereas the most lovable persons are quick to anger and quick to repent. The Foundations of Personality But that the Jews would be unsocial members of the civil community, if the civil community did its duty by them, has never been proved. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Glaucus was too happy to be unsocial; he longed to cast off the exuberance of joy that oppressed him. Last Days of Pompeii His eye brightened as it now detected those strange and unsocial animals venturing forth through a hole in the wall, and, darkening the moonshine on the floor, steal fearlessly towards him. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes If he had only remained in the gallery, he might have become acquainted with the form of persuasion used to induce a man so unsocial as Romayne to accept an invitation. The Black Robe During the course of his political life he had been so generally feared that he was thought unsocial, and it is not difficult to explain the causes of that opinion. Vendetta But still, unsocial in his pleasures as in his graver pursuits, and brooking neither superior nor equal, he admitted few to his companionship, save the willing slaves of his profligacy. Last Days of Pompeii |
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