| 单词 | ill-formed |
| 例句 | In effect, the political institutions and the very authority of the federal government were too new and ill-formed to cope effectively with the foreign and domestic challenges facing the new nation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The children’s plan was bold, ill-formed, and likely to fail, and all of them knew it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I set my fingers in a V and, leaping up from the kitchen floor, I poked them into Nelly's ill-formed, damp & porcine eyes. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z In opposition, both had been strongly critical of ill-formed plans to boost sports participation through the Olympics and now have a chance to do something about it. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z In that role, "The View" is channeling large swaths of the public's thoughts, intuitions and moods – however vague and ill-formed those thoughts and feelings may be. "The View" is totally wrong about MTG 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z We’ve learned a lot in a quarter century — none of which appears to be present in the editorial board’s thinking or legislators’ ill-formed bills. Drug possession law: ‘Ill-formed bills’ 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z It’s that Chazelle, a director of impressive chops and a writer of often hasty, ill-formed ideas, isn’t strong enough to make those movies breathe as one. Review: ‘Babylon’ douses you with sex, drugs, vomit and elephant diarrhea. You … might like it? 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z But critics pounced, saying Pinsky promotes ill-formed and harmful views, including an enforcement-focused approach to homelessness like that seen at Echo Park Lake. 'Dr. Drew' eyed for homeless commission, angering advocates who wonder: Is this a joke? 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z When Pauli presented their ill-formed theory at a 1958 conference of the American Physical Society, he was met with derision. When quantum physics met psychiatry 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z When these voter ID laws first were ratified, “the understanding of voter fraud was very ill-formed”, says Weiser. Revealed: states' restrictive voter ID laws have cost taxpayers $36m 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But as a portrait of human connection, “First Cow” is situated within the rugged terrain of capitalism, even the rough and ill-formed variety found 200 years ago in the Pacific Northwest. Review: ‘First Cow,’ a western fable of unpasteurized poetry 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Clinc’s product allowed users to have realistic conversations with the bot, offering contextual answers to even the messiest and most ill-formed questions. Inside Clinc, the AI startup facing troubling allegations of sexual harassment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s a rather ill-formed question, and debating it in the absence of any knowledge about the system we’re talking about amounts, at best, to a philosophical argument. Why video games and board games aren’t a good measure of AI intelligence 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z But King also sought to reach past their ill-formed and biased objections to their congregations and to American society in general, challenging its silence and inactivity. MLK speaks powerfully to us in 2019 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z After all, everyone who interacts with, is affected by, or pays taxes to fund the ill-formed and ill-managed federal bureaucracy wins if reform moves forward. Reforming our bureaucracy should be on Congress’ agenda 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z It started with him on the receiving end of high school bullying and led swiftly from watching YouTube videos about Islam, to becoming groomed, and drawn into an ill-formed conspiracy, hatched inside a jihadist chatroom. He was a teenage terrorist. Now he's fighting extremism 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z In the fantasies they committed to paper, the men associated the women they despised with floods of liquid and slime, and with dirt – substances that would threaten to overwhelm the defences of their ill-formed psyches. What do incels, fascists and terrorists have in common? Violent misogyny | Jason Wilson 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Sadly when Trump first decided to run, much was known about his nefarious dealings and his ill-formed and distorted character. Opinion | Trump, Flush With Power 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Although Philips’ headband looks like an ill-formed diaper, its weird design attaches built-in sensors to your forehead in order to detect brain activity. Philips releases a headband that plays white noise to help you sleep 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The Igbos in the east of Nigeria, for instance, initially saw the Europeans as madmen of strange appearance and ill-formed ideologies. Africa has been failed by westernisation. It must cast off its subservience | Chigozie Obioma 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Most drugs work by targeting ill-formed or malfunctioning proteins and trying to excise them from the body. Experimental Drug That Mutes Defective Genes Raises New Hopes 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z I was writing about the modern conservative movement, the one that led to Reagan, not about the brutish relics of a more gothic, ill-formed and supposedly incoherent reactionary era that preceded it. I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Rather like the crazy boy-emperors after the fall of the Roman Republic, he may have problems with impulse control—and an uncontrolled, ill-formed, perpetually fragmented mind. The Gathering Nuclear Storm 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z But policy proposals, however ill-formed and destructive, are not the crux of the danger. To defend our democracy against Trump, the GOP must aim for a brokered convention 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Will he ignore a slightly ill-formed haunch on behalf of an exhibitor friend? Westminster Dog Show Judge Is Alone on Center Stage 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z But, my mother upheld that if my brother and I negated these ill-formed pre-conceived notions by not speaking in Ebonics and studied hard, our lot in life would be easier. Being Black Shouldn't Mean I Have to Be 'Twice as Good' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The FCC is considering the assertion of broad control of the most vibrant technology in world history largely to mollify the ill-formed, breathless fears of political constituencies. Guest: The FCC is stuck in the past when regulating the Internet 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z An editor’s sharp red ink slashed across an ill-formed first draft is another unique form of response. The "Paperless Society" Is Far From Paperless 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The Star Trek computer does that; it anticipates what Kirk wants and answers his questions, even if they’re ill-formed or ambiguous. The Future Is All Robots. But Will We Even Notice? 2013-12-17T18:31:00Z Mackinac resident Todd "Mussels" Callewaert, who gets in shape by tossing six to eight stones every evening for a month, says he practices with local rocks that are ill-formed to improve his throws. In Stone-Skipping Circles, A Rocky Debate Over Equipment 2013-07-02T03:10:18Z People of this world have ill-formed preconceived notions of black people, black women, poor people, poor black people, and especially preconceived negative notions of poor black women. Being Black Shouldn't Mean I Have to Be 'Twice as Good' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Human language is often vague, ambiguous, ill-formed and incomplete. For Siri's New Competitor, SkyPhrase, Academia Isn't Big Enough for AI 2012-11-09T15:10:03Z When this happens, the body can reject an ill-formed embryo, or the embryo itself simply fails to grow. SciAm Beginnings: When a Beginning is Not a Beginning 2012-07-31T14:45:03.343Z His ploughs, harrows, and utensils of husbandry are clumsy, ill-formed, and, where they exist at all, are hopelessly antiquated. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z An ill-formed letter is, however, better let alone. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z They had small, retreating chins; bad teeth; high cheek-bones; small Chinese eyes, at an oblique angle with the nose; coarse hair; wide ill-formed mouths, and a laugh as if the upper lip were immoveable. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Right across the paper ran the words in large ill-formed characters: "Deadman's Gully." The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z His eye glows and sparkles; every lineament, now so ill-formed, grows brilliant and expressive, and you have before you a man of rare power and of strong magnetic influence. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z The inhabitants are ill-formed and weak, but are very ingenious and charming. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 2011-12-11T03:00:10.483Z No human creature is accountable for being too small, or too large; for an ill-formed figure, or for ill-shaped limbs; for irregular features, or a bad complexion. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z The letters were blurred and indistinct, ill-formed, irregular, disjoined--in general, mere hieroglyphics. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z If this were a squat, ill-formed proletarian race obviously predestined to subjection, one might understand. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z She was a tall, bony, ill-formed woman, wearing the rude garb of a farm hand—blue cotton gown, brown sunbonnet, and the rough muddy shoes of a man. The Other Fellow 2011-08-23T02:00:31.420Z His face, and the shape of his head, in fact, much resembled a monkey’s; and the ears protruding from the side of the skull, very large and ill-formed, completed the resemblance. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z They are either thick and stocky at the ankles, with a heap of ill-formed flesh above, or are thin almost to the vanishing point. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z You may not realise just how much illogical garbage and ill-formed speculation parents of these children are exposed to. Research linking autism to internet use is criticised 2011-08-06T21:23:22Z Perhaps it is about equally useless to abandon the ill-formed boy to unguided choice. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z There were seven of them, all of the flimsiest paper, all closely written over on every side, in that thin, pointed, ill-formed hand. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z But just because it is doesn’t mean that someone with poor impulse control and an ill-formed superego should attack it. Geek Ethos Wreaks Havoc 2011-06-20T14:51:53Z After these evil omens every body expected that the little Pierre Poulailler would be ugly and ill-formed. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z False equality is the idol of ill-formed minds and hearts, of disquiet and ambitious egoism. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z There are those who can't get into society or bring Their riches to a social recognition; Or ill-formed souls who lack the real patrician Spirit for life. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z If there were an unpleasant shading of character written there it was in the mouth, which, while not ill-formed, seemed to promise a relentless disposition. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Some are hideously ugly, with thick lips, low retreating foreheads, flat noses, and ill-formed bodies! others are well proportioned; and among them are some that might be accounted good-looking. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Hugh's features were not ill-formed so much as they were out of proportion to each other, becoming thus a mere jumble of organs. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z She was not ugly, from having a positively hideous face, or ill-formed features; but rather from the spirit that gave expression to both. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z After these evil omens, every body expected that the little Pierre Poulailler would be ugly and ill-formed. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z He did not test merit by reference to ill-formed and capricious public opinion, but he wrought according to the highest standards of art that learning and taste could furnish. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z He had a large head, a flat nose, broad shoulders, and a short and ill-formed body; but his eyes were brilliant, his walk stately, and his voice strong and well-toned.—Bibliography: The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The eldest girl was tall and forbidding like her mother, with her features, calm, harsh, and repulsive, her thin nose, her ill-formed mouth, and her pale look. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 It is the only medium to express the vague, ill-formed, new ideas with which we are all labouring. Underground Man The only item of which notice is taken, is whether the characters are well or ill-formed. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology They are small in stature, being generally under five feet, with high cheek-bones, snub-noses, oblique Mongolian eyes, big mouths, large ill-formed heads, faces preternaturally aged, hair like meadow hay, and very scanty beards. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Were you to mark down, upon a graduated scale, the different claims to superiority amongst the four-footed animals, this poor ill-formed creature’s claim would be the last upon the lowest degree. Wanderings in South America At first they were ill-formed and imperfect, but subsequently elaborated and developed. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The ugly cutter's good deeds were forgotten, and she appeared nothing more nor less than an ill-formed cockle-shell. The Recipe for Diamonds His wish for retirement has been half censured as cowardice by Johnson; but there was a tenderness of feeling which had ill-formed Cowley for the cunning of party intriguers, and the company of little villains. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Though an ill-formed race, they are yet rugged, hardy, and self-reliant. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Of all animals, not even the toad and tortoise excepted, this poor ill-formed creature is the most tenacious of life. Wanderings in South America He stared at them, his face flushing and paling by turns, his lips soundlessly shaping the ill-formed characters. The Monk of Hambleton Now that she thought of it, the curious, ill-formed, hesitating character of the writing seemed utterly out of keeping with the man’s apparent nature. The Peace of Roaring River The fall of Granada led to his ultimate success; and at last he set out into the unknown sea with a small fleet, which was so ill-formed as scarcely to reach the Canaries in safety. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose You shall be great; you shall be famous; you, too, shall love and sing; you will sing her so nobly that some kind heart shall forget you are weak and ill-formed. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges She would have been a fine creature had she been educated, but she had not been educated, and consequently her ideas were ill-formed, and her abilities were exercised in a wrong direction. The Macdermots of Ballycloran They are small in stature, being generally under five feet in height, with prominent cheek bones, snub noses, oblique Mongolian eyes, big mouths, large, ill-formed heads, hair like meadow hay, and very scanty beards. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Eli, ill-formed as he was, was much stronger than most men, nature having endowed his sinews with wondrous hardness and powers of endurance. The Birthright “The suspicion was based upon ill-formed conclusions, and was heightened by your own peculiar conduct after the tragedy.” The Seven Secrets He was weak and ill-formed at his birth, so that even his mother despised him. Nero Makers of History Series The one exception was a slightly torn, dirty envelope addressed in an ill-formed handwriting to Mr. Salter Quick, care of Mr. Noah Quick, The Admiral Parker, Haulaway Street, Devonport. Ravensdene Court Look on my beauty, and prefer A spouse more meet than one like her: I'll eat that ill-formed woman there: Thy brother too her fate shall share. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Now, Eli was several years older than I, but he never grew to be more than about four feet high, and was the most ill-formed creature I have ever seen. The Birthright In my own land the voice of flattery had whispered in my ear praises of face and figure, but I felt ill-formed and uncouth beside the perfect symmetry and grace of these lovely beings. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch That he was small for his age he knew, that he was weakly, ill-formed, and awkward. The Justice of the King This he said with an ill-formed, crude idea which sprang to his mind at the moment. Cousin Henry The object bore some resemblance to a string of ill-formed sausages. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico And underneath an ill-formed straggling hand had added a superscription in ink that was now brown and wasted: “Martin born January 2, 1801, at ten minutes past twelve, night.” The Nebuly Coat The envelope contained a sheet of pink paper, on which, in an ill-formed hand, but in tolerably good French, were written a few words. Paul Patoff They prefer its synonym trustworthy, and argue that, in consequence of being ill-formed, reliable can not possibly have the signification in which it is used. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The way was long; the road ill-formed, leading for the most part across a sere and desolate country, with nothing to relieve its barrenness except long stretches of the great spear-headed reeds. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Holding the paper to the light, Anstice examined the ill-formed characters more closely. Afterwards So ill-formed and ill-disciplined were the American forces at this time that he had no other resource than to act as he did. Hurricane Hurry It was certainly hard work holding on at the top of the chaise, as it went pitching and rolling, and tumbling about over the ill-formed path, which scarcely deserved the name of a road. Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea He evidently recognised the cramped, ill-formed hand in which it was addressed. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life There was another palace that contained a number of men and women of monstrous size, and also dwarfs, and crooked and ill-formed persons, each of which had their separate apartments. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure He was a fine big fellow; I have always been heavy and ill-formed. Ten Tales We rode on as fast as the horses could go, without risk of falling over the very rough and ill-formed road. Hurricane Hurry A brow not ill-formed, and a bold pair of eyes, more green than brown, suggested some measure of cultivated intelligence, without which Quita could not have endured his companionship for many hours together. The Great Amulet On his return he brought back with him a large turquoise bowl containing three ill-formed persons, one of whom was Sky Boy. The North American Indian Their heads are generally small and badly-shaped, and their features ill-formed and distorted. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology Such is the Ildefonso marble; and it may be said that its execution is hard and rough—the arms of both figures are carelessly designed; the hands and fingers are especially angular, elongated, and ill-formed. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series They were but ill-formed animals, some heavily built, and others miserable-looking creatures. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government Were his merits purely negative, they would be great; tending as they do to save truth from that obscuration which a multitude of ill-formed opinions necessarily throw upon it. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 And when they get a little older they have no bridges to their noses, their teeth are ill-formed, their vision is imperfect, their intellects dull. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine With this hard work and insufficient food, the children inevitably develop ill-formed, undersized frames, and the commissioners depositions confirm this. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 Having made the discovery of her superiority, she despised the opinions of others, while her own were too ill-formed to be her guide. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies But the most effective barrier standing between you and them is ill-formed manners. The Young Priest's Keepsake The Gauls and other Northern nations, envious of their wealth, and despising the effeminacy of their manners, often invaded them with, numerous, though ill-formed armies. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Filippo, the last of the Visconti tyrants, was extremely ugly,153 and so sensitive about his ill-formed person that he scarcely dared to show himself abroad. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots "The immolation of ill-formed children, and of those born without the permission of the laws, prosecution of strangers and slavery; such were the basis of his boasted republic, and the gospel of his philosophy." Willis the Pilot A favorite of king Alexander the Great was that Choerilus, who to his uncouth and ill-formed verses owed the many pieces he received of Philip's royal coin. The Works of Horace The houses stand in every direction, composed of one large and ill-formed brick, scoped into a tenement, burnt by the sun, and often destroyed by the frost: the males naked; the females accomplished breeders. An History of Birmingham (1783) She is not starved, however, for, as she prepares to finger her guitar, she shows a well-nourished and not ill-formed arm. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 In very halt and ill-formed letters a sign announces "The Royal Shop," a title certainly savoring of affluence. Sweetapple Cove It was so long since the hermit had spoken to any living being that he had almost lost the use of his tongue, and his sentences were slow and ill-formed. The Boy Knight I had understood that they were very mean and ill-shaped images, from which the varnish had come off, and were ill-formed lumps of wood. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time We can correct an ill-formed body by adopting and maintaining a certain carriage. Laugh and Live The second point in which a crammer excels is in fixing the attention, and reducing subjects to the comprehension of ill-formed and undisciplined minds. A Collection of College Words and Customs When he rode it was in the plainest, least comfortable gig in Philadelphia, drawn by an ancient and ill-formed horse, driven always by the master's own hand at a good pace. Famous Americans of Recent Times It was so long since the hermit had spoken to any living being, that he had almost lost the use of his tongue, and his sentences were slow and ill-formed. Winning His Spurs A Tale of the Crusades Most kinds are rapid and luxurious growers, and it is necessary to pay them constant attention in pruning or nipping the extremities of the shoots, or they will soon become ill-formed and straggling. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden With the effects of bodily disease and of ill-formed legs and feet on the wear of the hoof, and the growth of horn, we shall be concerned in a future chapter. Diseases of the Horse's Foot They are powerfully built; the colour of their skin varies from dirty black to clear brown; their features are repulsive and ill-formed. A Woman's Journey Round the World If she thinks herself ill-formed, her reputation will be sullied by scandal. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition They never exceed 51 1/2 inches in height, and have short, ill-formed legs, great bellies, small eyes, flat noses, and pale, unwholesome complexions. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine American seed should be avoided as the blossoms are little to be depended on, and generally yield small, ill-formed flowers, clouded and run in color. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The popular notion of the devil was, that he was a large, ill-formed, hairy sprite, with horns, a long tail, cloven feet, and dragon's wings. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 This can happen when one initial error throws the parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 But our arms, shoulders, and chests are ill-formed and weak. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 As for Africa, sir, I flatter myself, Captain Truck, that you esteem me too highly to believe I am suited to consort or besort with the ill-formed and inedicated men who inhabit that wild country. Homeward Bound or, the Chase His ears were large and pendent, and his body ill-formed. The Dog He came from the slums of London, where they breed a race of men, small, ill-formed, disease-stricken, hard to kill. Roden's Corner Were you to mark down, upon a graduated scale, the different claims to superiority amongst the four-footed animals, this poor ill-formed creature's claim would be the last upon the lowest degree. Wanderings in South America Mr. Mool, discovering a crooked line and some ill-formed letters in the reply, drew his own conclusions. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time The forehead of the young prince is narrow and ill-formed; the Austrian chin is exaggerated one degree more; he looks a picture of fitful impulse. Castilian Days Good men are springs, which second society in its tendency to happiness; the wicked are ill-formed springs, which disturb the order, progress, and harmony of society. Good Sense The weakly, ill-formed bodies, the unhealthy lives lived by the factory-workers in our great manufacturing centres are facts which have an intimate connection with the growth of machinery. Problems of Poverty His portrait by Reynolds gives to features, ill-formed and gross, an expression of intelligence and benignity. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives For if they did, they would not make bold, as everywhere they do to destroy ill-formed and mis-shaped productions. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 Alas! how many shapeless, how many ill-formed, how many broken do we see! Bits about Home Matters It would be unwise to say what that little scrap of ill-formed writing cost the heir to a throne when he heard how she had died,—or how he raged and swore and wept. Temporal Power Miss Nibbs herself was worthy of some notice; perched upon the piano-stool, her flat feet barely reaching the pedals, and her ill-formed bulky figure swaying now on one side, now on another. The Doctor's Daughter Aunt Faith also had several letters, and Bridget handed one to Bessie,—a large, yellow envelope, whose ill-formed address attracted general curiosity. The Old Stone House Almost the same moment that Maria was presented to him, he began some rude jests upon the bad shape of her nose, and called her a tall ill-formed thing. Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World She was thin and ill-formed—one shoulder being slightly higher than the other. Further Chronicles of Avonlea She took a plain sheet of note-paper, and, with a hand far from steady, began, not writing, but printing, certain words, in large, ill-formed capitals. Our Friend the Charlatan He hopped around, looking like a species of ill-formed monkey. Alice of Old Vincennes The first was in Mrs. Beamish's ill-formed hand, and told a sorrowful tale. Australia Felix It was the same hand as that of his unknown contributor's manuscript—ill-formed and boyish. A Sappho of Green Springs On the chest of drawers is a grubby envelope, addressed in an ill-formed hand to: R. Byng, Esq. A Damsel in Distress That is the barbaric Russian notion: 'who are you, ill-formed insolent persons, that give a loose to your tongue in that manner? History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 Her neck, of exquisite roundness, was beginning to take on flesh about the shoulders; but in France the heads of women are principally treasured; so that fine heads will often keep an ill-formed body unobserved. Beatrix And if any one says to us, I must not judge, we never forgive him, because his humility and his obedience so condemn all our ill-formed, prejudiced, rash, and ill-natured judgments of our neighbour. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) The men looked small, young, clumsy, and ill-built; uncomfortable in their shabby European clothes; and about the legs, especially, seemed exceedingly weak and ill-formed. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo Feeble or ill-formed infants were put to death. The Unseen World and Other Essays "Hear the contemptible wisdom of my ill-formed mouth," said N'guk at length. Kai Lung's Golden Hours Dependent from my ill-formed ears are rings of priceless jade that have ever tinged your thoughts, while about your shapely neck is a crystal charm, to which an unclouded background would doubtless give some lustre. Kai Lung's Golden Hours |
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