| 单词 | unworldly |
| 例句 | Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady’s will, but the unworldly Marches only said... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Dear Amy: A dear friend recently passed away, leaving a very unworldly 32-year-old daughter with a great deal of money and property. Perspective | Ask Amy: Young woman should be taught timeless skills 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Seen as unworldly by his family, David is something of a recluse, a passive witness to life’s concert. Remembering a Lover Who Never Revealed Her True Nature 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z He’s the kind of unworldly fellow who loves working for a company called DHX because the uniforms are more colorful than FedEx’s. Theater Review: ‘Handle With Care,’ With Carol Lawrence 2013-12-17T23:02:52Z But adult life, of course, is a series of compromises and negotations, and I find the moral insistence of these songs to be wholly admirable, if unworldly. My favourite album: The Modern Lovers ? The Modern Lovers 2011-08-10T15:00:25Z Hardworking but unworldly, Soutine made things difficult for historians by destroying his own paintings when he didn’t like them, leaving others unsigned and never keeping a diary. Steeped in Blood, Soutine’s Work Revels in Life, Not Death 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Linnell had always been quick enough to announce Blake a genius and to support him in his unworldly splendour. Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z Serafina was actually quite cute: she was so naive and unworldly. Angel Dust by Sarah Mussi - review 2013-04-02T08:00:00Z Who wants a lifelong companion so stiflingly unworldly – a de facto nincompoop, an eternal child? Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z Diana is erudite but unworldly, witty but never ironic, supremely self-confident and utterly mystified by the modern world. Review: ‘Wonder Woman’ Is a Blockbuster That Lets Itself Have Fun 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Back in the 60s and 70s, to a young, unworldly provincial boy, a trip to the centre of town used to be a thing of wonder. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Not all of us at that time despised the BFI "as a ghetto peopled by unworldly intellectuals". Letters: Our commitment to the arts is rock solid 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Juliet changes from an unworldly child, both bashful and playful, into an awakened sensualist whose violence of feeling initiates their wedding and impels the tragic decisions that lead to death. 4 Buzzy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Debuts, 1 Fainthearted Production 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z In Joseph P. McCarthy's accomplished, endearing turn, Jimmy is an unworldly bumpkin and class clown. 'The Pitmen Painters': Miners discover their inner artist 2012-04-30T19:59:04Z So I thought, how funny it would be to have an unworldly vicar in a similar position. 'Vicars' lives are extraordinary' 2010-12-19T00:05:14Z She was convincing and also charming because the character was too, as well as fierce and unworldly. ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Review: It’s Not About What We Deserve 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z We we knew it had to be something unworldly and odd. ArtsBeat Blog: Don't Stop Screaming: The 'Glee' Guys Introduce Their 'American Horror Story' 2011-10-03T03:10:29Z When she met him at a party in her home town of Chicago, she found him a charmingly shy and unworldly urban bumpkin. The truth behind the legend of Lou Gehrig 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z For this meandering tale of unworldly Canadians on vacation in Paris, which opened on Thursday night at the Kitchen, a marvelous, fanciful set has been devised by Rae Powell. Review: In Sheila Heti’s New Play, Canadians Lose Themselves in Paris 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z You could hear it, feel it through your shoes, sense the unworldly sound waves graze against the goose bumps even then rising on your skin. On Top of Mount Etna, a Lesson in Lava (and Luck) 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z On the other side is Anastasia, unworldly, impulsive and confused about her own pleasures and desires. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s immediately clear that something weird, even unworldly, is going on with him. Review | Best known for her role on ‘Downton Abbey,’ Catherine Steadman is making a splash as an author 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z I was so deluded and stupid, and weirdly unworldly, when I set out on this project. How Rekindling a Love for Tennis Turned Into a Raging Fire 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Crimp transposes the novel’s archetypes of unworldly, vulnerable woman and controlling, predatory man into a shifting, contemporary, aged-up key. How She Survives: Strategies for Women on London Stages 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Karol Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3, though written against the backdrop of Polish cultural assertion, sounds like an unworldly hallucination fueled by readings of Persian poetry. Composers Struck by Homeland Fever 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z It is her classic role, which she immortalised at the age of 35 and which won her the best actress Oscar: imperious, haughty, vulnerable, unworldly, romantic, intellectual and with a distinctive hold over men. Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Though they are well into their 30s and measure the span of their relationship in years, they seem as shy and unworldly as children, passive-aggressively resisting the demands and enticements of adulthood. | 'The Future': Is That All There Is? Milking Life for More 2011-07-28T22:44:40Z She would roam its 150 acres, thinking up Tolkienesque tales about all the fairies and unworldly creatures that, she believed, lurked in the woods. Never mind the birdlore: the new face of folk music 2013-01-27T16:59:01Z With its bright yellow breast and even brighter yellow stripe on its black bill, it looks unworldly against the brooding green backdrop; it looks like something out of a dream. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z This is partly because, unlike the boys, we have first been allowed to know Martha as she was — as a book-loving, playful and utterly unworldly girl. 'Liberian Girl’: A Harrowing Descent Into War 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z It's just making me feel very old and unworldly. TV review: Hattie and The Joy of Teen Sex 2011-01-19T22:30:00Z Defying stereotypes of ultra-Orthodox women as unworldly, Feinsod said she has run seven marathons and biked 100 miles around Lake Tahoe. Netflix Series Stirs Debate About the Lives of Ultra-Orthodox Women 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z One reason some graduates of elite universities look unworldly is that those universities still try — admittedly with mixed results — to uphold a distinctive code of values. ‘Excellent Sheep,’ by William Deresiewicz 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z But she might have been like that anyway: it's not just that she looks so young, but there's also that slightly unworldly air that hangs around her. Felicitations 2011-02-20T00:04:06Z An unworldly young woman named Deb Bought a teddy bear straight from Zagreb. Style Invitational Week 1417: Dead Letters, our annual obit-poem contest 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Her favorite character is Stella, an unworldly little girl in pigtails who is totally irrepressible and uninhibited — the Id of Haiti. The TV Watch: ‘Regards Croisés’ Offers Haiti Needed Comic Relief on TV 2012-07-10T20:51:35Z He’s so deeply tucked into the bosom of familiarity, so insular and unworldly, that he’s never been on a plane. | 'Cedar Rapids': An Innocent Abroad, at a Convention in Iowa 2011-02-10T22:17:34Z Mar Kimball was a devoutly religious, unworldly young girl raised in the insular Mormon culture. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z One is astounded that a figure so unworldly can be delivered with such absolute, unironic conviction – you leave the movie remembering almost nothing except her performance. Amy Adams: 'David O Russell said to me: "You are so not the princess type"' 2012-11-22T18:21:30Z He is the unworldly clergyman tasked with setting up a mission for “fallen women” in Edwardian London’s East End. Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z And later, at movie nights and slumber parties, I tracked the kind of women men fall in love with — a mannequin, a mermaid, an unworldly sex worker. Someday My Prince Will Leave Me for Someone More Low-Key 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Chesterton's conscious aim in writing the Father Brown stories was to subvert the misconception that priests must be unworldly innocents ignorant of the world. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z When the CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” had its premiere in 2007, the lead characters were unworldly, “Star Trek”-obsessed university scientists. The TV Watch: Nerds Get Their Due on ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Veep’ 2014-04-04T00:00:25Z From the outset we are in good hands: Roberta may be naïve and unworldly, but through her sixth sense – she sees people's hidden colours or auras – we come to understand her prescience, her uncanny intuition. The Beloved by Annah Faulkner – review by Kristina Olsson 2013-06-18T05:28:36Z When Conflict Spills Over Cloistered Walls The worldly and the unworldly collide in “Apparition,” Vincent Sandoval’s meditative drama about the limits of faith and the corruption of innocence. Movie Review: In ‘Apparition,’ a Philippine Drama, Nuns Face Civil Strife 2013-07-09T18:21:34Z But as played by Ms. Hecht, Julie possesses an unworldly worldliness that Holly’s creator, Truman Capote, would have appreciated. Theater Review: ‘The Assembled Parties,’ at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater 2013-04-18T02:00:35Z But unworldly thigh strength hid beneath Judy’s soft pelt, and she immediately bounded off, leaving deep purple scratches on my wrists. Keeping This Fluffy, Fragile Beast Alive 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The multimillion-selling books tell the story of an unworldly college student engaging in an unusual romantic relationship with a wealthy young businessman. 'Social Network' team to produce 'Fifty Shades' 2012-07-10T03:18:08Z “Spin Me Round,” directed by Jeff Baena, is a kooky romp where unworldly travelers trip over their own fantasies of Europe. ‘Spin Me Round’ Review: Eat Pray Lust 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z It's a freewheeling social-realist caper – unworldly and at times almost childlike. Cannes 2012: The Angels' Share – review 2012-05-21T19:30:02Z Cappadocia: The Sedona of Turkey, it’s full of unworldly rocky spires, rock formations where ancient people made their homes and churches. Take a budget-friendly bus tour of Turkey 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z In England, writers tend to be pale, unworldly creatures, with hunched shoulders, a lump on their noses where their spectacles sit, and a tendency to feel the cold. David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z And his admiration for these unworldly intellectuals, who seem at first to be his kind of people, inspires his appreciation of traditional India, which for him is Hindu India. A Pakistani-Indian Journalist Attempts to Rediscover His Roots 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z An educated man who gives her the equivalent of home schooling, Will is a skilled survivalist, and not so unworldly that he doesn’t organize periodic forays into town, where the grid dispenses needed benefits. ‘Leave No Trace’ Review: Love Under Siege 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z On TV, intentionally or otherwise, The Nanny always had a slightly unworldly quality to it, and a sense of self-awareness that drifted back and forth from total sincerity to flat-out fourth-wall-breaking. Sitcoms that should and shouldn't be turned into Broadway musicals 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z This quality, uncommon in a politician, hardly guarantees that its holder will reach the desired destination, but it made Thatcher at once ruthless and earnest to an almost unworldly degree. Seeing Margaret Thatcher Whole 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But that day, as we drove up the eastern, rocky shore of the bay, Tomales seemed unworldly, like a dream of the seaside. Ode to the Western oyster 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z We know by his spectacles that Tim is unworldly in all the things in which Hawk is very well versed. Review: 'Fellow Travelers' melodramatically charts a gay love story and politics 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z “His skill and knowledge and ability to kind of riff on basically any issue was unworldly,” he said. Matt Gaetz, now a well-known disrupter, honed his brash style in Florida 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z You see in her depiction the woman described in Charlotte’s words; this Emily is indeed unworldly, uncomfortable around strangers, struggling to comply with what society expects of her. ‘Emily’ review: The power and fire of the gifted, strange Brontë sister 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The King is presented as old fashioned and rather unworldly. Spare review: The weirdest book ever written by a royal 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z After so many years without large-scale urban protests in China, and then the isolation of the Covid years, the experience — or even watching it online from a distance — was almost unworldly for some. After Xi’s Coronation, a Roar of Discontent Against His Hard-line Politics 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Strangely, the weakest link in “Sharp Stick” might be Sarah Jo — a naif so innocent and so unworldly that she feels less like a fully realized human than a symbol. Review | Lena Dunham’s ‘Sharp Stick’ has a point to make. But what is it? 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z All that is winged, even the grating corn crake, is painted with a mystical birder’s unworldly rose-colored pianistic glasses. Review: The crazy genius of playing Messiaen's 13 bird-inspired piano solos at L.A.'s Audubon Center 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z That unworldly image he saw in the sky the morning of Sept. 11 took on new meaning as he healed: “It didn’t dawn on me until later that the vision was Lauren.” 20 years after 9/11: ‘We will live with the scars’ forever 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The pain that you’re experiencing is unworldly and then all of a sudden, I’m holding her and it’s just like all the pain goes away. Inside the first 40 days of postpartum motherhood with Hike Clerb's Evelynn Escobar 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z The “Witches” nickname was coined by Soviet journalists after the team seemingly appeared out of nowhere with unworldly skills. Before the Tokyo Olympics, watch these 5 revealing movies set at the 1964 games 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z At 25 Cline felt “unformed,” the product of what she calls a “very unworldly” upbringing. Emma Cline was a literary darling, then a target. With 'Daddy,' she takes aim 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Employing the antenna’s exquisite sensitivity, they tuned in to the enigmatic clockwork blips of distant pulsars, discerning in their changing rhythms secrets of unworldly physics. A Rip in the Fabric of Interstellar Dreams 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z But it ended during Donald Trump’s third year, a time when an isolationist, unworldly president began to see regional interests through a much narrower lens. US isolationism leaves Middle East on edge as new decade dawns 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z It ended with Trump pontificating on his version of events—for more than an hour—that were often unworldly, occasionally unwise, and sometimes just plain wacky. Trump’s Weird Whoppers at the G-7 Summit 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z “The stress they put on him — it’s unworldly,” one of Utley’s managers told The Verge. Facebook moderator dies after viewing horrific videos, others share disturbing incidents: report 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z “The stress they put on him — it’s unworldly,” one of Utley’s managers told me. Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Its pejorative use for those “who oppose attacks on refugee homes,” the jury wrote, showed that “tolerance and helpfulness are generally defamed as naïve, stupid and unworldly.” In Matteo Salvini’s Italy, Good Is Bad and ‘Do-Gooders’ Are the Worst 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z In 1992, she became an unlikely icon to a new generation of fans with her portrayal of Edina's unworldly mother in the internationally successful Absolutely Fabulous. Obituary: June Whitfield 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z My guide wasn’t unworldly; he’d studied for three years in Pakistan and spoke Urdu and English. Opinion | The Humanity We Can’t Relinquish 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z To me she said, “He was passionate, he was bookish, he was pure. He was very, very unworldly. I was worldly, compared to him.” The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z I left St. Paul, Minn., for Los Angeles at 21 and quickly dropped my Midwestern accent, along with what I judged as my unworldly, artless past. A Father’s Lesson: Keep the Spirit Level 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Halep started extending points, sometimes with unworldly retrievals—a remarkable fifty-five points in the match lasted for nine shots or more. Simona Halep Becomes a Major Champion at the French Open 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z One day, as the morning’s first colors seeped across the horizon, my guide and I drove through a narrow box canyon and, when the road gave out, scrambled up on foot to an unworldly silence. The Heart-Clearing Stillness of the Mongolian Countryside 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Yet Pio is also an unworldly kid who panics in the confined space of an elevator or in a high-speed train. Neorealist 'A Ciambra' captures a boy's life in a changing Italy The film makes him reliant on Forster, who does all the negotiation, while Dickens is in a whirl of unworldly desperation. Did Dickens invent Christmas? No, but he did reinvent the novel 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z There is something unearthly about Spinoza’s thought; similarly, there was something unworldly about the man himself. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The Paris and San Bernardino attacks persuaded other candidates that a shift to life-or-death issues of national security would expose Trump as unworldly and unknowledgeable. One year, two races: Inside the Republican Party’s bizarre, tumultuous 2015 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z These little plates jingle in the wind, which gives them a strange, unworldly quality. Why K2 Brings Out the Best and Worst in Those Who Climb It 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Rupert Goold, who directed Richard II, said he picked Whishaw for his unworldly quality: “I wanted someone who had an ‘otherness’ – someone who was poetically distant in their soul.” Ben Whishaw: impish star steals the show, even from James Bond | Observer profile 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The fog was all in Washington, an ideological and political fog protecting the last two months of President Obama’s re-election campaign, and reflecting his unworldly view that the global terrorist threat was receding. Why Benghazi Still Makes a Difference 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Never has there been a series that attempts to tackle the fanciful or unworldly with such aplomb that you almost forget that dragons are not real. 6 excuses you no longer have to avoid 'Game of Thrones' 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z But proposals for rebuilding Gaza’s economy seem unworldly in present circumstances. When and how will it end? 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “We had to get high to get by; because no human had that kind of unworldly stamina and enthusiasm.” What Salespeople Can Learn From Rock N' Roll About Drinking On The Job 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Still, he wasn’t as unworldly as that makes him sound. Memorial for Compline Choir founder, composer Peter Hallock is May 18 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Clare — as she was known then — was known to be beautiful, but unworldly, and intensely devout. Our Lady Of Silicon Valley 2013-11-25T20:40:00Z This profusion led to a hiring frenzy for science journalists, who, for a golden while anyway, had a blast producing magazines on scales of time and money that seem unworldly today. Out There: A Glossy Science Magazine or Living Fossil? 2013-05-06T20:45:01Z Bashar, in the king’s view, was not only uninterested but unworldly: “There was a dinner with me and him and the king of Morocco, at the king’s residence in Cairo,” Abdullah tells Goldberg. Jordan’s King Flames Out 2013-03-20T11:50:00Z By implication, anyone calling for a growth strategy based on investment is an unworldly child in fiscal matters. David Cameron's very own magic money tree 2013-03-07T17:32:33Z Tagore, the apparently unworldly romantic, transformed the consciousness of his region through essays, poems and songs, two of which are now the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. India Ink: A Greater Asia 2012-09-24T05:46:51Z “Demon —” I manage under the stench of unworldly halitosis, “— meet Null Devourer.” Midnight at the A&E 2012-04-04T17:21:19.250Z How unworldly, how humble, is our right reverend father in God; it is a pity that his voice here has such a twang of Pecksniff and Uriah Heap. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z She was as childlike, as innocent, as unworldly and unsophisticated a maiden as ever lived,—and beautiful as well. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z Thwackum," says the Gentle Reader, "was, after all, an unworldly man. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z His pure, unworldly life, his ever ready sympathy, his learning and homely wisdom, had earned him the rank of a saint. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Let her now seek to attain, through purification and discipline, such fresh fulness of life as shall insure the triumph of her spiritual forces—her fervent faith and her unworldly wisdom. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Foster was an extremely modest, unworldly, retiring gentleman. The Unpublishable Memoirs 2012-02-03T03:00:18.447Z It was a city created on a level bright tide, under lustrous green hills, for the reward of cherished and unworldly dreams. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z "And Isa," remarked Calhoun, "is so unworldly that wealth would be a matter of small consideration to her where her heart was concerned." Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children 2011-12-22T03:00:21.710Z The members of this higher group of productive students are rarely understood by the common spirits, who appreciate as little their unselfish devotion as their unworldly neglect of the practical side of the problems. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z A recent front-page article in the New York Times, much discussed in legal circles, was the latest salvo in what is now a long line of attacks depicting the legal academy as impractical and unworldly. For Better Government, Don’t Kill All the Lawyers: Noah Feldman 2011-11-28T00:05:32Z Take, for example, primitive Christianity, which was certainly an effort to be unworldly, if ever such an effort was made by man. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Enthusiastic devotion to unworldly ends has not diminished; it only manifests itself in new directions. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z There was in them a touch of the genuine unworldly simplicity which forms part of your character. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z But mixed in with the scorn was a pinch of respect for something unworldly in Annette, uncalculating of her own advantage. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z He told me he didn't want your small, unworldly head to be bothered with money matters. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Nice old guy, very unworldly, completely wrapped up in his work. Sentiment, Inc. 2011-10-09T02:00:23.850Z For all this we need an unworldly faith and a spiritual mind. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z My dear Miss Sandys, you are unworldly and inexperienced in your generosity——" "So are you! Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z He himself was so unworldly, he would never be able to manage an older woman. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Poor unworldly Blake, enraged and baffled, was the last man to organize an undertaking of this sort. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z They were curious and unworldly, however, at Jewsbury-on-the-Wold, and somehow the news of the great match Gerald was about to contract brought them only sorrow and distress. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z The trouble is, this argument is a little too unworldly. Short-selling ban sends out a dangerous message 2011-08-12T16:55:05Z She smiled, too, a little embarrassed: "How could I be anything but frank in return for your very unworldly generosity?" she said. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z The latest disappointment, however, came in unworldly fashion. D.C. United vs. FC Toronto: Dwayne De Rosario?s hat trick highlights 3-3 draw 2011-08-07T02:31:13Z His ideals in that direction were as wholly unworldly as his ideals were practical in every other direction. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z He becomes a priest or monk, poor, celibate, self-denying and unworldly. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z “He is unworldly to a degree,” continued the little lady; “and as you justly say, the simplest of men.” One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z His indorsement made the checks good, and saved the unworldly old parson a deal of trouble. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z In temporal matters, he was as unpractical as he was unworldly, and, but for his wife's calm, judicious judgment and practical common-sense, would have been in perpetual financial straits. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z Mrs. Glyn Williams had perhaps taught her daughters many foolish and unworthy lessons, but in the presence of the unworldly old doctor the little snobberies melted away and the higher standards prevailed. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z His views on most subjects were romantic and unworldly, and his ideas about women were peculiarly chivalrous. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z Mamma, I do think you and papa are the most unworldly people I ever heard of! That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z He looked into their clear obscurity of depth, wherein were purity and unworldly womanly ways. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Her sympathies both broad and sure, Her one desire to do the right— Clear visioned from the inner light God gives to souls unworldly, pure. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z I do not know when, if ever, I have seen any one I like so much—so clever, so natural, so unworldly, so large-minded, so good-looking. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z She was quite young—young enough to have been unworldly, you would have thought—when she jilted a poor man to marry a rich one. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z Then his eyes, without shifting, seemed to ignore the clock, to gaze through it into some unworldly dimension, and he murmured in a soft dramatic whisper: 'I see the Divine Dove!——' Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Sunk in an enthusiastic study of the art, and reading all that is poetic and unworldly, she grew up without girl friends, without all childish amusements. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z In this vein was Cleve Verney's contemplation—and even more virtuous and unworldly as he proceeded—in the elation of his new sense of omnipotence and glory. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z It reflects perfectly the attitude of mind that built the US - naive in many ways, unworldly in its unquestioning attitude to commercial enterprise, yet wholesome, rugged and, to use Donald Rumsfeld's favourite phrase, forward leaning. American nightmare 2011-02-16T11:36:29Z But Mr. Gray was of a quiet, unworldly sort himself, and took Sidney's love for granted. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z A few unworldly instincts remained in her—gratitude for and quick response to any kindness offered from anybody; an inclination to make friends with stray wanderers into her circle, and to cultivate the socially useless. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z He was scholarly, well-bred and gentle, but wholly unworldly. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Romantic and simple Miss Sheckleton, he felt that you were a true denizen of those regions in which of late, he had been soaring, unworldly, true. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z No matter how unworldly he might be, the r�le of the man who had so suddenly intruded in the apartment and as suddenly disappeared, must be patent. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Careless, rich and happy, and there was something about the young man that had made a strong appeal to the maternal feeling that is in every woman, however young or unworldly she may be. Lola 2010-12-24T03:00:35.720Z While it's an easy criticism of conventional economics that it makes too many unworldly assumptions about equilibrium and perfect knowledge in pursuit of a theory, that's not the case for this year's winners. Peter Diamond's Nobel prize in economics is all about hard work 2010-10-11T18:21:00Z I find him in wedged into a crowded carriage at King's Cross, looking rather like a university vice-chancellor – cerebral and unworldly, in a slightly crumpled suit, unrecognised and entirely at home in his anonymity. Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation' 2010-08-09T07:00:00Z In Dalian on Tuesday, cleanup workers and suppliers of cleanup equipment described an unworldly scene, with a three-foot layer of thick crude stretching in every direction for hundreds of yards from the leak, gradually thinning. Dalian Workers Question Official Account of Oil Spill 2010-08-04T16:29:00Z Then, when she was 16, "my parents panicked because I was a bit unworldly, so I went to an all-boys boarding school". Karren Brady: 'Women have brains and uteruses, and are able to use?both' 2010-04-11T21:00:00Z A one-dimensional, some would say unworldly, bachelor, his conservative attitudes and single-minded lifestyle, generated by upbringing and reliability, Bedser did what he was asked, avoided social excesses and lived for his cricket. England bowler Bedser dies aged 91 2010-04-05T10:47:00Z It was an unusual role for a congressman representing an unworldly East Texas district. 2010-02-11T07:35:00Z We in business schools have in part contributed to this perception because in the rush to be perceived by business not to be unworldly, we have actually exacerbated the criticism that we are irrelevant. 2009-12-31T17:45:00Z Yes, she is so sweet and unworldly and innocent! A Double Knot It was old-fashioned and unworldly of Bulstrode: still, that was the way he was constituted. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode She was as unsophisticated as a child of ten, as unworldly as a baby, as—well, poor Miss Jane, again. The Window at the White Cat That must have been some very innocent and unworldly village schoolmaster, I should say, who first set going that venerable proverb, "Honesty is the best policy." Beatrice Boville and Other Stories To Hertha's innocent and unworldly mind this is a great puzzle; to her the sacredness of love between husband and wife seems a matter of course. The Wish A Novel Cool through the heat of summer, Still as a sacred grove, It has the rapt unworldly air Of mystery and love. Later Poems He was a wonderfully attractive personality, full of quaint learning, and a certain unworldly wisdom. Lafcadio Hearn But it was enough for this cultured, unworldly Irish gentleman that persons of quality had stopped at his gate. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Some of them suffered martyrdom, so complete and entirely unworldly was their self-surrender to Jesus Christ! The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews Pray come, then, and put up with my strange, unworldly ways; and you must give me some more hints about my health. Blind Policy The strange, unworldly feeling he had always had, the pulling toward something he knew not what, made me doubly fearful. The Lost Door The other Sunday night, Mr. Harris was very spiritual, at any rate, very impractical and unworldly. About London They made an absolutely worldly sacrifice for a wholly unworldly motive. The Heart of a Woman The course that you purpose is indeed a self-denying, an unworldly, and a noble one.” The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) She was really strangely unworldly, and in this renewed comradeship with her old friend, she saw nothing for anyone to criticize. The Torch Bearer Out of all the oppression, rapacity, confiscation, which the two peoples experienced in different forms and different degrees, arose an unworldly ideal, a sense of the invisible realm. Women of England Waiving, however, this one instance of something like compliance with the brutal spirit of the world, on all other subjects he was eminently unworldly, child-like, simple-minded, and upright. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Moira replied that this was impossible, trying to sound as unworldly and impenetrably artistic as she could. Special Delivery Especially out of that elderly maiden, the too unworldly Miss Erhard, that incomparable mistress of the art of education? The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels And I could wish you were not so immaculate, so unworldly—you are tiresome more often than not. The Bright Shawl His own unworldly disposition, together with the excessively retired life which he had led since early manhood, rather damaged the chances of Cowper as a satirist. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) At forty he no longer counted; he had lost all his brilliance, and had replaced it by a shy, unworldly charm. The Return of the Prodigal I knew that she had one of those simple and unworldly natures which wealth and splendor could not satisfy, and whose life would lie entirely in her affections. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine I tell you the Institute is more than a collection of unworldly scientists. The Sensitive Man Laughing there she strolls between Huge sun-flowers drenched with light, Followed by her retinue Of unworldly Paladins. Atta Troll A good-looking girl without crinoline had a sort of unworldly freshness of air that really constituted a charm. Household Papers and Stories He had no ascertainable eyebrows, or eyelashes, or hair, and this, with his bright, fresh complexion and his big spectacles, gave him a very unworldly appearance. Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 He should have remarried long before, and indeed even so unworldly a person as he knew that more than one young lady in Blanford would have viewed with complacency the prospect of becoming Mrs. Bishop. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts She was the daughter of a musician, a Bohemian, who would make no objections to an unworldly match. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales The degradation and repulsion of the leading industry of the place are equalled by the unworldly nobility and optimism of the leading church. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology I loved her as I might have discovered a new world; and I tried to express this fact, as I should have learned a new, unworldly language. The Gates Between Looking at her intently a moment, he softened and added, “Well, you are a dear, unworldly woman.” The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains It was a poet's life from first to last,—free, unhampered, unworldly, unconventional, picturesque, simple, untouched by the craze of money-getting, unselfish, devoted to others, and was, on the whole, joyfully and contentedly lived. Whitman A Study The very unworldly will substitute spiritual knowledge for opulence. The Heart of the New Thought The shining crown which Christ holds out calls us to The unworldly life. Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children She had been a patient, unworldly, and devout sufferer; a chronic invalid, who bore her lot divinely. The Gates Between I know that he is very simple and unworldly; but he is good and kind and faithful; he is a true artist—almost a great one, and he has the heart of a child. Tante She loved, and she was a woman, worldly-wise, but unworldly. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country And so unlike––the one unworldly, spiritual, and, save in self-defence, gentle and meek; the other charged with high ambition, fond of power, ready for battle, gracious in gay society, passionate in love. Graham of Claverhouse He is as unworldly as he is conventional. The Dominant Strain They were unselfish and true, and what below we should have called "unworldly," because it was the most natural thing in the world. The Gates Between Once the two friends ate together at a sacramental meal, the pledge and almost the conclusion on earth of that tenderest, most disinterested, and unworldly love which existed between them. Italy, the Magic Land He increases the pleasure of unworldly enjoyments so we are independent of the worldly ones. The Romance of the Soul "How could I teach others to be unworldly if I myself did what to them would appear worldly-minded?" Lotus Buds A good man, we had agreed, must at any rate be honest, passionate, and unworldly. Monday or Tuesday That is an advantage; it is only the stupid people, who call their stupidity unworldly, who think otherwise. Daisy's Aunt She was practical and a good manager, and she needed to be, for her husband was as weirdly unworldly as a farmer could be. A Son of the Middle Border It was manifested by the perhaps best of all evidences, as construed by experienced observers,—the uniform prevalence of an unworldly and super-worldly spirit. The History of Dartmouth College Yes, there was the same sort of grave purity, of unworldly if not unearthly spiritual beauty. Nobody "A good man is at any rate honest, passionate and unworldly." Monday or Tuesday It was like a wail of some unworldly creature, ending with a shuddering twang that grated even on the nerves of Henry Burns's companions. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill That Germany has vanished, the wiseacres say, the dreamy unworldly German is no more with us, it is sheer sentimental folly to believe in him and to waste your time looking for him. Home Life in Germany You see, I've known her from a child, and a more unworldly creature never breathed. Somehow Good Cousin Charles is capable of any unworldly folly, but Aymer was a man of the world once. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker They cherish no illusions of an unworldly sort about it. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study The Arabs call it "The Father of Terror," and it certainly has a most weird, unworldly look. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months He was an unworldly sort of man, I believe.” The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened After two years, it was easy for my mother, an unworldly woman at best, to forget the dissimilarity in their species. My Father, the Cat The "Church of England" drones on about Nellie, who is "such a child, only seventeen; so unsophisticated and so unworldly." Under the Southern Cross The Arabs call it "The Father of Terror," and it certainly has a weird and unworldly look. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Esther knew that he was right, although she understood better than he the unworldly aims of the man. Juggernaut To be sure, he does not follow them slavishly and rejects the extremes of asceticism and unworldly cynicism which a great many of the Sufis preached and practiced. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Was it, as the Grecian sings, Birds were born the first of things, Before the sun, before the wind, Before the gods, before mankind, Airy, ante-mundane throng— Witness their unworldly song! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Then, too, the legends of the sea invest the mind with a sensitive, poetic passion as delightful as it is unworldly, as reverent as it is credulous. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy While he had delighted in her unworldly, childlike belief in people and things, in this instance he deeply regretted it. 'Me--Smith' They all had an unworldly, a spiritual basis. Personal Friendships of Jesus It was with a glow of pleasure not wholly unworldly that she found herself one afternoon in Mrs. Hilbrough's reception-room, and noted all about her marks of taste and unstinted expenditure. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York It is unfortunate that the unworldly Coleridge and the worldly Thackeray should have both pitched upon Lamb's "saintliness" to make copy of. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions It was so plain, so evidently unworldly in its simplicity, that unreasonably enough, for Eleanor looked well in it, it put Mr. Carlisle in a fume every day. The Old Helmet, Volume II She wondered; she could not place this fresh-cheeked, unworldly young man so far from his home. Free Air What if she, Sylvia, were to go on past her own house, on up to the ridge, and appeal to that unworldly woman for succor? Children of the Desert Only a Penguinity like David's is subtle, a little unworldly, and, like most gracious gifts, fragile. Penguin Persons & Peppermints The lamp behind her shone through the golden hair that made a halo around her face, the face of a child, unworldly, confiding. A Tar-Heel Baron I never met with more truly unworldly and unselfish people.' Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls It is a romance sui generis—in the world, and yet most unworldly—full of unusual characters set forth in more unusual language—refreshing and delightful to the initiate, and most wearisome to commonplace minds. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Baldwin, an Exeter labourer by birth, by turns a schoolmaster, archdeacon, Cistercian abbot, Bishop of Worcester, and primate—a silent, dark, strong man, gentle, studious, and unworldly—was delighted at the request. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England The letters are as varied as the claims of one's family differ from those of the outside world, but are always Mendelssohnian,—free, pure, unworldly, yet deep and wise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 But, from the desire doubtless to save one so disinterested and unworldly from any accusation of complicity, he was silent upon the schemes on which he pinned his hopes of escape. The Light of Scarthey It is an unworldly sleepy place, though its commerce in cheeses is enormous. The Automobilist Abroad I am ashamed that for one moment I doubted your innocent, unworldly heart. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Ah, my dears!—so fresh, so unsophisticated, so—yes, that is the word—so unworldly. Girls of the Forest He re-opened the inner eye of man, teaching contemplation in solitude, an unworldly life in abnegation, in chastity, in charity.... The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises She could not help wishing things were a trifle more real sometimes, bright and whimsically unworldly as she was. Vagabondia 1884 But though to-day she sang of the laughter that is above, she was less unworldly on the morrow. Duffels It seems little to be perceived, how much the great Scriptural idea of the worldly and the unworldly is found to emerge in literature as well as in life. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 He took the squire's outstretched hand, grasping it cordially, a pure unworldly dignity in his whole look and bearing. Robert Elsmere I looked about me and wondered whence came the charm of that tangled, unworldly spot. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 I wouldn't have Jack or Aunt Elizabeth—dear, unworldly old soul—see it for the world. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 How very quaint and sweet and unworldly she was! Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 It is easy to abstain from conventional things; it is a great deal harder to put in practice the unworldly virtues of the Christian character. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John They have run away from it to the ascetic, unworldly life. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion The ignorant and unworldly Minim fathers could neither foresee nor, if they had foreseen, alleviate the miseries incident to his arrival under such conditions. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Despite a certain stiffness of manner and speech, he was a man of kindly heart and simple, unworldly nature. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Its manifestations, however, were often a little eccentric, for its owner was as ignorant and unworldly as a child. In Blue Creek Cañon Yet something had led him to the heart of Islam, to that strange and unworldly seat of ancient learning. There was a King in Egypt Oh believe in your noblest impulses, in your purest instincts, in your most unworldly and spiritual thoughts! The Life Radiant Lady Caroline was no vulgar, match-making mother, he knew that well enough; but she was in some respects a thoroughly worldly woman, and Philip Ashley was an essentially unworldly man. A True Friend A Novel My little cousin, my pathetic, unworldly Phillida—and this cabaret entertainer! The Thing from the Lake But just because her husband was so unworldly, so unpractical, Charlotte's own more everyday nature began to reassert itself. How It All Came Round Renteria was a quiet, thoughtful, unworldly man, humble and plain in his ways, though of considerable learning. Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies' "A fellow who knows him very well told me that Harborough had fallen in love with a beautiful girl who was so unworldly that she might be induced to marry for love--if she cared." Lady Betty Across the Water "One frequently finds it gentle and unworldly, but the other is odious because it is always aggressive and narrow." Esmeralda For he could not quite satisfy himself by saying, that Mr Elliott was no man of business, an unworldly man. Janet's Love and Service He evidently thought of me as of one unworldly and unpractical. How It All Came Round It is very unworldly of you to consent without asking more about my affairs, for I am a poor match for you, little one. The Love Affairs of Pixie Evelyn, be warned by me, and never, never marry an unworldly man. The Lady of the Basement Flat She was wholly absorbed in her study of this unworldly and untaught nature. Esmeralda What Clinton said, it is unnecessary to repeat, for the language of passion is commonplace, unless it flows from lips as fresh and unworldly and impulsive as Mittie’s. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Charlotte was lowered in the eyes of the unworldly man. How It All Came Round We must live a holy and unworldly life; we must avoid all that might be construed as an unworthy compromise of the interests of our Master's Kingdom. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. A husband can be too unworldly, and lost in the clouds. The Lady of the Basement Flat This is possible because, in the first place, art is unworldly. The Moral Economy It looked unreal, a painting of unworldly quiet and desolation. The Hills of Home There!" he said; "don't, for Heaven's sake, you two unpractical, unworldly people, begin to be angry with me. How It All Came Round Men have misread the words, and said, See, the religion of Jesus is quite unworldly, has nothing to do with the institutions and arrangements of human life. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. The difference in her simple attire from the full dress all around her in no wise disturbed her unworldly spirit. The Love Affairs of an Old Maid Jesus was too spiritual and unworldly for the enterprise on which he had embarked—too much occupied with healing, preaching and speculating. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion The living of Skelwick was to be worth treble his curate's stipend, and though he was an unworldly man, his children's future was a necessary consideration. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story They were not so unworldly as he had hoped. How It All Came Round You never seem to understand, Toni, that all people are not so unworldly as you. The Making of a Soul Moreover, the religious spirit cannot be really secularized, for what in fact is it but the unworldly form of a stage in the development of the human mind? Selected Essays Men like Cotton and Winthrop, less spiritual and more practical, less unworldly and more resistant, than men like Robinson and Bradford, were not prepared to renounce the land of their birth without a struggle. Beginnings of the American People But don't you think," said Pheasant, "that a certain fixed dress, marking the unworldly character of a religious order, is desirable? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 George Scudder was a grave, thoughtful young man,—not given to talking, and silent in the society of women, with that kind of reverential bashfulness which sometimes shows a pure, unworldly nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Simple, unworldly Phoebe did not guess that while Rhoda Peveril and Phoebe Latrobe were of no consequence in the eyes of her hostess, the future possessor of White-Ladies was of very much. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Religion remains the ideal, unworldly consciousness of its members, because it is the ideal form of the human stage of development which it represents. Selected Essays You would think to look at him that he was a gentle, unworldly creature, addicted to poetry, but he isn’t! The Heart of Una Sackville Gervase had long received the sanction of approval; and once assured of Nan’s happiness, it was impossible for the most unworldly of relatives to restrain a thrill of satisfaction in the grandeur of the alliance. A Houseful of Girls His lips moved in broken utterance, but I saw he was not addressing me; there was a far-off, unworldly expression in his eyes. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 It is the paradox of this time that only the unworldly things had any worldly success. A Short History of England Whatever are the faults of youth, it is unworldly in its estimates as a rule, and uncalculating in its thoughts of the future. Friendship "You don't see that that has anything to do with it," she broke in sharply, with the evident intention of wounding him, "because you are very unworldly, what is usually called very unsophisticated." Short Stories of Various Types A star is good," said Melchior, "A high, unworldly thing; But I would choose a soul alive To be my Lord and King. In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World But no one can be imbued with his teaching without finding it a great moral tonic, and deriving from it a nobler, braver, and more unworldly conception of human life. Historical and Political Essays For let me say that a young man who has been lately crossed in love is in a better mood for most unworldly meditation, than he is likely to be before or after. Simon Dale This did not suit the unworldly old farmer, who had inherited, not in vain, the spiritualities and finer influences of his possession, the Perdu. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Those people had been right who had called Sir Denis unworldly. Mary Gray In her youth she had been a noted beauty, and in her old age was not too unworldly to remember that she had received twenty-five proposals of marriage. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies He was a thoroughly unworldly man, and actions which had their root in unworldliness have been ascribed unjustly to a kind of Lucifer pride. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art There is something beautiful in the innocent, unworldly love of children like these, who are ready to build a nest under any eaves. Cobwebs and Cables I always feel good and ideal and unworldly when I am near you. The Farringdons The strange thing was that the proud old lady was gratified, almost flattered, by the confidence in Walter Gray's unworldly eyes. Mary Gray "My dear, you're too young and unworldly to understand these things," she said. The Heather-Moon The girl was both submissive and unworldly, and she listened to her mother's enumeration of the possible advantages of an intimacy with Miss Chancellor as she would have listened to any other fairy-tale. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) But he has this strange note of the saint in him: that he is literally unworldly. George Bernard Shaw He was an elderly man, and extremely unworldly. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont The world's woman noted the beauty and tender grace of the unworldly woman, and her eyes fell. Joyce of the North Woods The amiable, unfortunate Cowper, the most shrinking and melancholy of men, too gentle and too unworldly for common companionship, was especially fitted for the soothing ministrations and the healing sympathy of women. The Friendships of Women Joanna is a Donna Quixotina, an unworldly, unearthly sort of girl, with a dream of tilting with the world and succouring the distressed. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes With the subtleties of speculation concerning those truths, and the unworldly envies growing out of them, it has not to do. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Reginald knew that his father would never consent, but we enlisted the sympathy of the chaplain, and he, mild, unworldly man, married us one day in the consecrated chapel of the castle. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont The sight of Geoffrey Ripon again had won upon her strangely, and his unworldly speech had struck some chord in the depths of her own heart now long unused. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow But everything here is so pure and unworldly that I think we manage to show our boys what is the highest. The Loom of Youth The play of negotiation, of parry and thrust, was courteous, as befitted actors and scene, but Mr. Bartol's intention to buy cheap, and his host's desire to sell dear, were palpable to the unworldly eavesdropper. Choice Readings for the Home Circle He educated me and interpreted life for me; he was a man of the world, I suppose, but he managed to keep me most unworldly wise. The Place Beyond the Winds Sung as a closing hymn, “My ain countree” sends the worshipper away with a tender, unworldly thought that lingers. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes You?—you who are so good, so unworldly? A Crooked Path A Novel At its head stood a lady, who reminded Lucy strongly of the pictures of her dear mother, except that there was the difference of expression between a worldly and an unworldly character. Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword On the contrary, there would be new and fertile schemes set on foot to part the unworldly stranger and her money. An Alabaster Box Professor Kellton was the most unworldly of the lot, yet he was asking the most practical question. Graveyard of Dreams What a day it had been, with the spring air which set mind and feet astir, the ride along the rush-fringed banks of the winding Mincio and the unworldly hours in the old farmstead! Roads from Rome What a queer unworldly sort of creature you are. Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence It was still that his soul asked something of this other purer, gentler, more unworldly, more loving soul, which she, with all her beneficence would not give him. Great Possessions Emerson had no system; and his coveting truth had another exceptional consequence: he was detached, unworldly, contemplative. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion And from lungs surely made of brass came forth the fierce songs that have been thrown back from the Nile's brown banks perhaps since the Sphinx first set his unworldly eyes towards eternity. Bella Donna A Novel I am a literary man, unworldly, and I wear long hair and a soft hat and a peculiar overcoat to indicate the same to ordinary people. Certain Personal Matters They were, in short, very unworldly children—that does not mean that they were specially religious—but they did not care for fine clothes, nor the ordinary amusements which ordinary children delight in. A Little Mother to the Others There was a strength about the lift of the delicate chin, a steadfast fearlessness about the poise of the well-shaped head—unworldly wonders, which I had never seen. Berry And Co. The romantic and fanciful passion of the Poles, bold, yet unworldly, is shown in the habit of drinking the health of a sweetheart from her own shoe. The Great German Composers Gladys sat up, and her wet eyes met those of her kind friend, who had allowed her upright and womanly heart to take the right, if the unworldly side. The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow Raphael's pictures with their superhumanly lovely saints, their unworldly feeling, and their supernaturally clear light, doubtless imparted pleasure, but not a sympathetic inspiration. The Book of Art for Young People I have heard myself as pleasant a tale about the Haunted Ships and their unworldly crews as any one would wish to hear in a winter evening. Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland But this man—a child of the latter day—had not the new self-confidence, and he was at the best high-strung, unwise, and unworldly. The Half-Hearted But he ignored that unworldly morality which, among Buddhists and Christians, is so much admired and so little practised. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Sir Richard smiled at this unworldly way of looking at things; but the Trevlyns had suffered from being somewhat too well known at Court, and he understood the feeling. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot As I remember her, she was a frank, fearless, generous, and unworldly woman, and had probably found in the subsequent independent exercise of her abilities the shield for these virtues. Records of a Girlhood In a community thus unworldly must have arisen a mode of thought, energetic, original, and sublime. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 I have heard myself as pleasant a tale about the Haunted Ships and their unworldly crews, as any one would wish to hear in a winter evening. Stories of Mystery The unworldly man manifestly took it for granted that witnesses who harboured any such grudge against him would willingly admit it, if pressed on the point. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment The habit of unworldly simplicity, which may have had to be induced by deliberate self-denial, becomes a natural disposition which rejects superfluities from unconscious choice. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Salome was too unworldly, too pure, and holy, to suspect that these offers had been made her from any other motive than personal preference. The Lost Lady of Lone Zelma herself, too unworldly to suspect that self-interest had anything to do with her conquest, never alluded to her lack of dowry till it was too late. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 "Mr. Chester, what you see, I think, is that my aunts are perhaps the two most--well--unworldly women you ever knew." The Flower of the Chapdelaines The sisters were strict in their observances, and gave a good pattern of the unworldly life, which attracted Ellenbog strongly. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London She was only seventeen, and in several ways she was unconventional, even unworldly. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town In his earnestness, he had neglected to soften down the narrative, so that it might not terrify the heart of this unworldly infant. True Stories of History and Biography Only a man—and an unworldly one—would have permitted you to proceed on your adventure dressed in a gown thirty years out of date. The Ragged Edge We are Made one unworldly thing; we are past the world; Yea, and unmade: we are immortality. Emblems Of Love Could such an unworldly and inexperienced woman be right? The Spinners Beatrice, you are the most quixotic, extraordinary, unworldly, unpractical creature that ever breathed. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town Oh, Margaret Elizabeth, it is your own fault, for being so dear, so unworldly! The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man The Far East too has its unworldly side which, though harmonizing with Buddhism, is native. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 It lifted the religion of many Englishmen from the somewhat gross and bourgeois condition in which the movement found it, to a pure and unworldly idealism. Outspoken Essays A fine, delicate, unworldly woman; a fineness different from Phebe's, submerged in the pursuit of her own salvation. The Three Black Pennys A Novel "Sometimes, Connie with her queer unworldly notions annoys me," she thought. The Imaginary Marriage By Jove, Ray," cried Doe excitedly, "it's only when I'm in my unworldly moods that I want so little as that. Tell England A Study in a Generation He was an unworldly man, and hated worldliness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Yet he was loved and honoured by men whose love is an honour, and he is admired by all who can appreciate a consistently unworldly life. Outspoken Essays Already she occupied an unusual elevation in his thoughts, an unworldly plane bathed in a white radiance. The Three Black Pennys A Novel She is worldly—I suppose she can't help it—and we are unworldly. Red Pottage Here by the mossy courtyard, enclosed by historic walls and the spirit of an unworldly past, we are met by a sign-board, with the following English inscription: FOR SALE! A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees "But they are so unworldly that they don't think of effect," said Mrs. Fluffy. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 He was a thorough man of the world; he knew innoence at first glance, and Gretchen was both innocent and unworldly. The Goose Girl At first she had regretted his choice, hoping, as the worldly and the unworldly alike hope for their sons, that the object of George's disinterested affection would prove to be wealthy. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage If I am unworldly, it is because I had the advantage of parents who impressed on me the hollowness of all social distinctions. Red Pottage The laborer is worthy of his hire, and an unworldly minded reformer ought to be supplied with the wherewithal needful to feed, clothe, and house himself and those dependent upon him. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist If his unworldly father could think Laura, though innocent, so far compromised that Isabel was not safe in her care, what were other people saying? Nightfall No wonder, then, that they had deluded simple Helen, and her even simpler and more unworldly father. A Noble Life "It is those precious unworldly studies, those cloister thoughts picturing ecclesiastical and demoniac scenes, which have prepared me for the present folly," he said to himself. Là-bas Walking through a "steamer train" he sees a "celebrity," a brilliant, let us say, but unworldly man. Etiquette She had been an invalid, and the most sinless and unworldly woman he had ever known. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories The enemies of Thackeray call him a worldling, instead of what he was, a man too ready to believe in the goodness of the unworldly. Varied Types And their clothes were certainly beautifully made—even my poor old unworldly eye could tell that. Mr. Britling Sees It Through One day the youth and damsel found the unworldly artist weeping for joy before his completed clock, the wonder of the earth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Like Luther, his answer to all objections--worldly or unworldly--would always have been, 'I can no other'. The Authoritative Life of General William Booth Her own ideal of what even a young man should be was as unpractical as that of many thoroughly good and thoroughly unworldly mothers. Whosoever Shall Offend They seemed to Marcella's young eyes absolutely sincere and quite unworldly. Marcella How can hearts steeped in worldliness reflect this absolutely unworldly, this heavenly Person? How to become like Christ He half expected to be set upon by all the unworldly and bodiless malevolences whom he had outraged by assisting to break alike their windows and their peace. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Slight of figure, unworldly, simple in all his ways, Warfield was the very man to bring a message back from the other world. The Return of Peter Grimm Its unworldly motives, its stern allegiance to duty, its protest against self-indulgence, its courage and sincerity, will ever constitute the potent energy of true religion. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries You are too unworldly—too good; you know nothing of the manners of fashionable people. Coralie Everyday Life Library No. 2 Many people would have said that he was laughing on the wrong side of his mouth: the worldly never can understand the unworldly. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 There was no corner of the great world of dramatic art they had not explored, borne up to the loftiest regions of endeavor by their touchingly unworldly ignorance of their limitations. Hillsboro People The pensive detachment of a sensitive and yet not altogether unworldly spirit seems to be the final impression evoked by his books. One Hundred Best Books Edersheim remarks, "We can scarcely wonder that such Jews as Josephus and Philo, and such heathens as Pliny, were attracted by such an unworldly and lofty sect." A Short History of Monks and Monasteries "No; Owen Meredith is a favorite poet of mine; there is something very unworldly and beautiful about his verses." The Coquette's Victim Everyday Life Library No. 1 Miss Adamson had never shared Lady Arthur's low estimate of Mr. Eildon: she liked his sweet, unworldly nature, and she had a regard for him as having aims both lower and higher than a "career." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 It was the close of a useful, unworldly, unambitious life, full of innocent enjoyment and deep affection. Robert Browning After all, it was somewhat of an undertaking for an unworldly woman to go out alone into the world and buy a motor-car and engage a chauffeur, not to mention clothing the chauffeur. Mr. Prohack Thus two currents of worldly intrigue were uniting to push an unworldly man to a higher dignity than he either sought or desired. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 "That is why you like them—you are so unworldly yourself." The Coquette's Victim Everyday Life Library No. 1 There is nothing that true, honorable, unworldly natures shrink from more than having low, unworthy feelings and motives attributed to them. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Like some subtle unexpected spice in a masterly confection, a strange, profound, unworldly melancholy just permeates their most brilliant writings, and gives the last fine taste. Landmarks in French Literature From Wordsworth he learned to find peace in nature, to pursue an unworldly purpose, and to be content with humble duties. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold This was the first, the unworldly and perhaps deepest view of the matter. Deadham Hard You know what it is to be unworldly and unlike others. The Coquette's Victim Everyday Life Library No. 1 He is a most unworldly man, and lives in a world of his own. The Moon Rock Anne had a pretty pink colour in her cheeks, her flaxen locks were bound with green ribbons, and green adorned her white dress, in which she had a gracious, lily-like look of unworldly purity. The Three Brides I never knew, until I lost you, what you were to me; how superior to all other women, how pure, how unworldly, how strong, how rich in all mental and womanly endowments! Miriam Monfort A Novel Their history runs back to an ancestry of unworldly faith and prayer and self-denial, of incorruptible public virtue, sturdy resistance of evil, and pursuit of good. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel To enlighten the mind is a great function; but in the mass of mankind there are few who are accessible to ideas as such, especially on the unworldly side of life, or interested in them. Heart of Man She is a very unworldly kind of woman, and thinks of nothing but spiritualism. The Moon Rock Shrewd, practical, capable, as they were, in the affairs of this life, perfectly natural and human as were their characters, still they were in the best sense unworldly men. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 Even ministers, poets, and writers of unworldly romances are sometimes influenced by mercenary considerations. The Mystery of Metropolisville There was a dark, fierce, unworldly light in his eyes. Red Axe Claiming to be exclusively spiritual, fervent, unworldly, the sole announcer of the free grace of God amid self-righteousness and sin, it had come, in fact, to be on very easy terms with the world. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 Thus out of evil comes good; out of oppression, rapacity and confiscation grow pure unselfishness, an unworldly ideal, a sense of the invisible realm. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Tenor voice and some knowledge of Hebrew essential; single; unworldly. The Human Chord It is easy to think of it as unworldly, peaceable, philosophical; but it is mere laziness. The Silent Isle Such a state of affairs could not but be gratifying to any man, however unworldly, and the Squire was not altogether unworldly. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life "I am prepared, now, to testify to your unworldly innocence of heart and mind," he gibed. The Eyes of the World Like all the rest, it speaks of tremendous power, of unworldly and mysterious ends. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Yes, you have the kind of courage that is necessary," Mr. Skale was saying, half to himself, "the modesty that forgets self, and the unworldly attitude that is essential. The Human Chord The really unworldly philosopher is the man who is at ease in all costumes and at home in all companies. The Silent Isle In like manner, men of high, unworldly natures are often reverenced by those who are somewhat puzzled what to do with them practically. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 That peculiar training produces, often enough, a character of saintliness and unworldly grace on which one can only "look," to use a phrase of Mr. Gladstone's, "as men look up at the stars." Collections and Recollections The modest clerk had made this girl the light of his life, and whether far or near the rays of that ideal would guide him on his unworldly path. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Love, other than that ethereal kind which aspires towards Paradise, was a stranger to his thoughts, and he constantly erred in attributing to other people natures and purposes as unworldly and spiritual as his own. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 When my sweet, pretty mother lay dying she left to me, her sixteen-year-old child, my dreamy, unworldly father as a legacy. Not Pretty, but Precious The play of the intellect with these subtle and unworldly questions was to our minds as inevitable as the stages of our bodily growth. Principal Cairns His father was a country clergyman and schoolmaster in the village of Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire, a simple-hearted unworldly man, full of curious learning and not very attentive to practical affairs. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems How again, they tired of that too gentle and unworldly strain, and sought in Shakespeare something more exciting, more genial, more rich in the facts and passions of daily life? Literary and General Lectures and Essays Many thought him weak because he was simple, childlike and unworldly. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II She's a dear, unworldly little thing," said the philosopher absently; "more like the stage people of my young days—folk of simple manners. Alexander's Bridge He waited in the wide and humble room, The only room in that unworldly place This world could enter; and the pictures looked Upon his face and down into his soul, And strangely stirred him. Poems: Patriotic, Religious IT is not enough to be merely unworldly. Hermione's Group of Thinkers Was he not, in his unworldly, almost ascetic, devotion to his art, a sort of literary, saint-like hermit? A Personal Record That speech is very important to the poetic, and not less to the moral, purpose of the play: the triumph of unworldly affections. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Dr. Johnson and the unworldly author of "The Deserted Village" were frequent visitors, sometimes appearing together arm-in-arm, with James Boswell, Esq., of Auchinleck, following obsequiously behind. Ponkapog Papers Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady's will, but the unworldly Marches only said... Little Women October though it was, the garden was still very sweet with dear, old-fashioned, unworldly flowers and shrubs—sweet may, southern-wood, lemon verbena, alyssum, petunias, marigolds and chrysanthemums. Anne of the Island In the midst of her millions Mrs. Vanderpoel was wholly unworldly. The Shuttle We find that while there is a perfectly genuine danger of fanaticism from the men who have unworldly ideals, the permanent and urgent danger of fanaticism is from the men who have worldly ideals. Heretics I might have known that yonder deep unworldly look that ever and anon floated past his eyes was peering far beyond this narrow Now. The Souls of Black Folk They formed as transcendental and unworldly a group as ever gathered about a “tea” table. Worldly Ways and Byways That fame, if he should gain it, would bring him any nearer to her, was a thought that was alien to so unworldly a temperament as his. Tales from Two Hemispheres There is no stronger case than that of the wild, unworldly and perishing stock which we commonly call the Celts, of whom your friends the MacNabs are specimens. The Wisdom of Father Brown While still retaining all a child's fanciful graces, yet she often dropped, unconsciously, words of such a reach of thought, and strange unworldly wisdom, that they seemed to be an inspiration. Uncle Tom's Cabin There was something touching in their unworldly fears and diffident hopes, something almost terrible in the way poor little Mrs. Hudson seemed to flutter and quiver with intense maternal passion. Roderick Hudson I suppose you don't conduct business on what you call unworldly principles. Middlemarch Even cops seemed to recognize that there was something peculiarly unworldly and uncriminal about this particular troublemaker. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier He was adored equally in the artistic and the social worlds, and was at once the most cynical of Don Juans and the most unworldly of Don Quixotes. Love at Second Sight Through windless ways of the night my spirit followed after; Cold and remote were they, and there, possessed By a strange unworldly rest, Awaiting thy still voice heard only starry laughter. Georgian Poetry 1918-19 My friends are at a distance; worldly hopes are at a low ebb with me, and unworldly thoughts are not yet familiarised to me, though I occasionally indulge in them. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent. Middlemarch Charlotte's aunt Dorothy, who is the cheeriest, brightest, kindest matron I ever met, with a sweet unworldly spirit that beams out of her candid blue eyes. Birds of Prey The thing was only right, though of course ridiculous in the eyes of worldly people, said the far from unworldly poet. Home Again Mr. Bloomfield bore himself with a kind of unworldly grace, and Mrs. Bloomfield with a kind of sweet primness. Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 He took the Squire's outstretched hand, grasping it cordially, a pure, unworldly dignity in his whole look and bearing. Robert Elsmere Helen was sufficiently Bohemian or sufficiently unworldly to care little if people criticised her way of living. The Pagans My good, unworldly grandfather fell in love with this girl, and married her. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 He was an austere man, and had the reputation of being singularly unworldly, for a river man. Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. Mrs. Makely, I admit, without further dispute, that the most unworldly woman is worldlier than the worldliest man; and that in all practical matters we fade into dreamers and doctrinaires beside you. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance Too modest, perhaps—too unworldly; too foolish, or too proud: who can tell? Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia The priest, the before-mentioned Pastor Ussing, a little, nervous, intelligent and unworldly man, was a pious dreamer, whose religion was entirely rationalistic. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth An unworldly, gentle woman, who had somehow told her daughter-in-law without words that she knew what was missing in her woman's heart. Together Christian virtues are sometimes thought to be unreal and unworldly things. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark But how languid and torpid the true Christian life has been! how little enthusiasm! how little depth of communion with God! how little unworldly elevation of soul! how little glow of love! Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah He could be stirred to acts of unworldly enthusiasm; he would share his last crust with some shipwrecked sailor, or shed his blood gaily for a generous idea. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia It was an unworldly soul which asked but for such a legacy. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII It is highly probable, too, that just now there was a heightening of the divine expression on that unworldly face, derived from an intensification of the inner life. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions She is faithful to her trust, as the companion of him who fell at his post, and is doubtless happy in obedience to the unworldly motives that guide her determination. Journal of an African Cruiser Mr Irving had met Berene on a railroad train, and had conceived one of those sudden and intense passions with which a woman with a past often inspires an innocent and unworldly young man. An Ambitious Man Not Siward, amused by her sagacious and impulsive prudence, worldliness, and innocence in accepting Quarrier; and touched by her profitless, frank, and unworldly friendliness for himself. The Fighting Chance He was a natural hunter, roamer, woodsman; as unworldly as a child, and as simple and transparent. John James Audubon Griefs clustered thickly about the closing years of this unworldly dreamer. Old Calabria There is only one way by which Christ's kingdom can stand firm, and that is its unworldly contrast to all the manner of human dominion. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII For now it was the man who followed with intent, unworldly eyes that which I, with my lesser vision, could not discern. From a Bench in Our Square Then, moved by some strange impulse in the presence of this pure, unworldly girl, Stephen Potter suddenly spoke out, for the first time since his boyhood, with absolute sincerity. Saxe Holm's Stories If we represent things as they are, their intensity, their depth, their unworldly gravity and earnestness, must inevitably repel lighter spirits, as the reverse pole of the magnet drives off sticks and straws. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 He was a gentle, kindly, most unworldly little man, with extraordinary eyes, which seem even in the lifeless portraits to reflect some unusual hypnotic power. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World When she had gone out of the room, Mrs. Delano said to herself, "That darling child, with her strange history and unworldly ways, is educating me more than I can educate her." A Romance of the Republic Very unworldly were this young man and this young woman, in the matter of sale and purchase. Mercy Philbrick's Choice Terrible places to enter, and most unworldly people to visit, we fancy some of our Protestant friends will say; but we saw nothing very agonising or dreadful—not even in the confessionals. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston His views were utterly unworldly and opposed to those generally held, but they were in the main right. Beneath the Banner She spoke much of the beauty and worth of her character, and said that though educated in the gayest circles of court, she had always preserved the same unworldly purity. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 For once in my life I have pinned my faith on the unspoilt soul of an unworldly woman. Temporal Power Waiving however this one instance of something like compliance with the brutal spirit of the world, on all other subjects he was eminently unworldly, child-like, simple-minded, and upright. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater He was a little man, with an unworldly air, and very clear truthful eyes. The Hallam Succession The amusing and lovely group seated about the base of the column have a certain chic habit of pointing elbows, wrists and ankles that lends an unworldly attraction. The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition To Ethel Fleet's unworldly nature, that he should fall in love with and marry his employer's daughter seemed eminently fitting, with just a spice of beautiful romance. Barriers Burned Away Pardon me, Sir," returned Von Glauben calmly; "There is no goddess of Wisdom here, so please you, but only a very simple and unworldly young woman. Temporal Power "No use for you to go, Billy," said Mrs. Norris, with marvellous diplomacy for such a simple, unworldly farmer's wife to suddenly acquire. The Moccasin Maker Mr. Brassey's wife said of him that "he was a most unworldly man." Lectures and Essays He had met this unworldly, inexperienced prairie girl but twice, and on her part she had betrayed no particular attraction for him. Flowing Gold It is a vague, impossible ideal, with a rude sort of unworldly moral beauty, like the gospel of the Doukhobors. A Modern Utopia "I fear your mother would never give her consent to so unworldly a choice," he said, with a troubled brow. Nature's Serial Story But the unworldly Dr. Marks was wholly absorbed in the blessed truth that the dead was alive and the lost found. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century "Yes, Frank, in your home; but never forlorn while I have you to laugh at, and never poor while I possess your big, unworldly heart." From Jest to Earnest I had at least looked unworldly when I had visited the small Thomas in bed; of that I was glad. The Professional Aunt Utopias were once in good faith, projects for a fresh creation of the world and of a most unworldly completeness; this so-called Modern Utopia is a mere story of personal adventures among Utopian philosophies. A Modern Utopia It's scarcely unworldly to make the most and the best of the world one is in, and mamma must permit me to judge for myself, as she chose for herself. Nature's Serial Story The sacred quiet of the place was disturbed only by the quill of the writer, who was penning words as unworldly as himself. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century He is so young, chivalric, and unworldly that he may think it a noble thing to help us fight out our battle; but will he think so in coming years? Without a Home "Such worldly wisdom," laughed Rose, "from such an unworldly woman!" Old Rose and Silver After all, there WAS a certain divinity hedging a minister, even a poor, unworldly, abstracted one. Rainbow Valley His private tradition was equally wild and unworldly. The Ball and the Cross Absolutely unworldly as she was, she had very good manners; in her evasive way she was certainly qualified to be the leader of society in Eastridge, and socially Eastridge thought fairly well of itself. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors I was coming along the corridor just now, and I met the angelic and unworldly Priscilla. A Sweet Girl Graduate It had been years since he had talked to a young woman who was witty and unworldly. Half a Rogue She and Mrs. Tarbury exchanged a look, and Julia knew exactly what concessions her mother had made before the reconciliation; knew just how sincere this unworldly wifely devotion was. The Story of Julia Page And with that the man of the world was struck dumb, and, as in all intolerable moments, the word was with the unworldly. The Ball and the Cross The regret was so unaffected, so unselfish, and so unworldly, that each, after his own fashion, admired and marvelled at it. Outpost As a rule, in such books, the whole conception of boyhood seems at fault; a boy is generally represented as a generous, heedless, unworldly creature. The Upton Letters She still looked very cold, but she succeeded in looking serene, and her eyes, unworldly and pure, did not fall before Lady Ingleton's. In the Wilderness He was not sure whether he felt superior to his unworldly enemy or not. Aaron's Rod Some of the most unworldly people I know have not overcome the world at all; they have merely made terms with it, and have found that abnegation is only more comfortable than conquest. Watersprings "You will come and live with me, but not marry me!" exclaimed the young man, with a gleam of amusement at the unworldly proposal lighting his dark eyes. Outpost My brother-in-law, Charles, is an excellent fellow, full to the brim of small plans and designs for his parish; my sister is a very simple and unworldly person, entirely devoted to her husband and children. The Upton Letters I am what is called"—she smiled faintly—"a woman of the world, and you, I think, are an unworldly man. In the Wilderness Belief—belief in God—belief in all things noble, unworldly, lofty, and beautiful, is rapidly being crushed underfoot by—what? A Romance of Two Worlds Howard found himself respecting the Vicar more and more; he was so kindly, so unworldly, so full of perfectly guileless satisfaction: he was conscious too of his own irrepressibility. Watersprings She was the least self-centred and self-scanned of human beings, unworldly and uncomplaining. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One |
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