| 单词 | graceless |
| 例句 | Our company was composed of bodies too short or too tall, all graceless and all—except mine—pale. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignorant, graceless and rough, she ran away from home. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Chickens came in and out like my relatives’ graceless peasant guests. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was entirely graceless, rather tall and badly angled, built of dark red brick. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z My feet snapped over my head and I continued my graceless plunge to the ground. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The slight gracelessness of my walk, which Dr. Luce had commented on, predisposed me to join die graceless sex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The kisses turn messy, then, urgent and graceless, and Alex gets lost in the drag and slide and press of Henry’s lips, the sweet liquor of it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Amaranta, the younger, was somewhat graceless, but she had the natural distinction, the inner tightness of her dead grandmother. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He has seen these graceless birds on windowsills and sidewalks, but never in trees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Coach Murphy still haunts the old fields where his boys bunted down the line, and with graceless fever took infield in voices that cried out for fathers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The boats are cheap, graceless, clumsy affairs, as much out of place in what people are calling the ‘Court of Honor’ of the Exposition as a cow in a flower garden.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As a member of the New England literary world he cut a graceless figure and had an inauspicious professional start. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z His camera floats over cornfields listening to the rustling of the stalks, but the somewhat graceless stabs of grandeur in "At Any Price" don't register in this uneven but respectably ambitious heartland drama. Review: 'At Any Price' doesn't register 2013-04-24T22:52:09Z Scott wrote in his review for The Times, “is that in spite of her name, she’s spectacularly graceless, utterly lacking in the poised femininity that the pageant celebrates.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Mr. Soul!’ and the Golden Globes 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Krasner, so often represented as the woman with the graceless face who was somehow allowed to be Pollock’s caretaker, turns out to have had her own sexual magnetism. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z It is tempting to view awkwardness as the fault of particularly graceless individuals, but it is a fundamentally social phenomenon. The bond of the awkward 2010-12-31T17:30:00Z In the full, clear desert light, it looked forlorn, a graceless jumble of glass and steel. Lost in Las Vegas 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z By posting food and drink pictures, we’ve become graceless sheep with hungry cameras. Perspective | My month without social media: Less hunger, more time — and who cares about food trends, anyway? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z There’s no way to talk about arousal or its attendant feelings with dignity, so I’ll start with a frank and graceless admission. “Game of Thrones” fails the female gaze: Why does prestige TV refuse to cater erotically to women? 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Interaction among all them all is fitful, graceless and sometimes potentially violent, as if the rules for social behavior have been long forgotten. ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Tucci is pretty much the only reason to see this graceless leviathan of a movie. Transformers: Age of Extinction, peak of destruction porn – first look review 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Manchin and the reporters move down the hallway together in a practiced but graceless shuffle. One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z That graceless day is, perhaps, the ultimate destination of the series. Paper Giants: Magazine Wars - TV review 2013-06-02T15:04:00Z Imagine Harry Potter with nothing but Muggles – mean, graceless people without a trace of magic. JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy has critics in a muggle of magic metaphors 2012-09-28T14:39:19Z Louisa is just the latest example of the most well-worn of romantic tropes: making your female lead clumsy, socially graceless, or generally inept in order to make her more “relatable.” We like women better when they fall: “Me Before You” stumbles into the same old “relatable” trap 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z And why has this graceless word become the moniker for this month’s abstinence? I don’t call it Drynuary, but I still stop drinking every year for a month. Here’s why. 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z And that mutability extends to her portrait of Amy, who is laughably irritating and graceless except when she stumbles into a moment of good will. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z After King derided Morgan’s interview skills and called him pompous, Morgan responded on Twitter on Friday that King was a “graceless, petty little man.” Larry King and Piers Morgan trade jabs 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Even if these dance phrases occurred to silence, they would be graceless and inexpressive. Dance Review: A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young 2011-03-29T22:06:43Z Gender can be the graceless act of discovery and affirmation, the ugly vitality of blood, the patient organizing and reshaping of something that’s never before been listened to correctly. He’s a Transgender Archivist and a Vampire, and He’s in Love 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z One of the main hotels, a graceless rectangular prism, became a drafty concrete husk. Skiing Kosovo, Abandoned Lifts and All 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z We learn that Mendoza changed pugilism from a graceless slugfest into a “scientific” sport in which fist-pounding became secondary to agility and precision. | 'The Punishing Blow': Randy Cohen?s History Lesson at Clurman Theater 2010-08-22T22:57:00Z But the most graceless of all might be the ones based on a spectacle of racial catharsis, in which a white penitent is guided by a black person through a process of self-reflection and self-reproach. Bill Maher’s Weird, Effortful Apology for Saying the N-Word 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z My father insisted after he saw me doggy paddling around the lake, a graceless exercise that was punctuated by a few worrying dips below the surface. How I knew I could cook: It's easy, if you're born to it 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Through binoculars, I studied their graceless, cartoon-character bodies and rows of stubby teeth. Not those gators: Improbable fauna 10 minutes from downtown Gainesville 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z With a graceless leap I plunged from the safety of the boat into San Francisco Bay, cursing myself for the foolhardiness of willingly reconstructing the most infamous and desperate prison escape in history. Escape from Alcatraz: a swim from the Rock to the San Francisco shore 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Careering into each other like runaway bumper cars, they create a gracefully graceless ballet of kinetic dysfunction, appropriate to characters who have never learned how to handle the lethal weapon that is the human body. Review: ‘Yen’ Is a Den of Family Dysfunction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z His two newly discovered half sisters kept the good stuff and palmed off on him what they thought was a graceless painting of an angel, signed by Perugino. Review | A look at art experts who can identify a painter’s work with a glance 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z They are as graceless as bludgeon strikes, but as effective too. What if the Meat We Ate Was Human? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z In one of the unpublished manuscripts, Williams wrote of playwrights as "those unattractively awkward, embarrassed, graceless, blushing, fidgeting, shuffling, stammering, wretches". Tennessee Williams lambasted his rivals as 'vampires' 2013-02-17T00:06:15Z Many of us remember when Mr. Huxley seemed classically impeccable but cautious, while Mr. Ramasar was willing but graceless; now they’ve valuable artists. Review: Five by Balanchine, Stark and Dramatic, at City Ballet 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Soulless, joyless and depressingly graceless, “Alien Girl” plays like an early Guy Ritchie knockoff without the jokes or Cockney accents. Russian Gangsters Run Amok 2010-12-17T05:43:01Z I may never find my old walk again, but I hope someday to see beauty in the graceless limp back toward it. Opinion: K’naan, on Censoring Himself For Success 2012-12-08T18:30:19Z On George W. Bush’s last day in the White House, Obama is angry to see protesters, thinking it “graceless and unnecessary” to protest a man in the final hours of his presidency. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z But many looked relieved to be away from our app-crazed and graceless present. Scene City: Decades Ball Benefits Lapham?s Quarterly - Scene City 2012-05-17T20:05:37Z Playing a woman who suffers from chronic pain and an addiction to the painkillers meant to numb it, her face is scarred and shiny, her gait pained and graceless. Watch Jennifer Aniston Get Unglamorous in the Trailer for Cake 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Modern dance can be beautiful and athletic but Odile's choreography was graceless and flat-footed. Reader reviews: your take on Schaufuss's Swan Lake and Rylance's Richard III 2012-07-27T15:06:00Z Sardjoe's arsenal of pounding rolls and bossy, peremptory cymbal crashes sounds a shade graceless at first, and the staccato interlockings of angular melodies make the theory sound more dominant than the practice for a while. MSG: Tasty! ? review 2010-12-23T22:00:03Z The Art Nouveau apartment buildings sit cheek by jowl with graceless office blocks, especially in the dowdy European quarter. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z I was graceless enough not to just accept it. Joan Baez on 3 Days of Pregnancy and Priggishness at Woodstock 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z “Eyes on the Street” is graceless, infantilizing of its subject and strangely unbuttoned in tone. Review: It’s Jane Jacobs’s World We Live In 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The film is so graceless and bizarre in its attempts at tugging at the viewer’s emotions that it often feels like a work of parody. ‘Ride On’ Review: Jackie Chan, Back on the Horse 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z By the end, he had a Glock 19, a gun as “graceless as a stapler” but the warrior tool that could stop a testosterone-poisoned death freak trying to shoot a U.S. congresswoman. ‘Gun Guys’: Searching for the secret of devotion to guns 2013-03-07T20:47:22Z It didn’t matter that Gerald Ford was an athlete: Chevy Chase, who made little effort to look or sound like him, convinced America that Ford was a graceless klutz. Critic?s Notebook: Comparing Fred Armisen?s ?SNL? Obama to Dana Carvey?s Bush 2011-12-05T06:52:36Z When he solos, he’s wild and gestural and sometimes graceless. New Releases From Brad Paisley and Ty Segall 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z His “Indivisible From the Sheen of Plastic,” at Civilian Art Projects, gazes intently at architectural minutiae, often mundane and graceless. Review | In the galleries: Where have all the people gone? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z This comment was not funny in any context, so it can’t be characterized as a joke, but I hope you will forgive his graceless reaction to you. Ask Amy: Snark takes the wind out of wind ensemble 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Early on, we see dancers hiking their hips sideways to achieve maximum height in extension; and this prepares us for the basically strenuous, graceless nature of this tedious array. Mikhailovsky Ballet, Full of Stars at Lincoln Center 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Catalog dumps are typically graceless, but here is an example with historical merit and also a sense of wit. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Efficient but graceless and no place you’d linger in Train stations had individual styles and great services reflecting the cities they served not corporate connections. In Transit Blog: Ask a Railroad Station Expert 2011-12-28T15:43:27Z Whatever the cause, it's a graceless change, and One Day, such a treat on the page, ends up being just another day at the movies. 'One Day' Review: A Page Turner Becomes a Head Scratcher 2011-08-18T17:35:00Z But the graceless mechanics prevent us from sinking fully into the world of the show, and in the parade of briefly glimpsed players, several inevitably come off as caricatures. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Prohibition begins 2010-09-20T12:53:00Z The new courthouse, despite its graceless tower, became Ritchie’s calling card. A fireproof ‘Cruel Castle’ rose on First Hill after Seattle's big blaze 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z He describes his co-star in The Piano, the American actor Harvey Keitel, as "truculent and difficult and a bit graceless". Sam Neill diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z In this coarse and graceless age, believing that our similarities eclipse our differences might be derided as Pollyannish. Opinion | How to counter today’s tribalism and build ‘a more perfect union’ 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z As Darren, Williams perfectly embodies the effortless physical grace — and the graceless condescension — of the lavishly compensated player who’s better at the game than everyone else, and never lets them forget it. Review | ‘Take Me Out’ loads the Broadway bases with wit and incisive drama 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z But in the aftermath of a very divisive election, I thought it would be graceless to do so and possibly damaging to the nation. With bizarre rant, Trump offers a sneak peek into his second term 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Delegates to Oregon’s Constitutional Convention of 1857 expressed the “holy horror of your California graceless, godless school of politicians” coming to Oregon in search of office, Rosenblum said. Kristof tries to show that Oregon is home in governor’s bid 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Yet this in turn invites an obvious retort: If word choice is such a minor matter, why does this graceless and unbeloved neologism keep showing up in newspaper headlines and stump speeches? Opinion | The debate over ‘Latinx’ highlights a broader problem for Democrats 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the prose rarely rises above graceless and the plot is so farfetched and convoluted that it is difficult to follow. Review: CNN anchor Jake Tapper fails in covering a thriller 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Lin tore down the graceless expansions, preserving only the shell of the original Lord & Hewlett building. How a pandemic year of loss reshaped Maya Lin's art and architecture 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z “There is not a university in the country that would exhibit this degree of thoughtless, dismissive and graceless ignorance of the death of a parent of their largest donor,” Moore wrote. Univ. of South Carolina leaders take blame for donor’s ire 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z Smug, graceless, short of self-awareness – he somehow believes extra bureaucracy will make businesses “match fit” – and still prioritising point scoring over trying to bring the country back together. On Boris's big day, Tories kid themselves this is the deal they always wanted | John Crace 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z She is a caterwauling singer, a graceless dancer, a cheerful butcher of good sense and the English language. Enjoy these holiday shows from ACT, Scott Shoemaker and Dina Martina from the best seat in your house 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z I suppose this sour, graceless tweet shouldn’t surprise us. Opinion | Marco Rubio is already suiting up for the politics of destruction 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z At best, their refusal to accept the presidential election result looks petty and graceless and risks what ought to be two comfortable Senate wins in Georgia. Trump's election lawsuits continue to crumble | First Thing 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z From the president, a graceless and deceptive insistence on victory after a loss that was not even close. Opinion | This is a massive failure of character among Republicans — with evangelicals out in front 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z That team is leading the championship race again, but its superiority belies a turbulent, graceless campaign that featured five defeats before the coronavirus brought the season to a halt. Andrés Iniesta Plots a Return to Barcelona, Where the Beauty Is Gone 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z So it was graceless to tell the musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra, hours after the signing of the bill, that they were to be furloughed without pay. Opinion | The Kennedy Center is wrong to stop paying the National Symphony Orchestra 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Warren fans need to admit that whatever Sanders' blind spots and graceless comments may be, he's got a long track record of support for feminist policies. Battle over sexism hurts both Warren and Sanders — but for different reasons 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Future historians will look back with horrified confusion at the spectacle of a thin-skinned, graceless old man attempting to crush the spirit of an idealistic teenage girl. Opinion | Trump has adopted the coward’s conception of heroism 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Macri, meanwhile, is an often graceless speaker, whose wooden delivery did not help when announcing unpopular government measures such as massive tariff hikes. Cristina's comeback: Fernández de Kirchner set for dramatic return as Argentina's No 2 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z That exhibit, too, seems particularly graceless in light of the weapon’s frequent use in mass shootings today. Opinion | ‘A Child’s Room’ at the NRA’s National Firearms Museum is an utterly gross display 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z But when parliament demanded an article 50 extension, May acquiesced with graceless resentment. Brexit is a sham, but Theresa May just won’t admit it | Rafael Behr 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z I say this as someone who grew up in New York: Few crowds in sports can be as graceless as those made up of people from my home town. Fellow tour pros beware: How Brooks Koepka won at Bethpage on Sunday will only make him become more difficult to beat in the future - Golf Digest 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Physically, there is no transformation to back up the timeline, plus the graceless structure renders his path to redemption unearned on an emotional level. Reviews for ‘Maria,’ ‘The Meanest Man in Texas’ and more 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Footage of Pope Francis pulling his hand away from being kissed by a long line of people has gone viral, with conservative critics condemning what they said was Francis’s “graceless disrespect for the tradition”. ‘He’s not a Roman emperor’: pope’s reluctance to have ring kissed defended 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Video of the incident in Loreto went viral, with conservative critics condemning what they said was Francis’ “graceless” disrespect for the tradition and of the faithful who wanted to honour it. Clean and jerk: pope kept pulling away hand 'for fear of spreading germs' 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z He ruled that Matt Damon had been “miserably graceless” as the star of “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z So much of what a graceless age dismisses as repression is actually politeness, compassion and dignity. Opinion | George H.W. Bush’s life proves that, sometimes, things go gloriously right 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Rage and protest will have their place in what is coming – Trump’s graceless behaviour has guaranteed that. Trump sees only his own victimhood as he apologises to Kavanaugh | Gaby Hinsliff 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Coach Janne Andersson a few days ago had expressed his strong disappointment at what he considered to be some graceless full-time celebrations from his German counterparts. World Cup 2018: Germany reaction and England v Belgium buildup – live! 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z In both Washingtons, political discourse was dominated by the values and practices of reality television and social media: nasty, shallow, personal, vile, vindictive, graceless, classless, bullying, ugly, crass and simplistic. Opinion | The rhetoric of our era has reached its vile peak 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Twenty of Ziperstein's slab-built, stacked forms line up on a single U-shaped table like a miniature boulevard of sturdy, graceless, Cold War architectural specimens with billboard skins. With 'Propaganda Pots,' Bari Ziperstein gives Cold War messages a new dimension 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Trump is simply, in his typically graceless fashion, acknowledging the fact. Trump, Aiming to Coax Xi Jinping, Bets on Flattery 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Small wonder long time Washington watchers, on both the right and left, consider this the nastiest and most graceless presidency of the modern era. The time when America stopped being great 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z “The way it was handled was graceless without making a pun,” Mr. Newhouse was quoted as saying by one of his biographers, Thomas Maier, in a 1995 article in The Quill. S.I. Newhouse Jr., Publishing Icon Who Ran Condé Nast, Dies at 89 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z But to our freedom-loving country and its traditions, his graceless words — “Fire or suspend!” — are more disrespectful still. Trump fine with punishing dissenters — if he disagrees with them 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Why were the telecast’s transitions from sobriety to levity made to feel as graceless as possible? Remind me again: Why are we watching the VMAs? 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Is everyone connected to Trump contractually obliged to match exactly his degree of graceless piggery? Louise Linton and the ‘self-sacrifice’ of a mega-rich Trump administration spouse 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z So the exact length of the grace period may yet end up in a graceless political dispute. Brexit transition: Is cabinet fully on board? - BBC News 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z More than three dozen Republicans and Democrats in Congress issued tweets of their own expressing disgust, calling the remark “unpresidential,” “vile, sexist and unbecoming of an American leader,” “divisive,” “unhinged and shameful” and “amazingly graceless.” ‘It is really not normal’: Both sides condemn Trump for vulgar tweet about TV host 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z “Thirst,” in recent black and then internet slang, describes a graceless need for approval, affection or attention, one so raw that it creeps people out. It’s Easy to Be Called ‘Thirsty’ on Social Media. What About on Capitol Hill? 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Obama’s refusal to use Washington’s veto was more than a graceless parting gesture. Obama’s Parting Betrayal of Israel 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z North Carolina Republicans should accept that they lost and end this graceless power grab. North Carolina Republicans lost. So they’re trying to change the rules. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z You’ll also experience periodic flashbacks to your relationship with your vulgar and slightly graceless star guide. The best video games of 2016: ‘Inside,’ ‘Superhot’ and ‘Doom’ come out on top 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z He was graceless and unfunny at the Al Smith dinner last month, getting booed for his boorishness. Farewell to the comic in chief 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z I was reckless and graceless and terrifying and tender. Lorde's letter, in full: 'The party is about to start. I am about to show you the new world' 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s not just that, in show-biz terms, it’s difficult to see the P.R. upside of being associated with Trump and his radically modified brand, or that to spill the beans might be seen as graceless. Memories of Trump’s Wedding 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Ailes would find no role awaiting him in the new administration, not after the cutting remarks the book quoted him as making about the graceless candidate he had helped sell voters on. Roger Ailes, a fallen TV titan who mixed politics and media 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Really, though, the most significant thing about that mic-chuck was its graceless but still welcome sense of mischief. Cristiano Ronaldo has lost his dribble – and he’s not alone at Euro 2016 | Barney Ronay 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Karl Rove, Bush’s top political adviser, has called Trump “a complete idiot,” as well as “graceless and divisive.” But two weeks ago, the two men reportedly had a private sit-down. George W. Bush administration is split over Donald Trump 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z "I thought it was entirely graceless the way some people are struggling for relevance in the assembly, they attacked someone who has stepped forward to take on a very difficult job." NI Executive: Draft programme for government agreed - BBC News 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z I'm sure he was excellent at announcing football too but CBS made the right call even if the handling was graceless. The Day Vin Scully Didn’t Land That N.F.L. Broadcasting Job 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z He is graceless and divisive, denigrating the party he seeks to lead and his competitors. Unity Won’t Come Easy for Either Party 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Alas, much like the second film, “Insurgent,” this installment disappoints with its graceless narrative, intensified violence and occasional dullness. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Trust me; industry will get this done, particularly if you shackle the graceless, bloated hand of government. Energy Agenda for President Trump or President Clinton 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z They sent countless emails to boast about the bargain eats available in the place once known as Laurel Factory, a functional and particularly graceless name for this former mill town. A definitive guide to the best cheap-eats destinations in the D.C. area 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Doing the Mashed Potato, wincing in pain, graceless under pressure, I hoot to nobody within hearing: the hell with you, Hemingway! Living With Cancer: A Farewell to Legs 1464-02-22T05:00:00Z He’s loud, angry and graceless with an accent you don’t hear much in these parts. There will be blood in South Carolina 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The survivors of the fray take to the river, in a graceless boat that resembles a log cabin, and then continue their trek, to the fur traders’ camp, on foot. The Sadistic Vision of “The Hateful Eight” 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z But the Red Bulls were resolute in their defending, and as the graceless game grinded on, United did not play with the fluidity of a team needing to win at home. United shut out by Red Bulls in first leg of Eastern Conference semifinals 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z From his office in a trailer in a salvage yard in Queens, Sam Sambucci — 6’ 1”, 300 pounds — appeals for grace in one of the most graceless corners of the city. Uncertainty Clouds Future of Willets Point and Its Oil-Stained Streets 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Morgan then called King a ‘‘poisonous twerp’’ and a ‘‘graceless, petty little man’’ on Twitter. Larry King Is Preparing for the Final Cancellation 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z "I think it's both graceless and insensitive, given that families are grieving and are aggrieved. The outcome is that what we have are a host of unanswered questions," she said. CPS criticised over decision not to review care home case - BBC News 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z It seemed too fancy to make you behave the way I understood drunk behavior – graceless, sloppy, stupid. The power of the 'casting couch' is in how it's used to shame its victims | Rebecca Carroll 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z I turn spineless around Le Pain’s baguette-shaped cakes, which the bakers call, with a graceless precision, “mango cream sticks.” Lotte Plaza: Where the food finds you 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The environment is somewhat gamified in that it records how far your robot gets, but because the movement is so often graceless, treading each clunky mile doesn’t bring much satisfaction. An App That Builds Wonder 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z You were beaten by the better team, and being graceless about it only highlights your lack of class. Seahawks' comeback cheers, Patriots' scandal jeers: Seattle Times readers sound off 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z The Lump of Coal Awards recognize managers, executives, firms, watchdogs and other fund-industry fumblers for actions, attitudes, behaviors, execution or results that are misguided, bumbling, offensive, disingenuous, ham-handed, graceless, reprehensible or just plain stupid. It’s the 2014 Lump of Coal Awards, Part 1 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z And yet Bob McDonnell’s graceless response to the watch is at the heart of his defense. The McDonnells’ Friend Jonnie 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z This was not the work of some graceless substitute, rather a plot to keep Suárez off the field. After Loss to Costa Rica, Uruguay Reexamines Itself 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z He was universally denounced as a graceless and clueless bad sport. Beyer: California Chrome co-owner Steve Coburn clearly erred. Jockey Victor Espinoza might have, too He started away, jerkily and graceless for the first few steps, then with increasing confidence, and all the way his head was turned to watch me. Tracking Down the Deer Runner 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z That struck me as a graceless declaration about a man so recently freed from a maximum-security prison. Gotham: Hynes’s Lack of Curiosity May Come at a Cost 2014-04-24T01:02:44Z He ambled forward with a lurching, graceless gait, his hands thrust in his pockets. How Mark Twain became Mark Twain: The amazing story of the lectures that made him a superstar 2014-03-22T20:00:00Z “Forgetting about whether they were legally entitled to them,” he said, “it just was such a graceless lack of self-awareness.” To Recount the Financial Implosion, a Magazine Turns to Film 2013-09-09T01:33:13Z Before his early promise solidified into championship form, London-based journalists often characterized the shy, sometimes monosyllabic and always driven player as dour and graceless. In Wimbledon Win, Murray Reunites a Divided U.K. 2013-07-08T11:35:29Z And for Benítez, the other half of that graceless double booing, these are almost rather carefree end days at Stamford Bridge. André Villas-Boas's Tottenham still a poor relation to fantastic four 2013-05-09T00:01:41Z After two or three years of this, he brought his investigation to a graceless close. With this tax dodger list the Revenue shames only itself 2013-02-22T19:30:02Z The building used for the graceless evil-doers and penniless paupers of this vicinity was not a very sightly object, and its appearance was in keeping with its hideous character. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z And then the two heads were bent together over the table, and the soft brown hair of the girl half mingled with the rough wool of the graceless numskull beside her. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Who feeds you and clothes you, you graceless hussy? Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z If you don't care for his graceless nudes you may console yourself that there is no disputing tastes—with the tasteless. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The graceless lad gazed round, and it struck him that the chapels were not unlike so many mangers. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Then our magistrate, Squire Bullock, was stopped and robbed on the King's highway—ay, and roundly cursed for a Tory thief—by this same graceless giant in buckskin who brought you here. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Who—worshipping, if not strong enough to serve, the Ideal—can endure the graceless ignorance of his subject betrayed by many a biographer, accepted and accomplished in his style? Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z She is not the duke: she is a poor, good lass, that hath waited not minutes, but years, for a graceless son of mine. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Don't laugh at that "pathology," for some graceless graduate will laugh at yours in 1989. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Figure 125 A tall, slender, rather graceless eagle with broad wings and erect head reminiscent of the Napoleonic eagle is the outstanding difference in this third example of the series. American Military Insignia 1800-1851 2012-02-04T03:00:18.780Z Good cause for fear had she, the graceless witch! Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Scape′gallows, one who deserves hanging: a villain; Scape′grace, a graceless hare-brained fellow. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z He had consorted with idle and graceless companions, and made himself a reproach to the authorities of the college. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z There was no anger in her voice, only a wondering melancholy, a kind of piteous despair that she was living in so graceless a world. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z So Pope, �For forms and creeds let graceless zealots fight.� The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z I trust that love will never tease Poor little Di, or prove that he's A graceless rover. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Mrs. Clark is a graceless enough woman outwardly, but so tenderly feathered inwardly, so unaffectedly kind and motherly toward the urchins under her roof, that one was glad to leave them in that provident nest. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z What there is not at my house," she went on to Se�ora de Calder�n, giving her a sounding kiss on each cheek, "is a woman so graceless and so insignificant as you. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z "You are fond of me a little bit," the graceless Tom whispered, "aren't you?" The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z In the sweet spring a grassy bank I sought, And thither wine, and a fair Houri brought; And, though the people called me graceless dog, Gave not to Paradise another thought! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The Right Honourable Lady," chanted the graceless Timothy, "then resumed her seat amid applause, having spoken for an hour and fifty minutes. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z A priest passed,—a genuine Don Basilio, in inky gown and shovel-hat; and these graceless grooms looked after him, thrust their tongues into their cheeks, and made an irreverent grimace. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z The use of keyboards is mawkish and graceless. McCartney Gets Back to Beatlemania With Rolling Stone on Tour 2011-12-07T06:28:36Z Then, that refreshing season in the Sacristy, with a graceless young Sub-Deacon, intent upon extending to us all the hospitalities of the church. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z Dearest Edith, Hideous and infamous, yes, my interminable, my abjectly graceless silence. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z For mumbled meter, leaden pun, For slipshod rhyme, and lazy word, Have pity on this graceless one— Thy mercy on Thy servant, Lord! Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z There is a graceless innuendo in the term nature, as of something hard, gross, material. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z I would have thee to know, thou graceless old man, that I defy a nunnery: Name a nunnery once more, and I disown thee for my father. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z The buffalo is nearly extinct, and with him is vanishing much of the bluff, graceless assertiveness of demeanor which was once deemed essential by most citizens to the display of native independence. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z It has been a very horrible visitation, but I am getting better; only I am still in bed and have to appeal to you in this graceless mechanical way. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z His gawky, graceless body and long arms seemed to cover the whole court. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z "The old man is back," quoth Nick, sliding a graceless arm around her. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z The graceless modern reader might suspect that the “stable-yard understanding” included the parson. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z It has now a graceless and savage aspect when we are close to it. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z It is too strange and too graceless—or would be so if you hadn't just put into it a grace for which, as I say, I can scarce sufficiently thank you. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z "What do ye mean, ye graceless?" added she, in a voice betokening a sort of horror. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z Last, in graceless pose, Half prone, A luckless lout, caught by the blast, one knows His tone Means oaths; his hat, straight as fly crows, Has flown. Mr. Punch at the Seaside 2011-08-24T02:00:23.487Z At the very beginning of the voyage, Benjamin and his graceless friend Ralph had an unusual stroke of good luck. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z It is idle for good and serious souls to think me graceless here with this talk of tobacco immediately after such a release. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z I can't—and it makes me feel so awkward and graceless and poor. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z How I wish that this graceless Nicholas, this unruly nephew of mine, were such an one as thou! McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z Ruth was just about to drag her chum into this doorway when a figure plunged out of it—a thin, graceless figure in a rain-garment of some kind—and little else, as it proved. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z His smile broadening, Marbridge turned to Matthias; received from him a look that was as good as a kick, gave back a grin of graceless effrontery; and swinging, linked arms with Tankerville. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z The graceless youths of his class set it to the good old Scotch tune of that name. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z "To whom speak ye in this shameless manner, graceless knaves?" exclaimed Luis, unconsciously laying a hand where it had been his practice to carry a rapier. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z I’ve a book here to read,” declared the graceless and lazy stout girl. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z In some way the garage keeper settled with Farmer Jones, hushed up the matter, and sent his graceless son on a sea voyage. Airship Andy or The Luck of a Brave Boy 2011-06-13T02:00:31.130Z Was it their graceless treasurer who now demanded admittance? Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z He has had a good record there ever since, and I have been very unhappy that he has suffered so much on my graceless friend’s account. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z "Net result, old dear," murmured my graceless informant, pressing the bell for another cocktail, "nix—a frost absolute, a frost complete." Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z "Very well," said she, and this morning she has made the excuse to go to the grocery for yeast, and is waiting here for the graceless Solomon. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z He remembered those graceless "boys" roasting eggs by the fire at night, and he thought how little they deserved her kindness; but all he did was to murmur his appreciation. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Meanwhile, unconscious of the treacherous thoughts that settled in the brain of their graceless treasurer, thirteen girls were working heart and hand after school hours toward perfecting their cherished plan. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z "Oh, but I'd rather come when you are prepared," said the graceless Carson. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The masters of the college deliberated how they should punish the graceless poet. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z They charge at the birds in a graceless attempt to get the best shot. | A Species Settles In, Notice the Long Lenses 2011-05-05T11:15:05Z She rushed out, and meeting her page on the way: "Ah, graceless boy!" she exclaimed, "you never told me the blood of France was being spilt." Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z Cargo ships like the are graceless, flat-bottomed steel brutes designed for abusive loads, heavily ballasted to keep them from turning turtle with the weight of cargo. Returning to Life in Kamaishi 2011-04-21T21:00:19Z As true as I live, Ellen, she has drawn you into the same graceless habit. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z When first issued the “Dei gratia” was omitted from the inscription, and they were frequently referred to as the “Godless” or “graceless” florins. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The graceless, stout old man looked very touching to me. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z You have lost that only which it was impossible to retain; and it were graceless amid the pleasures of a prosperous summer to regret the blossoms of a transient spring. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z They swung their heads toward him, jaws moving in graceless discord as they continued to chew the grass with which they had filled them. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z Come here, you baggage," turning to Celeste, who was blushing most becomingly; "will you have this graceless scamp, here, for your lord and master? Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z The mismatch at the heart of the series is still weirdly compelling – these giant, graceless characters who find themselves lumbering into sudden, hyperkinetic gunfights. Gears of War 3: multiplayer hands-on 2011-02-28T14:27:19Z And because he’s fat, a lot of people, consciously or not, tend to assume certain things about Christie — that he’s undisciplined and impulsive, graceless and bullying. How Chris Christie Did His Homework 2011-02-24T17:57:37Z Dempster took the opportunity of escaping in a thoroughly graceless manner. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z The last thing Sir Guy would dream of would be to envy you my graceless society. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Well, I hope Miss Lizzie won't have anything to do with him if he is, and go throw herself away on a graceless scamp like Miss Esther did. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z She was my best friend when I was a graceless schoolboy, and takes an interest in the poor exile now.' The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z I asked the Satyr how he managed to induce the runaways to come back, and the graceless rascal informed me that he told them I had gone back home! A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z It is another prank of that graceless boy of mine. Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z Thou hast put on our human flesh and wast crucified and buried for us thankless and graceless men, and through Thine own blood Thou hast renewed our human nature which is corrupted by sin. Orthodox Daily Prayers 2011-01-18T03:00:12.820Z Mr. Simcoe's tracts fluttered into the doors of all the doctor's cottages, and were taken as greedily as honest Mrs. Portman's soup, with the quality of which the graceless people found fault. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z See him when and where thou wilt, Alicia," returned the knight, "I fear me you will have seen but a graceless suitor, from all I have learned through the scrivener Grasp. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Some people have the misfortune to be graceless, awkward and repellant; others are unattractive if not positively disagreeable to every one—bad-tempered, perhaps, or mischief-makers. With God in the World A Series of Papers 2010-12-20T17:12:19.523Z I'm not the graceless wretch I have been. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z Sarries are down and out Saracens are headed for the exit door in the Heineken Cup after their 24-21 defeat by Racing Métro at Vicarage Road and they are leaving in graceless fashion. Up & Under: Wales fly-half Stephen Jones faces scan on knee injury 2010-12-13T00:06:00Z They departed in graceless fashion thanks to the increasingly bizarre behaviour of their director of rugby, Brendan Venter. Saracens 21-24 Racing M?tro 2010-12-13T00:06:00Z The regal pendulum of political change — people used to speak of 30-year cycles — has devolved into a graceless, relentless metronome, clicking out heroes and spewing bums in political nanoseconds. After the Bruising: Where Obama Goes From Here 2010-11-19T14:25:00Z “This is it,” he said, nodding at what is now a graceless apartment building. Missing Judge Is Tracked Down, Fictionally 2010-08-05T12:20:00Z “This is it,” he said, nodding at the graceless apartment building that had, in the local manner, risen to take its place. Judge Crater Case Is Solved in Peter Quinn?s Novel 2010-08-04T22:39:00Z A year on, his graceless departure still rankles. The Championship 2010-11: What to expect from the coming season 2010-08-01T00:47:00Z His exit from town was graceless to a degree few could have ever imagined. Cleveland Browns 2010 Season Preview 2010-07-31T10:00:00Z He called Gilbert’s reaction understandable “but a bit graceless and over the top.” A Statement Hits Home as Cleveland Stews 2010-07-10T00:51:00Z Why they are so graceless and clueless and nasty? Outrage! Paul McCartney makes Bush joke! 2010-06-04T18:30:00Z Kazoos accompanied his shots; huge cymbal crashes his graceless tumbles on to the turf. Humberto Suazo: the fat boy who helped transform Zaragoza's season | Sid Lowe 2010-04-05T12:29:00Z And he a proper youth—not one of these graceless rascals who yelp at Carr’s heels!” The Great Mogul Away!" he gasped, when he could get breath to say it; "away, graceless child! Idonia: A Romance of Old London A pang of the old apprehension that my little heiress of a mistress might lose her heart to a graceless fortune-hunter! Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune To you, a bold, graceless stranger, I granted life at the first; to you I gave the liberty of my dearest haunt. The Unknown Sea But the graceless Huskies had small respect for a stick when not in the hands of a man, and they closed in about the little group in a very menacing way. Ti-Ti-Pu A Boy of Red River "God forgive me, Bet—I'm a beast, a graceless, selfish beast!" cried his lordship, clasping her in his arms. Our Admirable Betty A Romance "Thou art but a graceless lad to be chilling thy marrow at an open window," she cried; yet I could see she was rather pleased than wrathful to find me there. Idonia: A Romance of Old London All very much alike, it is true,—"our spring style,"—and often ill-fitting and graceless; but we seem to fill a national want. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 I suppose you have tumbled into love with some graceless fellow—some one who would shoot me just to marry an orphan. Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind "Ah!" that graceless scamp chuckled, with a suspicious look at our downcast faces, "been improving the opportunity, eh?" Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth "Indeed, dear sir, what with her airy graces and her graceless airs I do shudder for her future, my very soul positively—shivers!" Our Admirable Betty A Romance And a graceless but fascinating woman at that. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel Dear as you 65 are to me, I would much rather you should have found a grave in the ocean you have crossed, than see you an immoral, profligate, or graceless child.” Lives of Celebrated Women But she was not strong enough to stand up against Dorothy and Phyllis and their powerful following, so she cast in her lot with the rebels and said no more against the graceless plan. Just Gerry The result was Orlandino, a tale for children, relating the fortunes and reformation of a graceless truant. Maria Edgeworth Gentlemen, you are too graceless a crew for grace, but you understand the laws of hospitality, that much I grant you. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle The Franklin has at home a graceless cub and heir of his own. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 He was a lanky, freckled, graceless thing; but—I wanted him! A Question of Marriage Mr. George Gwinne sprawled at his graceless ease along two chairs; he held a long-stemmed brier-wood pipe between his bearded lips and puffed thoughtfully. Stepsons of Light After his visits, during his father's lifetime, to England and the Low Countries, he rarely travelled farther, as his graceless son satirically hinted, than from Madrid to Aranjuez, or Madrid to the Escorial. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 He was personally genial—a dark, bulky man, somewhat heavy and graceless in aspect in his later years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The whole arrangement she stigmatizes as a graceless one and a blot on the Company's escutcheon. Seeds of Pine The graceless king had the effrontery to include Lady Castlemaine in the list of appointees for the queen's following. Women of England Obscene songs were sung in my presence, which, graceless fellow as I was, I could not hear without disgust and horror; and what I saw done, was still more revolting to my sense of decency. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors This jest of the graceless son had an edge to it. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 Thanks to graceless additions in all possible styles and combinations of styles, the Romanesque origin is hardly recognizable. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Spring is a wilding horsewoman, sweet and graceless, pirouetting a-tiptoe and waving to us kisses. Seeds of Pine Oh, hapless he that on the graceless Yankee dog relies! Second Book of Verse A translation of the mass of them would form a most desirable hymn book for the Christian, though, to be sure, it would be very graceless to supplant worthy old Dr. Watts. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. His slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller. Ancestors A Novel "That boy deserves a sound whipping," says Sir Mark, indignantly, who is, nevertheless, a sworn friend of the graceless Jacky. Portia or By Passions Rocked It is folly to seek grace at a graceless face. A Prince of Good Fellows You are losing patience with your graceless neophyte.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part "And like Bella Fitzgerald," says that graceless person, with a little grimace. Rossmoyne A mess-mate, a graceless, gallant fellow, who at the war's end had fallen, dying, into his arms, had sent by him a last word of penitent love to his mother, an aged widow. John March, Southerner D—m me, Sir, says a graceless comrade of his to a great man, your Grace will go to the Devil. The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts There is a dismal, graceless, bald air about town and house and master, which is utterly revolting to the lad, whose childish feet had pattered beside the tender Rachel along the embowered paths of Ashfield. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 The nasal psalmody, full of turns and trills and graceless graces, seemed the essential voice of the kirk itself upraised in thanksgiving. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston He stormed and raged and wondered aloud what he had done that he should be saddled with such a graceless nephew. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out And, at any rate, the gay and graceless monarch, in search of a hiding-place, might have gone farther and fared worse. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations Of course I remember you very well, and the Skye terrier to which you refer—a heavy, dull, fatted, graceless creature he grew up to be—was 429 my own particular pet. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) But their importunity made a hermitage in Paris impossible; a graceless friend even surprised the philosopher in bed at eleven in the morning meditating and taking notes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" But the graceless Henrietta stuck her tongue out and stole into the passage, whence she hoped to reach the workroom unobserved. Skipper Worse And so he gathered that graceless group around him. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Then, later, he again sought the graceless Tito. Carmen Ariza Your intentions are all very honorable, but you are a graceless intruder. That Mother-in-Law of Mine And again— "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The populace, he decided, as he strode along in the midst of half a dozen silent guards, were as harsh and graceless as their architecture. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 But Mrs. Forrester, though granting to his supposed plight a glance of sympathetic concern, was in a hurry to get home and he was, again, spared the necessity of a graceless confession. Tante "Thou graceless varlet, hast thou a wish that I should fulfil the promise I made thee a short time since?" Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. So Horace does not at once open his arms that his Lydia may fall into them—but stands hesitatingly, rather foolish, his hands behind him, and puts forward the supposition If—that graceless peace-maker. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 She had learned it from one of her damsels, who had had it from Shloumi the Droll, a graceless, humorous rogue, steering betwixt Jews and Christians his shifty way to profit. Dreamers of the Ghetto She had discarded the heavy riding-hat and senseless bonnet, those graceless inventions of some cunning milliner, and had adopted a head-dress not unusual in the country in which she then was. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 It was she who had opened hostilities, yet she almost made him forget it; she almost made him feel that he alone had been graceless. Tante It mattered nothing that she loved hopelessly a graceless runagate--and knew it well. Nobody And the graceless saloon bums dropped their cards and came trooping up together. Hidden Water Anne Boleyn shares the royal bed And wears upon her graceless head The good queen's crown without chagrin— The play is o'er! The Loom of Life Her graceless carriage was not improved by the difficulty of keeping step with her escort and the added task of keeping step with the music. In a Little Town Wild, graceless Carmen!�Though yet this be, Savour she hath of a world undreamt, Of a world of wonder, whose salt young sea Provoked a Venus to rise and tempt. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems Those will be mine, precisely, when I talk to my graceless nephew. Nobody He has a son, Sam, a graceless wight, witty, and, like his father fond of mint juleps and other palatable "fluids." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. Ignorant of his boy's graceless existence, he fumed at the first fine thing in the boy's life. Ghetto Comedies In time gone by she had set her heart on a graceless sailor lad who was drowned at sea, much to the relief of her parents. The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. With a graceless concession she opened the door. The Roof Tree There was no doubt but what Evans had advised his graceless nephew of the intended visit of Ralph to Bridgeport. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer They are destined to a graceless and ignoble ruin. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome They were all wretchedly clothed in graceless rags, and formed a bitter and depressing contrast to the magnificence of nature. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Marguerite, tall and stout, her head wrapped in a linen coif held in place with a net of pearls, stood with a sudden, graceless lunge that knocked her chair over. The Saracen: The Holy War This was intolerable to the spoilsmen in politics; and within two years he was summarily dismissed in a manner as graceless and cruel as any President, no matter how unfortunately bred, was ever guilty of. Ulysses S. Grant “I guess I do!” snarled the graceless Ike, climbing to the top of the pile of rails. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer The general style of building offers little to admire; the houses being for the most part flat-fronted, monotonous, and graceless, without any species of architectural decoration to relieve their inelegant uniformity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 It is vain to look to Christ or any of his apostles to justify the blasphemous perversions of the word of God, continually paraded before the world by these graceless agitators. Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors Such graceless, spiritless, Christless institutions are dark enough to obscure the beautiful light of the gospel. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity When she arrived with Miss Bey, they were shown into a deliciously cool shady drawing-room, charmingly furnished, and the effect upon Beth, after the graceless bareness of St. Catherine's, was altogether reassuring. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius The "prankish fop" and "graceless fellow"—whose affection had indeed been hitherto no great compliment to a woman, being lightly caught and as lightly lost—was to his own surprise falling very honestly in love. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) Memory was much chagrined to have had such a hard chase only to catch this sorry lot of graceless rogues. The World I Live In Whichever was the greater villain, it was clear that the son was the more obdurate, graceless, and unrepentant of the two. Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy The entertainments, such as suppers, festivals, parties, concerts, regardless of what may be the ultimate object, are engaged in and enjoyed only by the worldly minded and graceless hearted. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity But how I'll rate that ancient fisherman, My graceless father, for deceiving me! The Woman Who Dared Whoever this graceless scamp was, he was not the lieutenant of rangers. Brand Blotters Only a poor fisherman repeated the sad tidings as he trudged, first to Colomberie Farm and then to Orvillière, where Dominic's aunt kept house in state while her graceless nephew was away. Where Deep Seas Moan After all the wrongs he and his graceless son had inflicted on me, he was not willing that I should be injured. Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy Calling it a graceless part Only stabs anew my heart. Laments Procrastination—ah, what a graceless rogue are you! Fibble, D.D. And it’s only what I might look for, ye graceless young reprobate! Killykinick S he ’s up and gone, the graceless Girl! Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature My uncle and his graceless son were engaged in a scheme to rob me. Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy Nonchalant yet watchful, indolent and yet alert, gracefully graceless, he watched me smilingly out of half-closed eyes; and then quietly fired the shot that brought me to. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 You will learn, a little further on, what scurvy tricks Fortune played him, and how at last his poor little brains succumbed to the rough toasting of that graceless jade. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... Could Messrs. Block and Curling assure Captain Marrable that a portion of his inheritance would be saved for him, or had that graceless father of his in very truth seized upon it all? The Vicar of Bullhampton Blue dusk, that brings the dewy hours, Brings thee, of graceless form in sooth. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year ‘I wish I may; but, bless me, Phœbe, she is a perfect little nun, and what is she to do with a graceless dog like me?’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster This saying of the graceless Gibbie means literally, "Devil take the hungriest." The Proverbs of Scotland For all this, Dame Dorothy had no idea of parting with the graceless brute, but continued to pet and pamper him. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls “Dad,” said this graceless son of a graceless sire. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer I date this from London, where I have come, as a good profligate, graceless bachelor, for a day or two; leaving my wife and babbies at the seaside. . . . . The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 The stiff, monotonous countenances of officers and civilians, in their graceless modern costumes, were not very attractive subjects for the pencil. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 In a Nuremberg decree he is called a "reckless and graceless citizen, who has caused much uneasiness to the honorable council and the whole town." A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Ah! graceless wretch, hast spent thine all, And brought thyself to penury? The Book of Brave Old Ballads Yet she sprang up from the white-enameled rocker, tucked in her graceless cotton corset-cover, stared at her image in the mirror, smoothed her neck till the skin reddened. The Job An American Novel Here and there a woman laughed at the handsome, graceless fellows; here and there a burgher managed to pull a grin, spite of the toll exacted. The Reckoning Wordsworth seems to have resented Byron's tardy conversion to "natural piety," regarding it, no doubt, as a fruitless and graceless endeavour without the cross to wear the crown. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 The dame groaned deeply at this reply from her graceless husband. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 It is sad to see the graceless, the "gone-off," and the downright elderly smirk complacently at a few phrases which are only aimed at them in derision. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Yet neither this Providential deliverance nor the terrors that soon followed at Modder River sufficed to lure to either prayer or praise this godless, but surely not graceless, corporal. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back In it he read about forgotten drill and manual exercises, the uncomfortable and graceless manœuvres of the rigid but redoubtable men who fought at Waterloo. War and the Weird The young ones imitated their elders, and these graceless little rascals pulled out his beard and whiskers, and eyebrows and eyelashes. The Call Of The South 1908 The band fled to Oahu with the prize and there led a graceless life until the populace drove them out, and they returned to Hawaii. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate But to-day, my heart felt very hard while preaching to a company of graceless sinners. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada The graceless creatures cry "hands off," and release him at once, while they lick up his spoils and carry it off to their home. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual Let him beware of "compromising" away the vital rights, privileges, and immunities of one portion of the country to appease the graceless, unrelenting, and hostile fanaticism of another portion. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The graceless son acknowledged that he had signed his mother's name to the order upon me for its delivery. Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk But he took a wonderful fancy t' Small Sam Small; an' as for Skipper Sammy—why—Skipper Sammy loved the graceless rogue on sight. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. “I did,” rejoined my father in a rage, “by begetting an undutiful, good-for-nothing, graceless, insolent, ungrateful son.” Japhet in Search of a Father Would anybody now go a step to see the Quadrille were any graceless acrobats left to dance it? Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Ye think perhaps a baptized soul cannot be graceless, but know it for a truth that ye have neither legal righteousness nor evangelical holiness. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning At the sight of such splendor, the poet lies palsy-stricken on this bank of the river, the "graceless, barren, and desert bank" unable to rise and sing. Life Immovable First Part And the amazement of finding her suddenly outside of it, oblivious of it, unconscious of it, left me, for an awful minute, stammering at her like a graceless dolt.... The Long Run 1916 The next sister, Edith, that same graceless youth was in the habit of calling 'The Sentimental.' The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols Lemon had declared him a "graceless young whelp," and nothing that Mr. Sala ever cared to do had tended to change that opinion. The History of "Punch" And how can I be so graceless as to offer to take this from a gentleman who hath none other pleasure left?' The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Upon the graceless river bank that spread Barren and desert, all things drooped in sickness; And I, with palsy stricken, lay in pains! Life Immovable First Part What could he better do, therefore, than borrow this old volcanic crater of Puritanism, and pour out from it his religion and his anger upon a graceless world? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 The lady was at home in bed; she had been personated by a graceless young cub whose stature was about the same as hers. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer An uncle, Howard Hastings, who had a place in the Customs, was willing to give a helping hand to the son of his graceless brother. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Our benevolence is graceless, and there is no charm in our piety, and no rapture in our praise. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year For mumbled metre, leaden pun, For slipshod rhyme, and lazy word, Have pity on this graceless one— Thy mercy on Thy servant, Lord! Songs for a Little House “Hold thy graceless tongue, Jack Milman!” replied a woman’s shrill tones. The King's Daughters Our eyes are wounded by the crying spectacle of gaudy ornament, venal art and senseless and graceless luxury. The Simple Life Nature has done everything; it is graceless man who is in fault that all is not in accordance with it. A Voyage round the World A book for boys He was scarcely less a martyr than Lincoln, or less honored after his death, and his graceless defamers now seemed to think they could atone for their crime by singing his praises. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 For a moment he was pulled up, when to his rhetorical question, "What has Home Rule meant to us?" some graceless Coalitionist promptly answered, "Votes!" but he soon got going again. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07 Yet civilization had a graceless way of looking him up. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Great was the wrath of the elect against all amusements of the kind—but chiefest among outrages was this graceless German. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death The invasion was also capable of comic interpretation and a few graceless wags did allude to it as "a missionary expedition to Darkest Illinois." A Daughter of the Middle Border The Captain had been a mule-skinner once, and for five glorious minutes he did himself proud while the graceless young cowpuncher beamed on him. Oh, You Tex! Ludlow glanced at them, to right and left, as he walked through the long, barn-like building, and took in with other glances the inadequate decorations of the graceless interior. The Coast of Bohemia Yes, incredible as it seems, that graceless dog was gone—gone without a word of farewell. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book And over it in broad lettèrs, These words were written so plain to see: 'Ah! graceless wretch, hast spent thine all, And brought thyself to penurie? English Songs and Ballads That graceless brother of yours who has gone away with his five thousand now will be back in a year's time to borrow. The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) I have asked grace at a graceless face, But there is nane for my men and me. Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series So, brethren, a graceless elder is a curse instead of a blessing. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. Along the graceless grass of town They rake the rows of red and brown, Dead leaves, unlike the rows of hay, Delicate, neither gold nor grey, Raked long ago and far away. Later Poems So if he looked, before him, over the array, it was to say, very grave and graceless: "Am I to understand that you offer to repay me?" The Finer Grain "We went for a nice little stroll," continued the graceless Mr. Green, "and then I s'pose she found it was later than she thought, and she began to make a fuss." A Master Of Craft As the two were rowed down the Thames, they cast many a wistful look back to the prison where they were leaving their beloved friend and Chief at the mercy of a graceless tyrant. Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series They journey'd on through Poland and through Warsaw, Famous for mines of salt and yokes of iron: Through Courland also, which that famous farce saw Which gave her dukes the graceless name of 'Biron.' Don Juan A good deal of this comic writing may be graceless: some of it may, to delicate tastes, be shocking or disgusting. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) I say, people don’t do such deeds as these, merely because a graceless son comes to them, and says, ‘If you please, mother.’ Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend But, graceless as he is, he should not have denied his own mother.” Rattlin the Reefer She might have been so; but I, graceless boy, could not perceive her merits as a grandmother, and showed a great deal of fortitude upon the occasion. The King's Own He told me, in reply, that I was a graceless vagabond; but that I might follow my own devices, if I was so minded, without opposition, though without help from him. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia But, as a general rule, there is little that is serious in these frequently graceless but generally amusing compositions. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) The woman was a graceless figure, a silent household drudge, sullenly sad, and gaunt, and sickly. The Eagle's Heart It would have been a godless and graceless house, indeed, without that, in the opinion of those who had been accustomed to family worship all their lives. Shenac's Work at Home Patrick O’Shaughnessy, ye graceless boy, how dare you take such a liberty with your sister! Pixie O'Shaughnessy The hero, a graceless, amorous, stripling, goes wandering from Spain to the Greek islands and Constantinople, thence to St. Petersburg, and finally to England. Brief History of English and American Literature Parson is tempted to leave his graceless lord to his fate, and betake himself to his French verbs; but a dim surmise as to the consequences prevents him. The Willoughby Captains From that moment Harold was known as "that preacher's boy," the intention being to convey by significant inflections and a meaning smile that he filled the usual description of a minister's graceless son. The Eagle's Heart He appears to me to be a graceless young reprobate, who knows well enough that it’s wicked to steal, and seems rather proud of it than otherwise. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Not that I cared for the gibe; but because I disliked that one there should hear me called by so graceless a name. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess He carried things with a high hand, indeed, treating the partners as he might a graceless lot of undisciplined midshipmen. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Many a graceful act is spoiled by a graceless touch, as a generous deed can be ruined by a grudging manner. Friendship One day when the old man was surveying his work, his graceless son Mâui contemptuously asked him what he was doing there. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge “Well, it’s a good riddance,” said I, who really did not see why Jack should be so afflicted about such a graceless young ragamuffin. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life A hollow, cold, graceless, ungodly thing is a heart without benevolence. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. In comparison with the fact of Spencer's actual living, such critical characterization of it as I have been at all these pains to produce seems a rather unimportant as well as a decidedly graceless thing. Memories and Studies Why, oh, why had she persuaded that graceless dragoon to leave Aldershot and share the peace and tranquillity of home? Belles and Ringers You lee, you lee, ye graceless loon, Sae loud’s I hear ye lee! The Bon Gaultier Ballads “You stay quiet and go to sleep, and I’ll give you some breakfast in the morning,” he said to his graceless little bed-fellow. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Literature must have on it the brand of Fashion, and even education must receive the crown stamp of this graceless monarch, or be rejected by the world and receive no diploma at its hands. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. We who have suffered know the disposition of graceless "skeletons" to hang themselves on "foolish" pitchers, bureau-knobs, rockers, cobble-stones, splinters, nails, and, indeed, any projection a tenth of a line beyond a dead level. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Why, I saw the graceless scamp tugging a girl through the French market this morning, filling her hands with bouquets and all sorts of fol-de-rols. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems "Ay, I was a graceless lad, good for nothing, conceited, intolerable!" Strife and Peace But to think of his being so ill, possibly losing his life, all for a graceless young vagabond who— “Clean ’e boots, do y’ hear, clean ’e boots, sir?” My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Together they went on again, graceless figures in frozen clothing, she pointing the way, he aiding her with his strength, in the final battle toward the summit of the range,—and Crestline. The White Desert No, no, that's not his way at all; And though I do my best, His graceless growls at every fall Are something past a jest.' Chatterbox, 1905. Meantime "Old Peeksniff," as commentators of the day among the graceless subs were won't to call Colonel Stevens, was having his bad quarter of an hour. Warrior Gap A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. Why must Abidan, a common cut-throat, save his graceless life, and this great soul, this stern and mighty being—— Ah me! Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity And the strangest part of it was that the graceless youth appeared to be utterly unconscious that he had done anything wrong. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Now Rhun was the most graceless man in the world, and there was neither wife nor maiden with whom he had held converse, but was evil spoken of. The Mabinogion Vol. 3 She was never still a moment, and, in a word, behaved like the graceless, mercurial baggage she was. With Our Army in Palestine For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Why, you graceless young varlets, I do not seek to free you from schooling. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know A few graceless fellows in the company began to eat and drink before a blessing was asked, and seemingly fared well. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The Englishman was an excellent specimen of his nation, polished and intelligent, without that haughty and graceless reserve which is so painful to a finished man of the world. Sketches I flopped to earth with graceless precipitancy, and wallowed in mud. The Red Horizon She had not meant to rouse his graceless passion, but that was what she had almost succeeded in doing by her coaxing. One Woman's Life The story was one which could only be told by a graceless old representative of the old school of comedy, but it hit its mark. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Son Duryodhan, ever luckless, godless, graceless, witless child, Hast thou Drupad's virtuous daughter thus insulted and reviled, Hast thou courted death and danger, for destruction clouds our path? Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse "Who has been——" "Before you breathe, Purple, you graceless scum, let me tell you that we will stand no reference to the two violets here," said Pennoyer. The Third Violet In England these plants have long been cultivated as a source of profit; whence arose the saying that a graceless fellow is not worth a "kurse" or cress—in German, kers. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure It was Saturday, universal shopping-day in the farmland, and a ramshackle line of rustic vehicles—buggies, democrats, sulkies, lumber wagons—with graceless plough horses slumbering in the thills, stretched in ragged alignment down the curb. The Henchman He is an unfriendly, graceless beast, but he marches to within an hour of his death. The Four Feathers The first comer is Freewill, a careless, graceless youth by his own account; Imagination, who follows, is worse, being one of those hardened, ready-witted, quick-tempered rogues whom providence saves from drowning for another fate. The Growth of English Drama In Hamlet the graceless usurping uncle declares that "such divinity doth hedge a king," that treason cannot endanger his life. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays They journeyed on through Poland and through Warsaw, Famous for mines of salt and yokes of iron: Through Courland also, which that famous farce saw Which gave her dukes the graceless name of "Biron." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 Sent off on a graceless errand for nothing, perhaps. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World III A graceless doom it seems that bids us grieve: Venice and winter, hand in deadly hand, Have slain the lover of her sunbright strand And singer of a stormbright Christmas Eve. Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI If women will wear gowns ugly in color and form, and will sit or stand in graceless positions, we can readily avoid such subjects, and bestow our careful finish upon more worthy models. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The pose is awkward, the drapery graceless, the contour thick, and her face, peering out of the thick veil, is altogether displeasing. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres To do a foolish or a graceless thing would have been to dethrone for her a poet. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories In my throat I swore one thing,—the graceless villain should never collect his reward at both ends of his journey. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country A graceless guerdon we that loved receive For all our love, from that the dearest land Love worshipped ever. Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI And, upon honor, I believe he is the most graceless. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 Why give such prominence to this graceless type? Donatello, by Lord Balcarres He pulled himself together a little, however, and began to use phrases again about his "graceless son," and "the young villain," and "not a penny of his." None Other Gods It is an incontinence of brilliance, graceless and aggressive, a glaring swagger. Certain Personal Matters His affection for his graceless nephew Karl is a touching picture. The Great German Composers Each cart has its own peculiar creak, hoarse and grating, and waggles its own individual waggle, graceless and shaky, on the uneven ground. The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba However, if these graceless people thought to humbug the hard-headed man from the North, he succeeded on one occasion in completely silencing his chief enemy, O'Halloran. Sunrise And there she broke down, and sat down, and, graceless hussy as she was, laughed as if she was mad. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics With a hard pencil no man can write anything but a graceless style—a kind of east wind air it gives—and smile you cannot. Certain Personal Matters And, if Moore had any fault to find with his neighbor in blue, he was, indeed, a graceless grumbler. The Colonel of the Red Huzzars He was pleased to have it, and told her so in a graceless way. In the Roaring Fifties I will not seek nor sue her, For I'm neither fonder nor truer Than when she slighted my lovelorn youth, My giftless, graceless, guinealess truth, And I only lived to rue her. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Then he summoned into his eyes all the wounded feeling, pathos, soft reproach and appeal, of which his graceless young heart was capable, and gazed at her. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Straight ahead he saw the garden, lying graceless and deserted, with the unkemptness of extreme old age. The Voice of the People Her heart burned with indignation against the graceless, thankless churl who could rob the man on whose charity he had been living for two years. Queen Hildegarde How shall I enter on this graceless errand? A Study of Shakespeare Hadst thou but caught away Mother Sub-Prioress, she would have reformed thy home, whipped thy children, and mended thine own vile manners, thou graceless churl! The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century Systems more numerous than dactyls and spondees in Classic verse, patent putters outnumbered only by howlers in Oxford responsions, bear witness to this graceless statement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 As a work of art, it is heavy and graceless, with hard mechanical lines; and the figure of the Virgin at the top is utterly destitute of merit. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood It was guests more graceless than these who had roused his wrath. Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors No, let me die, if his too boisterous will Will have it so, before I will consent To be an actor in his graceless lust. A Study of Shakespeare "I did," rejoined my father in a rage, "by begetting an undutiful, good-for-nothing, graceless, insolent, ungrateful son." Japhet, in Search of a Father "The parson's got an awful tender heart," the Butterfly Man explained and Laurence was graceless enough to grin. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man No iteration of pedagogical maxims can annul the influence of some little mean or graceless act. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 "Still more perfect in here, lazing with Mummy," said graceless Roy. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Last year the canvass to get on the board of guardians of the Sibylline Books—in which that graceless son-in-law of Cicero's, Publius Dolabella, defeated me—cost a deal of money. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. For Limping Tim was an idle, graceless kind of fellow, who fiddled for his livelihood, but what else he did to earn the money he squandered, no one knew. Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales And as if that graceless ballad were the signal for something to happen, upon the hall window-shutter sounded three loud, imperative knocks. A Woman Named Smith Miriam felt it would be graceless not to see her aunt, although she had no particular desire for an interview just then. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers But they had thought of it weeks ahead: while he—graceless and ungrateful—had deemed himself half forgotten. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India "Yes, girl!" said Lentulus, savagely, turning livid with sheer rage, "use all your arts on that graceless would-be conspirator now, or see his face no more!" A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. "Manners would never leave his host in so graceless a style, I know." Heiress of Haddon It seemed a graceless thing to leave the carcasses of these brave creatures uncovered there. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance But, although a graceless pair, they were more dupes than knaves. The Green Eyes of Bâst Yet the graceless pair had made haste to escape, and blessed Lady Despard for remaining with the men. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Even the graceless touch of an intriguing woman's power—even the excitement of something like love toward one who was unworthy of his love—had softened him, so that his conscience could move again. Sevenoaks But they are plainly told they will be deceived who have come to hear a merry graceless play— A noise of targets, or to see a fellow In a long motley coat guarded with yellow. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Moreover, I had begun to feel a very keen curiosity to see the way that had lured Christian on with such graceless obstinacy. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Men knew how to be as wrong-headed and as graceless as women. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Fine times, if two sober, hard-working citizens are to be brought here to be made the sport of a graceless profligate. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader Cheers rent the air from every group; and if a conqueror had returned from the most sacred patriotic service he could not have received a heartier ovation than that bestowed upon the graceless fugitive. Sevenoaks Only this morning I was watching a lamb butt its mother in the ribs, and roll in the grass, and dirty its wool—the graceless young rascal! Tell England A Study in a Generation A graceless tyrant who neither fears God, nor regards man, may view, his subjects as made for him, and think himself entitled to deprive them at his pleasure, of every comfort, and even life. Sermons on Various Important Subjects The theft is proved upon the graceless scamp, and he is sent to the house of correction, while Tony is borne in triumph by the club to his home. All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake A Sequel to "The Boat Club" Not a whisper; the Squire is as close as an underground tomb; but one of the witnesses hinted to me that she had cut off her graceless nephew, Frank, without a shilling. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader Against this axiom, alas, graceless and suicidal seems the unwisdom of the world, in action against all who offer it salvation from its pain; aye, though he be Christ or Commoner. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration He was a tall, weedy youth of sixteen; and the unhealthiness of his growth was shown by the long, graceless neck, the spare chest, and the thin wrists. Tell England A Study in a Generation It is as ugly to look at, the plant is, all spines and thick, graceless, fleshy pads; as ugly as Ashley life looks to you. The Brimming Cup Thou graceless wretch, come out of thy hold.' The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay "I, a Princess of the Empire, humbly offered him, a cobbler's son, my hand, heart, and fortune,—and the graceless man rejected them with scorn." My Friend Prospero And still the ten graceless individualists soared along ahead and gathered in everything in sight. The Road Perhaps, at that terrible moment, she wished her husband had been like other women’s husbands, a true and loyal man, cheering the old flag, and hurling harmless anathemas at the graceless rebels. The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army A Story of the Great Rebellion But a graceless meal; never a blessing asked, nor thanks given. Montcalm and Wolfe Isabel supposed so too, on second thoughts: how could any man sneer at a record like Val's: unless indeed it were with that peculiarly graceless sneer which springs from jealousy? Nightfall The effort to withstand him would be worse than ineffectual, it would be graceless. The Street Called Straight Had he taken quick alarm at Steele's words, and effected a hasty retreat from the scenes of his graceless and nefarious career? Half A Chance Truly, a well-ordered bay-window will often change a gloomy, graceless room into a cheerful and artistic one, but large, simple windows are sometimes rather to be chosen than too much bay. Homes and How to Make Them Three graceless sisters in the bond of unity Are lightness, flightiness, and importunity. A Celtic Psaltery Returning to the house, Le Gallais found the graceless monarch seated at table before a steaming bowl of porridge, while Rose was pouring him some cider. St George's Cross That first youth of his, when he now thought of it, seemed quite black and gloomy, graceless, wan and inactive, as if it had been spent far away from the sunlight. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Before he was many minutes older he was clasping his child to his breast; and was even shaking hands with her graceless husband. Love Romances of the Aristocracy Splendid; airy, untouched by fear; untouched by thought; fearless, faithless, heedless, graceless. If Winter Comes Thus, wrapped in the dignity of misfortune, vanished the last semblance of the graceless and treacherous thraldom of the Spanish Bourbons in the capital of Sicily. The Liberation of Italy Charles Grace, a graceless Cooper was let into the Secret, and consented, and resolved to Act his Part. The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes "Up, graceless one!" she cried; "and carry thy seven devils within doors!" At a Winter's Fire The handsome and graceless Duke of Monmonth, Charles's favourite son, Danby and many another gallant, succeeded one another in her favours, which she dispensed without any care for concealment. Love Romances of the Aristocracy He called himself the basest of wretches, the most graceless of lovers. Nedra They hope that the issue of the book to their subscribers may help to confirm or refute that lady's responsibility for so graceless an attack upon her sex. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple Now fare you well, young folks; and thou, good Master Builder, thank Heaven for a good and dutiful daughter, for they grow not on every hedge in these graceless days. The Sign of the Red Cross The Livelies were set down in a street where the sand was over the instep, before a stiff, graceless brick building, standing close up in one corner of an acre lot. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 But I doubt, I doubt, O Ralph Waldo Emerson, thou hast not been sufficiently ecstatic about her,—thou graceless exception, confirmatory of a rule! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I She and Jane then joined Elizabeth in the latter's room, and the trio immediately held what their graceless relative would have termed "a lodge of sorrow." Kindred of the Dust |
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