英语词汇“infelicity”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

In those first weeks, Bolles’s topic varied each day, depending on factors as unpredictable as the Seattle weather or what particular infelicities of technique he had noticed in the previous practice. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Reviewing Mr. Wright’s book, The Boston Globe took it to task for stylistic infelicities while lauding the overall story as “mesmerizing.” William Wright, Biographer of Lillian Hellman, Dies at 85 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

If the reader stops and thinks about it, there are lots of infelicities of craft in this novel. Books of The Times: Lives Scarred by Horrors of Korean War 2010-03-08T22:25:00Z

To be fair, any story set in an industry other than filmmaking is bound to incur infelicities when being handled by people who think filmmaking is the noblest cause. How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

These infelicities are scattered throughout, and the reader must rise above them. Review: ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,’ by Haruki Murakami

The microphones tend to magnify any ensemble infelicities, and the sound is often strident. Music Review: Haydn, Hartmann and Dubois Near, Not on, Washington Sq. 2010-07-14T22:03:00Z

Still, the delicacy and humanity in the writing far outweighs the occasional infelicities. Theater Review: In ‘The Few,’ a Man’s Return Stirs Emotions 2014-05-11T20:04:03Z

A writer from The Nation, for instance, opined, “A tendency to blackness in the flesh-shades is the principal artistic infelicity in this curious and learned work.” Art Review: A Restored ?Gross Clinic? at Philadelphia Museum 2010-07-29T21:51:00Z

The characters, with their insistence on self-determination, feel too modern, and there are a few infelicities, like the idea that “The Communist Manifesto,” first translated into English toward the end of 1850, would circulate onboard. Review: ‘Belfast Girls’ Set Sail, but This Isn’t a Pleasure Cruise 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

Taddeo’s use of the close third person camouflages the source of these infelicities even as she seeks to expose the source of the women’s problems. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

This memoir has its sentimentalities and infelicities and narrative eddies, but few that distract you from its flowing course. Books of The Times: William Styron, in a Daughter?s Words 2011-04-19T18:14:34Z

There are other small mistakes and infelicities that collectively undermine his arguments. Trying to make sense of the world of ubiquitous surveillance 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Mr Cliff does well, despite some musical infelicities, to describe the big game of culture wars and Khrushchev’s capricious adventurism. Piano man 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

To seriously tackle his infelicities and solecisms would've placed someone in the unenviable position of a barber shaving a dog: where do you stop? Cities Are Good for You by Leo Hollis – review 2013-04-17T10:17:21Z

One was the number of people – including me – who had read advance copies of and failed to notice errors, whether straightforward typographical slips or stylistic infelicities. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z

My wife proofread the whole book, double-checking facts and references, and I went through it as well to correct grammatical errors, and stylistic inconsistencies or infelicities. JM Coetzee's official biography to hit shelves this summer 2013-03-21T16:05:07Z

Audiences outside London may not spot such infelicities, but most people old enough to remember the Princess will recognize the film as recent history apparently retold by space aliens. The Princess of Wails: Diana is a Royal Mess 2013-09-27T01:22:14Z

The translation, by Marina Harss, never lacks for clarity, which leaves the blame for these infelicities on the author. Review | Oriana Fallaci: the journalist, the agitator, the legend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

The reproof in their eyes, and the camaraderie implicit in their silence, provide moral and sentimental satisfactions that outweigh the infelicities of plot. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The novel’s narrator Laszlo Ratesic, is a member of the state’s Speculative Service, the law-enforcement body charged with ferreting out lies and liars and with sorting “accidental infelicities” from “purposeful misrepresentations.” Review | Imagine a country that prioritizes truth-telling above all else. Is it an improvement? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Everything about me is out of proportion — including my peanut-sized head — so I face the choice of billowing, dowdy garments or tighter clothes that sometimes cruelly expose my physical infelicities. The politics of my cleavage 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

Then there’s the error-prone syntax — infelicities in editing and writing that add up quickly. Review: The world that made and unmade the Notorious B.I.G. 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

For a more complete and very funny deconstruction of its infelicity, read Jonathan Last’s riff in The Bulwark. Opinion | Donald Trump Is the Best Ever President in the History of the Cosmos 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

And I doubt they spent any time correcting whatever infelicities of my pen they found among my scribbled pages. Confessions of an art critic: I can't believe the things I write in my notebooks 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

And while his verbal errors and infelicities are largely accidental, they’re hardly incidental. Opinion | ‘Human Scum,’ ‘Lynching’ and Trump’s Tortured English 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

This type of verbal infelicity underscores the limitations of automatic, computerized word and spelling-check mechanisms, whereby a word or words can slip through undetected, regardless of the context of usage, however inapposite. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: India’s socialist past, R.I.P. Bryce and a bad malaprop 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Barring the odd stylistic infelicity, he handles his material well. The scientific debates of the Vienna circle 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

On the faithful and skillful discharge of it, the public happiness or infelicity, under this and every other constitution, must, in a very great measure, depend. We the ‘politically correct’ people 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

This led both to some pretty fascinating dinner party conversations and more than a few party mishaps and infelicities. The roaring (drunk) 20s: literature's biggest party animals 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

"But I published them — typos, grammatical infelicities, naiveté, and all — for people who might enjoy them, and that still holds." 10,000 zines and counting: a library's quest to save the history of fandom 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

This lawsuit is not an attempt to enforce the terms of the law; it’s an attempt to use what is at most a semantic infelicity to kill the law altogether. A Cynical Challenge to Obamacare 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Complaints about idiots in one’s own movement or such infelicities as the theft of beer by a fellow demonstrator suggest the whole thing is almost over. The science of civil war: What makes heroic strife 2012-04-19T15:09:44Z

He probably waded across from the Vineyard, when he wanted a little distraction from domestic infelicities. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z

The psychological transformations, the domestic infelicities, the racial animosities—these will find suitable expression in word and action. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z

This flimsy partition induced Dr. Bentley, when congratulated on becoming Master of Trinity, to reply, with characteristic infelicity, "By the help of my God, I have leapt over a wall." Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z

Both she and the man whose hand she accepted acted along the lines of human conduct, and both reaped the bitter harvest of conjugal infelicity. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z

This union was neither long nor happy, but the blame for its infelicity is generally attributed to the lady, whose abnormal character was reflected and accentuated in her unhappy son. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z

But there has long been broad agreement among liturgical scholars that that translation of the Mass had some inaccuracies and infelicities, and work on new, more poetic translation began in the 1980s. For Catholics, the Word Was a Bit Different, Amen 2011-11-27T21:41:00Z

But the change must be from good to evil, and from the beautiful to the base, from felicity to infelicity, and from that which is most excellent to that which is most worthless. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z

“You see how it is?” he said, and gazed appealingly into the dark calm eyes that were watching him in wondering earnestness, while their owner listened compassionately to this tale of married infelicity. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z

He recalled their struggles, their ambitions, their infrequent victories, their frequent defeats, their occasional rise into social eminence, and the domestic infelicities that poisoned their success. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z

Keats died young; and ‘yet his infelicity had years too many.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z

It is only by the infelicity of the subjects which constitute the greater portion of this mighty volume, that its author has missed the immortality which his genius had else secured. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z

The minor dramatic pieces are of inferior worth, and in some of them, as for example, The Promise of May and The Falcon, Tennyson showed a certain infelicity in his choice of subjects. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z

And these are not isolated instances: similar infelicities occur on every page. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z

Thousands of professional and business men are prevented from attaining the success they might reach by some infelicity of manner or speech which could be remedied by a little painstaking effort. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z

It was not for nothing that during all her life she had been accustomed to infelicity. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z

Marriage, with all its chances, its infelicities, its sacrifices, is seldom so infelicitous, so uncertain, so full of sacrifice, as the single state. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z

For we weary of his patter, Growing every moment flatter, On such subjects as connubial infelicity, And we find ourselves protesting Against everlasting jesting On the tragedies of conjugal duplicity. Familiar Faces 2011-01-26T03:00:30.173Z

You surely conclude too hastily from the infelicity of marriage against its institution: will not the misery of life prove equally that life cannot be the gift of heaven? Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z

Others, who did him injustice, were led astray by the infelicity of the times. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z

Aditya Bhattacharjea†† of the Delhi School of Economics criticises the authors for a number of infelicities, such as lumping together amendments big and small. Economics focus: The Himalayas of hiring 2010-08-05T10:56:00Z

It commissioned forensic tests on the edited footage which suggested that there was substantial manipulation, with over-dubbing, chronological changes and contextual infelicities. News of the World releases John Higgins video tapes to investigators 2010-07-28T14:40:00Z

Were this course universally followed it would remove much mental anxiety, possible perplexity, and even marital infelicity. What a Young Husband Ought to Know

We have matrimonial infelicities circumstantially described, as likewise the efforts of an impoverished family of nobles to keep up appearances in their tumble-down old castle. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim

But infelicities like this are universal and constant in China, where punctuality is “a lost art.” Village Life in China A Study in Sociology

You ought to have for Harry such a love as masters Time, and the infelicities of Time. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance

“All our felicity or infelicity is founded on the nature of the object to which we are joined by love.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli"

What you say," I replied, "illustrates that ordinary marriage, with all its limitations and, infelicities, is absolutely necessary for the well-being of society. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar

Characteristic infelicity on the part of the Government to have neglected this opportunity of recognising a reformed character.

There can hardly have been a better example of the possible infelicities of "adaptation." The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5.

Her mother had complained a good deal, and she always said, "Your father," as if the child was in some way answerable for the infelicities. Helen Grant's Schooldays

Because there are infelicities of married life, is it so certain that "single blessedness" is the best estate? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865

She should not be harassed by uncertainty of affection, infelicities of temper, indifference or infidelity. The "Genius"

In domestic infelicity it is our own people we would hide it from longest. The House of Fulfilment

It made her very adaptable and tided them both over a sharp season of infelicity. The Return of the Prodigal

Domestic infelicity seems to have been the heritage of every one connected with the Bulwer family even in the remotest manner. Home Life of Great Authors

Their essays are curious, as the beginnings of that great critical literature, which in England, in spite of much infelicity, has only been second to the poetry which it judged. Spenser

But, in the other case, traffic and communication are the direct objects, while war, if hereafter wars should arise, will be the crime or the infelicity of those who engage in it. Old Roads and New Roads

George M. Whiteside, in "Dream of the Ideal," gives indications of real genius; at the same time displaying a little of the technical infelicity which has marked his earlier verse. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922

It is the infelicity of statesmen that one difficulty is no sooner overcome than another arises to take its place. The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion

And thou art happy; only unto me Is trembling left, and infelicity: The trembling of the man who loves on earth, But unto thee is hope and present mirth. The Earthly Paradise A Poem

But the infelicity of his times bore hardly upon him, and Spenser admits, what is known otherwise, that he left a terrible name behind him. Spenser

In face of these facts, it might naturally be thought that Wesleyans would say as little as possible about the domestic infelicities of Freethinkers. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)

But while the career of the farmer is assuredly not one of uninterrupted bliss, it were folly to assert that Nature's superlative loveliness is not more than enough to compensate for its various infelicities. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922

It is a graver matter to speak of infelicities of diction in a book so justly famous as the Prayer Book for its pure and wholesome English. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer

He had been going to ask her if she meant for the invalid; but he checked the infelicity of this and took the enquiry as referring to social life. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II

Had the whole history of your marital infelicities all over the shop. The Million-Dollar Suitcase

A little vagueness of thought, a slight infelicity in the choice of words would be like a cloud upon the mountain, obscuring the scene with a damp and chilling mist. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions

I think not so; her infelicity Seemed to have years too many. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867

In consequence of this unfortunate rivalry and its bloody results, Forrest became morbid, and his domestic infelicities that followed served to still further embitter his life. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century

Among French novelists she should rather be noted for the extremely small proportion of her numerous romances that have domestic infelicity for a theme. Famous Women: George Sand

So far as the mere laborer has the pride, the knowledge, or the aspirations of a freeman, he is unfitted for his situation, and must doubly feel its infelicity. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject

Then we come down to the iron age in which we have the supposed infelicity to live. India, Its Life and Thought

He has his inward joys, his affectionate delights, which no outward infelicity can touch. Birds in the Bush

She laughed a trifle enviously; her own infelicities were the talk of the town. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905

As a doctor I knew the causes of domestic infelicity in a good many homes. The Seven Secrets

We forgot, or postponed, the blue, and gave the day to study of this case of domestic infelicity. Little Brothers of the Air

Slopes was, of course, the word he meant to use; and the incident may serve as a good illustration of the curious infelicities of English with which his conversation teemed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? Pearls of Thought

The infelicities and vexations which so often attend a journey seem to call out all the latent selfishness of one's nature; and the commonest observances of politeness are, we are sorry to say, sometimes neglected. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies

Nevertheless, on the contrary, she was always apologetic where Mary was concerned, and had always sought to conceal her shortcomings and domestic infelicity. The Seven Secrets

Quarreling caused by matrimonial differences is the most frequent cause of infelicity, and most of it is caused by an innate irate temper of either husband or wife. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources

It is more difficult to support an accumulation of minute infelicities, than any single calamity of the most terrific magnitude. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World

It is as ugly a building as one could meet on a week's journey, and yet by an infelicity all class pictures are taken on its steps. Chimney-Pot Papers

The ego element in human nature is responsible for a very considerable portion of the domestic infelicity that mars the home life of a large proportion of the people. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

They can’t tell their symptoms without going into all the details of family history and domestic infelicity,” he snapped. The Seven Secrets

It is true, sir, that his Majesty hath sometimes answered that his Council knew me better than he did; meaning some two or three of them; and it was indeed my infelicity. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography

Canning with his wonted brilliance, Castlereagh with the usual laboured infelicity, sought to strengthen the defence; but it had almost collapsed when, about 4 a.m. of 9th April, Wilberforce arose. William Pitt and the Great War

Aunt Philippa never made any further reference to the reason Father had sent me to her, but she allowed no day to pass without holding up to me some horrible example of matrimonial infelicity. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922

This form of domestic infelicity may be rightly regarded as a product of "incompatibility of temperament." The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

Of these the Coogans, who live in Center and whose connubial infelicities are proverbial, are an example. Tutors' Lane

It is not discernible merely in collective insinuations against men whose ascendency in the royal council had been his 'infelicity.' Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography

They have figured in connection with many of its social romances and domestic infelicities, as well as with its scandals and its crimes—secret and revealed. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.

Everything has happened that could wreck our married happiness, but we are now armor-clad against infelicity. Old Valentines A Love Story

It is unwise to lay too much stress on the infelicities of the moment. The Life Radiant

Ah! dear Richard, it is so friendly and charming of you to take my infelicities thus to heart! The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance

Does then Vice need Fortune to bring about infelicity? Plutarch's Morals

“Domestic infelicity,” answered La Certe, with a sorrowful shake of the head. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains

Professor Henry Reed has a delicate appreciation in poetry, but his remarks are nearly always marred by verbal infelicities incompatible with a knowledge of literary art. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851

Thus alone can the contemplation of art bring us back to primal infelicity, and restore in our souls the perfect vacuity of infants and cows. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914

For by this revelation of the infelicity of her state, his whole relation to, and duty towards her changed and took on a greater freedom. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance

Vice has universally an ill effect on everybody, being in itself a sufficient producer of infelicity, needing no instruments nor ministers. Plutarch's Morals

If Solomon had been as prayerful at the beginning of his life as he was at the close, how much domestic infelicity he would have avoided! The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony

No less than seven men had engaged to kill the king; all of whom, through some strange infelicity, did not find an opportunity even to make the attempt. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5

His fellow-guest, at this, drew nearer again, irritated, you would have been sure, by the unconscious infelicity of the pair—worked up to something quite openly wilful and passionate. The Outcry

In order to this end, men in all ages have voluntarily submitted themselves to prolonged infelicity. The Young Trawler

The progression of man through the circle of evil is marked by three infelicities: Necessity, oblivion, and deaths. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

In the vast majority of cases of domestic infelicity coming to exposure in the courts, the trouble began by the accidental opening of a letter which implied correspondence which was never suspected. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony

It reads more like an excessively uninspired précis of a larger work than like anything else—a précis in which all the literary merit has, with unvarying infelicity, been omitted. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

Though I was tolerably easy in my external circumstances, yet my mind hankering after England made my life still: unhappy; and that infelicity daily increased as I saw the less probability of attaining my desire. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.)

A large part of the marital infelicity about which we hear so much comes from the husband's attempt to cramp his wife's ambition and to suppress her normal expression. Pushing to the Front

With fatal infelicity the Revisers exhibit 'For indeed the hand of the Lord was with him.' The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

Remember that the worst domestic misfortunes and most scandalous divorce cases started from little infelicities. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony

But, a little more is wanted besides five-o’clock tea; and, until it is granted, we will continue to have matrimonial infelicity, marriages “of convenience,” and, no marriages at all! She and I, Volume 1

The heart now grew sometimes to be trembling and irresolute, and the soul to have its visions of infelicity. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3

Mrs. President Adams had described her infelicities very graphically. A Little Girl in Old Salem

What more plain than that we have before us one other instance of the injudicious zeal of the orthodox? one more sample of the infelicity of modern criticism? The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

It is a rosary of marital infelicities that Daudet has strung for us in this volume, and in every one of them the husband is expiating his blunder. The Nabob, Volume 1

The atmosphere of refinement brought into the rude life of the castle by the Troubadours is more than offset by the domestic infelicity they caused. Woman's Work in Music

Nevertheless, such infelicities might be very unpleasant for their employer, especially if he has more heart than brains. Palmistry for All

It is one of the great infelicities of Irish history that this result was obtained at the very period of the Reformation. Historical and Political Essays

"Well, just where is this land of romantic tragedy and domestic infelicity?" questioned Davy. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story

It was a fine moral, and demonstrated the usual infelicity that attends unequal connection. Ixion In Heaven

It was at this time that the differences in character began to cause domestic infelicity in the Wagnerian household. Woman's Work in Music

Dark hints of domestic infelicity broke unintentionally from his ungoverned lips. The Young Duke

Thus, to all but a very small proportion of humanity, the married state would be one of infelicity and degeneration. Plain Facts for Old and Young

The painting grew into a likeness, but it was a painful one, full of hidden sadness, bitterness, and infelicity. Cobwebs and Cables

The memory, too, of these two kings, from like causes, has been attended, in some degree, with the same infelicity which pursued them during the whole course of their lives. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell

For five years they had lived completely estranged beneath the single roof that sheltered both, yet trying desperately to conceal their conjugal infelicity from the world. The Substitute Prisoner

Things were said to be marvellously well done because Lord Coombe himself held reins which diplomatically guided and restrained amateurishness and emotional infelicities. Robin

After the second, he lamented his conjugal infelicity. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

But the perpetual infelicity of false and foolish reasoning, as well as proceeding and acting upon it, seems to be fatal to this country. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish

Confound it! there seems no end to conjugal infelicity around us these days. The Danger Mark

A singular infelicity," he declared, "had befallen young Master Bligh, once the hopeful heir of his parents and of the lands of Botathen. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural

When the sages, the critics, and the people who love to say smart things, paint the infelicities of marriage, they as often paint simply the general troubles of life, which are common to all people. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future

We join in the jest at marriage; we joke over marital infelicities. Religious Education in the Family

Scandal says that Haydn, who had a very affectionate and sympathetic nature, found ample consolation for marital infelicity in the charms and society of the lovely Boselli, a great singer. The Great German Composers

Though occupied with these rather numerous domestic infelicities, Henry was not idle in other directions. The Leading Facts of English History

For life is marred by little infelicities and ruined by little errors. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service

It is to me wonderful that with all this he preserves his health, for to public distress is added the utmost degree of domestic infelicity, and no prospect of a change for the better. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life

You will, however, frequently meet with such amateur infelicities. Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

The Preface is perhaps the least dead part of the book; but its line of argument shares, and perhaps even exaggerates, the controversial infelicity of this unfortunate series. Matthew Arnold

We will not undertake to analyze all the reasons for these startling discrepancies; but one obvious reason is infelicity in the choice of a subject. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864

Through the stress of the home infelicity, her beauty waned; but her bearing and breeding kept her paramount in her set. Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment

Some of the conspicuous blemishes of several great compositions may be attributed to the domestic infelicities of their authors. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions

In literary polish it is not beyond criticism, though occasional infelicities of expression and instances of carelessness do not outweigh the general clearness and force of style. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884

Few men can rise superior to the crushing effects of domestic infelicity: man's hopes, man's happiness, all centred in her whom he has chosen as the companion of his life. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest

Disobedience of children, premature and unnatural childish love-affairs, domestic infelicity, the privileges and advantages of bachelorhood are paraded Sunday after Sunday before the susceptible minds of millions of children. The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals

Marital infelicities and broken homes are not universal, fortunately, but some of the human weaknesses which lead to them are very nearly so. Broken Homes A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment

The former are nomads, hunters, or fishers, made bold by a constant struggle with the infelicities of their environment. The Awakening of China

But these infelicities are no obstacle to the Hindu mind, and the consistency of the plot is entirely secondary to the doctrine of caste and of philosophy which the author makes Krishna proclaim. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891

Here he seems to have repented of his ways, for he left an honorable record as a devoted pastor, and the historian is glad to forget the infelicities of his career on the North River. The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems

"You are the first woman I ever wanted to send flowers to," he said presently; and added with abject infelicity: "It's strange, isn't it?" Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage

In these infelicities Bigot figures as peacemaker, though with no perceptible success. Montcalm and Wolfe

It was of the man that the uppermost feeling in his mind was one of disgust at his late infelicity of speech, and at the blindness which had prompted it. Audrey

I have rarely read a piece of his which did not contain at least one glaring infelicity. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892

The watering-places are responsible for more of the domestic infelicities of this country than all the other things combined. New Tabernacle Sermons

Such infelicities are difficult to account for in the work of a musician so exceedingly sensitive in matters of poetic fitness as he. Edward MacDowell

For all the eyes we get beyond our own, but minister to infelicity. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II

And the same deep skill is shown in the case of the good old Lord Gonzalo, whose sense of his own infelicities seems lost in his care to minister comfort and diversion to others. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England

Song's breath is wasted when it does but fan The smouldering infelicity of man. The Poems of William Watson

It seemed to be assumed that the guests were only interested in personal gossip relating to the marital infelicities of the neighboring countryside, who lost most at cards, and the theater. The "Goldfish"

And in his infelicity and in his resentment against Rachel he savoured it all not without pleasure. The Price of Love

General Butler, for a verbal infelicity in an order of imperative necessity and wholesome effect, has been befouled by language which no careful historian would apply to Tiberius or Louis XV. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863

And so I think the Poet's boldness in metaphor sometimes makes him overbold, or at least betrays him into infelicities of boldness. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England

Coin travels back and forth, every one examining it, and the conversation goes to another topic, say the influence of the automobile on domestic infelicity, or some other such asininely intellectual club topic—you know? Murder in Any Degree

He had seen naught but a dogged and eternal infelicity. The Roll-Call

There are infelicities of the same kind in the first verse of the poem called At an Inn:— When we, as strangers, sought Their catering care, Veiled smiles bespoke their thought Of what we were. Old and New Masters

It may be hypercriticism on my part, but bouquet strikes me as sadly infelicitous; and a large part of its infelicity is due to its having kept its French spelling and its French pronunciation. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems

For the date drew near of his yearly removal from the Riviera to Cotteret-les-Bains, in the Ardennes, where, during the summer season, he exploited the physical infelicities and mental credulities of his more wealthy fellow-creatures. Deadham Hard

Domestic infelicity drives us to our art; happiness makes us neglect it. Murder in Any Degree

But it grieves me much to say that all hath resulted in infelicity, misfortune, and an unhappy end. Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof

Yet before the law there was very little if any difference between a performance of "Hamlet" by the great Betterton, and an exhibition of the marital infelicities of Punch and Judy. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield

Her somewhat equivocal past was in King Alexander's eyes quite eclipsed by her great beauty and her wit, which had not been impaired by conjugal infelicity. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey

But it does not always require verbal infelicity to produce a "Thing one would rather have expressed differently." Collections and Recollections

Not without makeshifts, indeed, many of which partook of this infelicity, was the celestial order of marriage to be obeyed and the world brought back to its primitive purity and innocence. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West

There is a strange cluster of domestic infelicities centring about Liszt. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2

But it will involve us in great difficulties and infelicity to be now deprived of them. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4

To me there is no hint in the story of the infelicity Mr. Frohman hinted at. Bambi

Marital infelicity followed, A. having an affair with Mrs. Abraham's maid. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be

To see or eat roast in a dream, is an omen of domestic infelicity and secret treachery. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition

But the peculiar infelicity of the Byzantine princes exposed them to domestic perils, without affording any lively promise of foreign conquest. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

But it will involve us in great difficulties and infelicity to be now deprived of them. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4

Domestic infelicity soon compelled them to keep the wives at different houses, and they alternated weeks in visiting each wife. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

Went on the puppet stage for a few hundred years, displaying her domestic infelicity. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be

No American, living or dead, can surpass the verbal infelicity of Knatchbull-Hugessen, for example—if the gentleman will forgive me for conscripting him. Ponkapog Papers

The old philosopher feared that family pride might cause domestic infelicity. The Chinese Boy and Girl

He was deeply engrossed in an article on the causes leading to matrimonial infelicities when his 'bus passed the Academy box-office. The Fifth String

He made the patient's acquaintance from her application to him in regard to a malcondition of her sexual apparatus, causing much domestic infelicity. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

The words were hardly spoken when she realized their infelicity. House of Mirth

Before Michael Angelo's statues and the pictures of the early Tuscans, he quite forgot his own infelicities, and picked up the thread of his old aesthetic loquacity. Roderick Hudson

Others, again, advise wives never to discuss knotty points with their husbands; for if they should chance to differ from each other, that fact might give rise to much domestic infelicity. The Woman's Bible

Here we trace the origin of the infelicity of this religious household. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I

With pictures of human infelicity in men possessed of them all, ver. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

The infelicity and entire inconclusiveness of the definition he has vouchsafed us can hardly have any other effect. Life: Its True Genesis

They have no impressive idea of the pain of remorse, and scarcely the faintest conception of an infelicity inflicted by the conscious loss of the Divine favor. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance

Many errata have been corrected, and a very considerable number of what seemed to be infelicities or slight inaccuracies in the English have been removed. Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Preface and Introductions

PELAGIUS:—Let no foreiner insult on the infelicity of our land in bearing this monster. Literary Remains, Volume 2

It seemed to me I could recall many omissions and infelicities in what I had said to both magnates, while in dealing with Vedia I seemed to myself to have been tongue-tied and fragmentary. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire

Neither would have endeavoured to fix an infelicity of which each doubtless had been but too capable. The Awkward Age

Mrs. Haywood's writings are full of the most lively scenes of marital infelicity due to causes ranging from theological disputes to flagrant licentiousness. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood

There is so much infelicity," said the poet, "in the world, that scarce any man has leisure, from his own distresses, to estimate the comparative happiness of others. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes

He is a slave to envy, and loseth flesh with fretting--not so much at his own infelicity as at others' good; neither hath he leisure to joy in his own blessings whilst another prospereth. Character Writings of the 17th Century

Certain it is, that his matrimonial infelicities may be traced to this source. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives

Sometimes this profound infelicity of hers changed its hues for an instant, and lo! it was bliss that she was bathed in. Hilda Lessways

In his impressive silence he has set one of the noblest examples of a man afflicted with domestic infelicities. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements

You, surely, conclude too hastily from the infelicity of marriage against its institution: will not the misery of life prove equally, that life cannot be the gift of heaven? Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes

Peradventure the Epiphany, by some periodical infelicity, would, once in six years, merge in a Sabbath. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

Thus speaketh one Ferdinand in the words of the play— "She died full young"—one Bossola answers him— "I think not so—her infelicity Seemed to have years too many"—Ah, luckless lady! Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works

Her essential infelicity was as profound and as enigmatic as ever. Hilda Lessways

"On my life," replied Hereward, "I cannot see the infelicity of drinking when we are dying of thirst." Waverley Novels — Volume 12

Domestic infelicities had rendered him callous to Aunt Caroline's claims, but Miss Lady, his "little Missis"? A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

I believe there have only been two or three outbursts of domestic infelicity since. A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians

Probably the loss of the works of Varro may be accounted for by their lack of popular interest, or by their infelicities of style, which rendered them little attractive to readers. The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic

The letter shook her, arousing as it did the sharp sense of her indebtedness to Sarah Gailey, who alone had succoured her in her long period of despairing infelicity. Hilda Lessways

In London, with its myriad little eddies of crime and matrimonial infelicity, there is a neat sum to be made out of detective work. Once Aboard the Lugger

A dozen years ago some nonsense verses were running through the papers,—verses pointing out with humorous precision the very infelicities of conscious control to which I am now directing attention. The Nature of Goodness

I am fond of Judith and sorry for her domestic infelicities, though why she should maintain that alcoholized wretch in her kitchen passes my comprehension. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel

Here, of course, she heard a great deal about the Eichorns, the elite of the Cabbage Patch, whose domestic infelicities furnished the chief interest in Mrs. Schultz's life. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

With singular infelicity this spot was chosen as the site of the new colony. Pioneers of France in the New World

Down the steps of the building came a young man who seemed to epitomize its degradation, squalor and infelicity—a narrow-chested, pale, unsavory young man, puffing at a cigarette. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million

But the time was not one in which to cavil about minor infelicities. Merton of the Movies

Amidst conjugal infelicity, it is well to hope, pray, and wait patiently on divine wisdom to point out the path. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures

Why thus my soul should be consigned To infelicity, Why always I must feel as blind To sights my brethren see, Why joys they've found I cannot find, Abides a mystery. Wessex Poems and Other Verses

She had insisted upon his stopping at Kirby and holding no communication with the Jeffcourts until he heard from her, and had strongly pointed out the hopeless infelicity of his plan. Colonel Starbottle's Client

No impropriety or infelicity had been permitted to mar the smooth texture of its surface. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times

It was part of the infelicity of circumstance that the voluble Dona Maria—electing him as the distinguished stranger above the resident Fletcher—monopolized him and attached him to her side. A First Family of Tasajara

Vaguely aware of some infelicity in his speech, he awkwardly turned the subject: "I don't think I shall stay here long, myself." Sally Dows

He read much, and in his way—Jeff's way—tried to improve his mind; his recent commercial experience had shown him various infelicities in his speech and accent. Jeff Briggs's Love Story

But the stimulation of the keen sea air triumphed over the infelicities of the situation and surroundings, and the little party were presently enjoying their well-selected luncheon with the wholesome appetite of travel and change. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories

Senator Boompointer, unconscious of any infelicity in his interruption, was calmly waiting. Clarence

Soon after I moved into Happy Valley I was struck with the remarkable infelicity of its title. Urban Sketches

Nobody knew Mr. Dimmidge, nor his domestic infelicities, and the editor and foreman, being equally in the dark, took refuge in a mysterious and impressive evasion of all inquiry. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation

Nor were these charming infelicities confined to his social and domestic service. Stories in Light and Shadow

The infelicity of questioning Clarence regarding Susy suddenly flashed upon the forgetful Phoebe, and she colored. Susy, a story of the Plains

All the instinctive delicacy of Miss Keene's womanhood resented the rude infelicity of this speech and the flippant manner of its utterance. The Crusade of the Excelsior

"Jest look at Eliza, now," pursued Matthew, wrapped in the thought of his own domestic infelicities. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields

In an instant Christie saw the infelicity of her position, and its dangers. Devil's Ford

I think not so; her infelicity Seem'd to have years too many. The Duchess of Malfi

For an instant Paul was superstitiously struck with the fatal infelicity of Yerba's selection of a foreign name, that now seemed only to invite that comment and criticism which she should have avoided. A Ward of the Golden Gate

She died full young"—one Bossola answers him— "I think not so—her infelicity "Seemed to have years too many"—Ah luckless lady! The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5

Lawyer Gooch's practice leaned largely to the settlement of marital infelicities. Whirligigs

He never wrote the Spanish language accurately, and the letter, as printed from his own manuscript, is even curious in its infelicities. The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time

I wish to demonstrate further the infelicity of these arms. The Prince

单词	infelicity
例句	infelicity In those first weeks, Bolles’s topic varied each day, depending on factors as unpredictable as the Seattle weather or what particular infelicities of technique he had noticed in the previous practice. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Reviewing Mr. Wright’s book, The Boston Globe took it to task for stylistic infelicities while lauding the overall story as “mesmerizing.” William Wright, Biographer of Lillian Hellman, Dies at 85 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z If the reader stops and thinks about it, there are lots of infelicities of craft in this novel. Books of The Times: Lives Scarred by Horrors of Korean War 2010-03-08T22:25:00Z To be fair, any story set in an industry other than filmmaking is bound to incur infelicities when being handled by people who think filmmaking is the noblest cause. How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z These infelicities are scattered throughout, and the reader must rise above them. Review: ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,’ by Haruki Murakami The microphones tend to magnify any ensemble infelicities, and the sound is often strident. Music Review: Haydn, Hartmann and Dubois Near, Not on, Washington Sq. 2010-07-14T22:03:00Z Still, the delicacy and humanity in the writing far outweighs the occasional infelicities. Theater Review: In ‘The Few,’ a Man’s Return Stirs Emotions 2014-05-11T20:04:03Z A writer from The Nation, for instance, opined, “A tendency to blackness in the flesh-shades is the principal artistic infelicity in this curious and learned work.” Art Review: A Restored ?Gross Clinic? at Philadelphia Museum 2010-07-29T21:51:00Z The characters, with their insistence on self-determination, feel too modern, and there are a few infelicities, like the idea that “The Communist Manifesto,” first translated into English toward the end of 1850, would circulate onboard. Review: ‘Belfast Girls’ Set Sail, but This Isn’t a Pleasure Cruise 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Taddeo’s use of the close third person camouflages the source of these infelicities even as she seeks to expose the source of the women’s problems. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z This memoir has its sentimentalities and infelicities and narrative eddies, but few that distract you from its flowing course. Books of The Times: William Styron, in a Daughter?s Words 2011-04-19T18:14:34Z There are other small mistakes and infelicities that collectively undermine his arguments. Trying to make sense of the world of ubiquitous surveillance 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr Cliff does well, despite some musical infelicities, to describe the big game of culture wars and Khrushchev’s capricious adventurism. Piano man 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z To seriously tackle his infelicities and solecisms would've placed someone in the unenviable position of a barber shaving a dog: where do you stop? Cities Are Good for You by Leo Hollis – review 2013-04-17T10:17:21Z One was the number of people – including me – who had read advance copies of and failed to notice errors, whether straightforward typographical slips or stylistic infelicities. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z My wife proofread the whole book, double-checking facts and references, and I went through it as well to correct grammatical errors, and stylistic inconsistencies or infelicities. JM Coetzee's official biography to hit shelves this summer 2013-03-21T16:05:07Z Audiences outside London may not spot such infelicities, but most people old enough to remember the Princess will recognize the film as recent history apparently retold by space aliens. The Princess of Wails: Diana is a Royal Mess 2013-09-27T01:22:14Z The translation, by Marina Harss, never lacks for clarity, which leaves the blame for these infelicities on the author. Review \| Oriana Fallaci: the journalist, the agitator, the legend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The reproof in their eyes, and the camaraderie implicit in their silence, provide moral and sentimental satisfactions that outweigh the infelicities of plot. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The novel’s narrator Laszlo Ratesic, is a member of the state’s Speculative Service, the law-enforcement body charged with ferreting out lies and liars and with sorting “accidental infelicities” from “purposeful misrepresentations.” Review \| Imagine a country that prioritizes truth-telling above all else. Is it an improvement? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Everything about me is out of proportion — including my peanut-sized head — so I face the choice of billowing, dowdy garments or tighter clothes that sometimes cruelly expose my physical infelicities. The politics of my cleavage 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Then there’s the error-prone syntax — infelicities in editing and writing that add up quickly. Review: The world that made and unmade the Notorious B.I.G. 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z For a more complete and very funny deconstruction of its infelicity, read Jonathan Last’s riff in The Bulwark. Opinion \| Donald Trump Is the Best Ever President in the History of the Cosmos 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z And I doubt they spent any time correcting whatever infelicities of my pen they found among my scribbled pages. Confessions of an art critic: I can't believe the things I write in my notebooks 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z And while his verbal errors and infelicities are largely accidental, they’re hardly incidental. Opinion \| ‘Human Scum,’ ‘Lynching’ and Trump’s Tortured English 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z This type of verbal infelicity underscores the limitations of automatic, computerized word and spelling-check mechanisms, whereby a word or words can slip through undetected, regardless of the context of usage, however inapposite. Opinion \| Readers critique The Post: India’s socialist past, R.I.P. Bryce and a bad malaprop 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Barring the odd stylistic infelicity, he handles his material well. The scientific debates of the Vienna circle 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z On the faithful and skillful discharge of it, the public happiness or infelicity, under this and every other constitution, must, in a very great measure, depend. We the ‘politically correct’ people 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z This led both to some pretty fascinating dinner party conversations and more than a few party mishaps and infelicities. The roaring (drunk) 20s: literature's biggest party animals 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z "But I published them — typos, grammatical infelicities, naiveté, and all — for people who might enjoy them, and that still holds." 10,000 zines and counting: a library's quest to save the history of fandom 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z This lawsuit is not an attempt to enforce the terms of the law; it’s an attempt to use what is at most a semantic infelicity to kill the law altogether. A Cynical Challenge to Obamacare 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Complaints about idiots in one’s own movement or such infelicities as the theft of beer by a fellow demonstrator suggest the whole thing is almost over. The science of civil war: What makes heroic strife 2012-04-19T15:09:44Z He probably waded across from the Vineyard, when he wanted a little distraction from domestic infelicities. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The psychological transformations, the domestic infelicities, the racial animosities—these will find suitable expression in word and action. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z This flimsy partition induced Dr. Bentley, when congratulated on becoming Master of Trinity, to reply, with characteristic infelicity, "By the help of my God, I have leapt over a wall." Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Both she and the man whose hand she accepted acted along the lines of human conduct, and both reaped the bitter harvest of conjugal infelicity. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z This union was neither long nor happy, but the blame for its infelicity is generally attributed to the lady, whose abnormal character was reflected and accentuated in her unhappy son. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z But there has long been broad agreement among liturgical scholars that that translation of the Mass had some inaccuracies and infelicities, and work on new, more poetic translation began in the 1980s. For Catholics, the Word Was a Bit Different, Amen 2011-11-27T21:41:00Z But the change must be from good to evil, and from the beautiful to the base, from felicity to infelicity, and from that which is most excellent to that which is most worthless. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z “You see how it is?” he said, and gazed appealingly into the dark calm eyes that were watching him in wondering earnestness, while their owner listened compassionately to this tale of married infelicity. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z He recalled their struggles, their ambitions, their infrequent victories, their frequent defeats, their occasional rise into social eminence, and the domestic infelicities that poisoned their success. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Keats died young; and ‘yet his infelicity had years too many.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It is only by the infelicity of the subjects which constitute the greater portion of this mighty volume, that its author has missed the immortality which his genius had else secured. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The minor dramatic pieces are of inferior worth, and in some of them, as for example, The Promise of May and The Falcon, Tennyson showed a certain infelicity in his choice of subjects. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z And these are not isolated instances: similar infelicities occur on every page. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Thousands of professional and business men are prevented from attaining the success they might reach by some infelicity of manner or speech which could be remedied by a little painstaking effort. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z It was not for nothing that during all her life she had been accustomed to infelicity. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Marriage, with all its chances, its infelicities, its sacrifices, is seldom so infelicitous, so uncertain, so full of sacrifice, as the single state. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z For we weary of his patter, Growing every moment flatter, On such subjects as connubial infelicity, And we find ourselves protesting Against everlasting jesting On the tragedies of conjugal duplicity. Familiar Faces 2011-01-26T03:00:30.173Z You surely conclude too hastily from the infelicity of marriage against its institution: will not the misery of life prove equally that life cannot be the gift of heaven? Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Others, who did him injustice, were led astray by the infelicity of the times. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Aditya Bhattacharjea†† of the Delhi School of Economics criticises the authors for a number of infelicities, such as lumping together amendments big and small. Economics focus: The Himalayas of hiring 2010-08-05T10:56:00Z It commissioned forensic tests on the edited footage which suggested that there was substantial manipulation, with over-dubbing, chronological changes and contextual infelicities. News of the World releases John Higgins video tapes to investigators 2010-07-28T14:40:00Z Were this course universally followed it would remove much mental anxiety, possible perplexity, and even marital infelicity. What a Young Husband Ought to Know We have matrimonial infelicities circumstantially described, as likewise the efforts of an impoverished family of nobles to keep up appearances in their tumble-down old castle. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim But infelicities like this are universal and constant in China, where punctuality is “a lost art.” Village Life in China A Study in Sociology You ought to have for Harry such a love as masters Time, and the infelicities of Time. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance “All our felicity or infelicity is founded on the nature of the object to which we are joined by love.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" What you say," I replied, "illustrates that ordinary marriage, with all its limitations and, infelicities, is absolutely necessary for the well-being of society. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Characteristic infelicity on the part of the Government to have neglected this opportunity of recognising a reformed character. There can hardly have been a better example of the possible infelicities of "adaptation." The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Her mother had complained a good deal, and she always said, "Your father," as if the child was in some way answerable for the infelicities. Helen Grant's Schooldays Because there are infelicities of married life, is it so certain that "single blessedness" is the best estate? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 She should not be harassed by uncertainty of affection, infelicities of temper, indifference or infidelity. The "Genius" In domestic infelicity it is our own people we would hide it from longest. The House of Fulfilment It made her very adaptable and tided them both over a sharp season of infelicity. The Return of the Prodigal Domestic infelicity seems to have been the heritage of every one connected with the Bulwer family even in the remotest manner. Home Life of Great Authors Their essays are curious, as the beginnings of that great critical literature, which in England, in spite of much infelicity, has only been second to the poetry which it judged. Spenser But, in the other case, traffic and communication are the direct objects, while war, if hereafter wars should arise, will be the crime or the infelicity of those who engage in it. Old Roads and New Roads George M. Whiteside, in "Dream of the Ideal," gives indications of real genius; at the same time displaying a little of the technical infelicity which has marked his earlier verse. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It is the infelicity of statesmen that one difficulty is no sooner overcome than another arises to take its place. The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion And thou art happy; only unto me Is trembling left, and infelicity: The trembling of the man who loves on earth, But unto thee is hope and present mirth. The Earthly Paradise A Poem But the infelicity of his times bore hardly upon him, and Spenser admits, what is known otherwise, that he left a terrible name behind him. Spenser In face of these facts, it might naturally be thought that Wesleyans would say as little as possible about the domestic infelicities of Freethinkers. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) But while the career of the farmer is assuredly not one of uninterrupted bliss, it were folly to assert that Nature's superlative loveliness is not more than enough to compensate for its various infelicities. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It is a graver matter to speak of infelicities of diction in a book so justly famous as the Prayer Book for its pure and wholesome English. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer He had been going to ask her if she meant for the invalid; but he checked the infelicity of this and took the enquiry as referring to social life. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II Had the whole history of your marital infelicities all over the shop. The Million-Dollar Suitcase A little vagueness of thought, a slight infelicity in the choice of words would be like a cloud upon the mountain, obscuring the scene with a damp and chilling mist. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions I think not so; her infelicity Seemed to have years too many. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 In consequence of this unfortunate rivalry and its bloody results, Forrest became morbid, and his domestic infelicities that followed served to still further embitter his life. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Among French novelists she should rather be noted for the extremely small proportion of her numerous romances that have domestic infelicity for a theme. Famous Women: George Sand So far as the mere laborer has the pride, the knowledge, or the aspirations of a freeman, he is unfitted for his situation, and must doubly feel its infelicity. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Then we come down to the iron age in which we have the supposed infelicity to live. India, Its Life and Thought He has his inward joys, his affectionate delights, which no outward infelicity can touch. Birds in the Bush She laughed a trifle enviously; her own infelicities were the talk of the town. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 As a doctor I knew the causes of domestic infelicity in a good many homes. The Seven Secrets We forgot, or postponed, the blue, and gave the day to study of this case of domestic infelicity. Little Brothers of the Air Slopes was, of course, the word he meant to use; and the incident may serve as a good illustration of the curious infelicities of English with which his conversation teemed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? Pearls of Thought The infelicities and vexations which so often attend a journey seem to call out all the latent selfishness of one's nature; and the commonest observances of politeness are, we are sorry to say, sometimes neglected. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies Nevertheless, on the contrary, she was always apologetic where Mary was concerned, and had always sought to conceal her shortcomings and domestic infelicity. The Seven Secrets Quarreling caused by matrimonial differences is the most frequent cause of infelicity, and most of it is caused by an innate irate temper of either husband or wife. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources It is more difficult to support an accumulation of minute infelicities, than any single calamity of the most terrific magnitude. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World It is as ugly a building as one could meet on a week's journey, and yet by an infelicity all class pictures are taken on its steps. Chimney-Pot Papers The ego element in human nature is responsible for a very considerable portion of the domestic infelicity that mars the home life of a large proportion of the people. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies They can’t tell their symptoms without going into all the details of family history and domestic infelicity,” he snapped. The Seven Secrets It is true, sir, that his Majesty hath sometimes answered that his Council knew me better than he did; meaning some two or three of them; and it was indeed my infelicity. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Canning with his wonted brilliance, Castlereagh with the usual laboured infelicity, sought to strengthen the defence; but it had almost collapsed when, about 4 a.m. of 9th April, Wilberforce arose. William Pitt and the Great War Aunt Philippa never made any further reference to the reason Father had sent me to her, but she allowed no day to pass without holding up to me some horrible example of matrimonial infelicity. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 This form of domestic infelicity may be rightly regarded as a product of "incompatibility of temperament." The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Of these the Coogans, who live in Center and whose connubial infelicities are proverbial, are an example. Tutors' Lane It is not discernible merely in collective insinuations against men whose ascendency in the royal council had been his 'infelicity.' Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography They have figured in connection with many of its social romances and domestic infelicities, as well as with its scandals and its crimes—secret and revealed. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Everything has happened that could wreck our married happiness, but we are now armor-clad against infelicity. Old Valentines A Love Story It is unwise to lay too much stress on the infelicities of the moment. The Life Radiant Ah! dear Richard, it is so friendly and charming of you to take my infelicities thus to heart! The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Does then Vice need Fortune to bring about infelicity? Plutarch's Morals “Domestic infelicity,” answered La Certe, with a sorrowful shake of the head. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains Professor Henry Reed has a delicate appreciation in poetry, but his remarks are nearly always marred by verbal infelicities incompatible with a knowledge of literary art. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Thus alone can the contemplation of art bring us back to primal infelicity, and restore in our souls the perfect vacuity of infants and cows. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914 For by this revelation of the infelicity of her state, his whole relation to, and duty towards her changed and took on a greater freedom. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Vice has universally an ill effect on everybody, being in itself a sufficient producer of infelicity, needing no instruments nor ministers. Plutarch's Morals If Solomon had been as prayerful at the beginning of his life as he was at the close, how much domestic infelicity he would have avoided! The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony No less than seven men had engaged to kill the king; all of whom, through some strange infelicity, did not find an opportunity even to make the attempt. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 His fellow-guest, at this, drew nearer again, irritated, you would have been sure, by the unconscious infelicity of the pair—worked up to something quite openly wilful and passionate. The Outcry In order to this end, men in all ages have voluntarily submitted themselves to prolonged infelicity. The Young Trawler The progression of man through the circle of evil is marked by three infelicities: Necessity, oblivion, and deaths. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 In the vast majority of cases of domestic infelicity coming to exposure in the courts, the trouble began by the accidental opening of a letter which implied correspondence which was never suspected. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony It reads more like an excessively uninspired précis of a larger work than like anything else—a précis in which all the literary merit has, with unvarying infelicity, been omitted. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Though I was tolerably easy in my external circumstances, yet my mind hankering after England made my life still: unhappy; and that infelicity daily increased as I saw the less probability of attaining my desire. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) A large part of the marital infelicity about which we hear so much comes from the husband's attempt to cramp his wife's ambition and to suppress her normal expression. Pushing to the Front With fatal infelicity the Revisers exhibit 'For indeed the hand of the Lord was with him.' The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Remember that the worst domestic misfortunes and most scandalous divorce cases started from little infelicities. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony But, a little more is wanted besides five-o’clock tea; and, until it is granted, we will continue to have matrimonial infelicity, marriages “of convenience,” and, no marriages at all! She and I, Volume 1 The heart now grew sometimes to be trembling and irresolute, and the soul to have its visions of infelicity. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 Mrs. President Adams had described her infelicities very graphically. A Little Girl in Old Salem What more plain than that we have before us one other instance of the injudicious zeal of the orthodox? one more sample of the infelicity of modern criticism? The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels It is a rosary of marital infelicities that Daudet has strung for us in this volume, and in every one of them the husband is expiating his blunder. The Nabob, Volume 1 The atmosphere of refinement brought into the rude life of the castle by the Troubadours is more than offset by the domestic infelicity they caused. Woman's Work in Music Nevertheless, such infelicities might be very unpleasant for their employer, especially if he has more heart than brains. Palmistry for All It is one of the great infelicities of Irish history that this result was obtained at the very period of the Reformation. Historical and Political Essays "Well, just where is this land of romantic tragedy and domestic infelicity?" questioned Davy. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story It was a fine moral, and demonstrated the usual infelicity that attends unequal connection. Ixion In Heaven It was at this time that the differences in character began to cause domestic infelicity in the Wagnerian household. Woman's Work in Music Dark hints of domestic infelicity broke unintentionally from his ungoverned lips. The Young Duke Thus, to all but a very small proportion of humanity, the married state would be one of infelicity and degeneration. Plain Facts for Old and Young The painting grew into a likeness, but it was a painful one, full of hidden sadness, bitterness, and infelicity. Cobwebs and Cables The memory, too, of these two kings, from like causes, has been attended, in some degree, with the same infelicity which pursued them during the whole course of their lives. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell For five years they had lived completely estranged beneath the single roof that sheltered both, yet trying desperately to conceal their conjugal infelicity from the world. The Substitute Prisoner Things were said to be marvellously well done because Lord Coombe himself held reins which diplomatically guided and restrained amateurishness and emotional infelicities. Robin After the second, he lamented his conjugal infelicity. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter But the perpetual infelicity of false and foolish reasoning, as well as proceeding and acting upon it, seems to be fatal to this country. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Confound it! there seems no end to conjugal infelicity around us these days. The Danger Mark A singular infelicity," he declared, "had befallen young Master Bligh, once the hopeful heir of his parents and of the lands of Botathen. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural When the sages, the critics, and the people who love to say smart things, paint the infelicities of marriage, they as often paint simply the general troubles of life, which are common to all people. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future We join in the jest at marriage; we joke over marital infelicities. Religious Education in the Family Scandal says that Haydn, who had a very affectionate and sympathetic nature, found ample consolation for marital infelicity in the charms and society of the lovely Boselli, a great singer. The Great German Composers Though occupied with these rather numerous domestic infelicities, Henry was not idle in other directions. The Leading Facts of English History For life is marred by little infelicities and ruined by little errors. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service It is to me wonderful that with all this he preserves his health, for to public distress is added the utmost degree of domestic infelicity, and no prospect of a change for the better. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life You will, however, frequently meet with such amateur infelicities. Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances The Preface is perhaps the least dead part of the book; but its line of argument shares, and perhaps even exaggerates, the controversial infelicity of this unfortunate series. Matthew Arnold We will not undertake to analyze all the reasons for these startling discrepancies; but one obvious reason is infelicity in the choice of a subject. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Through the stress of the home infelicity, her beauty waned; but her bearing and breeding kept her paramount in her set. Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment Some of the conspicuous blemishes of several great compositions may be attributed to the domestic infelicities of their authors. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions In literary polish it is not beyond criticism, though occasional infelicities of expression and instances of carelessness do not outweigh the general clearness and force of style. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Few men can rise superior to the crushing effects of domestic infelicity: man's hopes, man's happiness, all centred in her whom he has chosen as the companion of his life. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Disobedience of children, premature and unnatural childish love-affairs, domestic infelicity, the privileges and advantages of bachelorhood are paraded Sunday after Sunday before the susceptible minds of millions of children. The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals Marital infelicities and broken homes are not universal, fortunately, but some of the human weaknesses which lead to them are very nearly so. Broken Homes A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment The former are nomads, hunters, or fishers, made bold by a constant struggle with the infelicities of their environment. The Awakening of China But these infelicities are no obstacle to the Hindu mind, and the consistency of the plot is entirely secondary to the doctrine of caste and of philosophy which the author makes Krishna proclaim. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Here he seems to have repented of his ways, for he left an honorable record as a devoted pastor, and the historian is glad to forget the infelicities of his career on the North River. The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems "You are the first woman I ever wanted to send flowers to," he said presently; and added with abject infelicity: "It's strange, isn't it?" Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage In these infelicities Bigot figures as peacemaker, though with no perceptible success. Montcalm and Wolfe It was of the man that the uppermost feeling in his mind was one of disgust at his late infelicity of speech, and at the blindness which had prompted it. Audrey I have rarely read a piece of his which did not contain at least one glaring infelicity. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 The watering-places are responsible for more of the domestic infelicities of this country than all the other things combined. New Tabernacle Sermons Such infelicities are difficult to account for in the work of a musician so exceedingly sensitive in matters of poetic fitness as he. Edward MacDowell For all the eyes we get beyond our own, but minister to infelicity. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II And the same deep skill is shown in the case of the good old Lord Gonzalo, whose sense of his own infelicities seems lost in his care to minister comfort and diversion to others. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Song's breath is wasted when it does but fan The smouldering infelicity of man. The Poems of William Watson It seemed to be assumed that the guests were only interested in personal gossip relating to the marital infelicities of the neighboring countryside, who lost most at cards, and the theater. The "Goldfish" And in his infelicity and in his resentment against Rachel he savoured it all not without pleasure. The Price of Love General Butler, for a verbal infelicity in an order of imperative necessity and wholesome effect, has been befouled by language which no careful historian would apply to Tiberius or Louis XV. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 And so I think the Poet's boldness in metaphor sometimes makes him overbold, or at least betrays him into infelicities of boldness. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Coin travels back and forth, every one examining it, and the conversation goes to another topic, say the influence of the automobile on domestic infelicity, or some other such asininely intellectual club topic—you know? Murder in Any Degree He had seen naught but a dogged and eternal infelicity. The Roll-Call There are infelicities of the same kind in the first verse of the poem called At an Inn:— When we, as strangers, sought Their catering care, Veiled smiles bespoke their thought Of what we were. Old and New Masters It may be hypercriticism on my part, but bouquet strikes me as sadly infelicitous; and a large part of its infelicity is due to its having kept its French spelling and its French pronunciation. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems For the date drew near of his yearly removal from the Riviera to Cotteret-les-Bains, in the Ardennes, where, during the summer season, he exploited the physical infelicities and mental credulities of his more wealthy fellow-creatures. Deadham Hard Domestic infelicity drives us to our art; happiness makes us neglect it. Murder in Any Degree But it grieves me much to say that all hath resulted in infelicity, misfortune, and an unhappy end. Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof Yet before the law there was very little if any difference between a performance of "Hamlet" by the great Betterton, and an exhibition of the marital infelicities of Punch and Judy. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Her somewhat equivocal past was in King Alexander's eyes quite eclipsed by her great beauty and her wit, which had not been impaired by conjugal infelicity. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey But it does not always require verbal infelicity to produce a "Thing one would rather have expressed differently." Collections and Recollections Not without makeshifts, indeed, many of which partook of this infelicity, was the celestial order of marriage to be obeyed and the world brought back to its primitive purity and innocence. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West There is a strange cluster of domestic infelicities centring about Liszt. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 But it will involve us in great difficulties and infelicity to be now deprived of them. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 To me there is no hint in the story of the infelicity Mr. Frohman hinted at. Bambi Marital infelicity followed, A. having an affair with Mrs. Abraham's maid. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be To see or eat roast in a dream, is an omen of domestic infelicity and secret treachery. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition But the peculiar infelicity of the Byzantine princes exposed them to domestic perils, without affording any lively promise of foreign conquest. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 But it will involve us in great difficulties and infelicity to be now deprived of them. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 Domestic infelicity soon compelled them to keep the wives at different houses, and they alternated weeks in visiting each wife. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Went on the puppet stage for a few hundred years, displaying her domestic infelicity. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be No American, living or dead, can surpass the verbal infelicity of Knatchbull-Hugessen, for example—if the gentleman will forgive me for conscripting him. Ponkapog Papers The old philosopher feared that family pride might cause domestic infelicity. The Chinese Boy and Girl He was deeply engrossed in an article on the causes leading to matrimonial infelicities when his 'bus passed the Academy box-office. The Fifth String He made the patient's acquaintance from her application to him in regard to a malcondition of her sexual apparatus, causing much domestic infelicity. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The words were hardly spoken when she realized their infelicity. House of Mirth Before Michael Angelo's statues and the pictures of the early Tuscans, he quite forgot his own infelicities, and picked up the thread of his old aesthetic loquacity. Roderick Hudson Others, again, advise wives never to discuss knotty points with their husbands; for if they should chance to differ from each other, that fact might give rise to much domestic infelicity. The Woman's Bible Here we trace the origin of the infelicity of this religious household. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I With pictures of human infelicity in men possessed of them all, ver. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 The infelicity and entire inconclusiveness of the definition he has vouchsafed us can hardly have any other effect. Life: Its True Genesis They have no impressive idea of the pain of remorse, and scarcely the faintest conception of an infelicity inflicted by the conscious loss of the Divine favor. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance Many errata have been corrected, and a very considerable number of what seemed to be infelicities or slight inaccuracies in the English have been removed. Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Preface and Introductions PELAGIUS:—Let no foreiner insult on the infelicity of our land in bearing this monster. Literary Remains, Volume 2 It seemed to me I could recall many omissions and infelicities in what I had said to both magnates, while in dealing with Vedia I seemed to myself to have been tongue-tied and fragmentary. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Neither would have endeavoured to fix an infelicity of which each doubtless had been but too capable. The Awkward Age Mrs. Haywood's writings are full of the most lively scenes of marital infelicity due to causes ranging from theological disputes to flagrant licentiousness. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood There is so much infelicity," said the poet, "in the world, that scarce any man has leisure, from his own distresses, to estimate the comparative happiness of others. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes He is a slave to envy, and loseth flesh with fretting--not so much at his own infelicity as at others' good; neither hath he leisure to joy in his own blessings whilst another prospereth. Character Writings of the 17th Century Certain it is, that his matrimonial infelicities may be traced to this source. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives Sometimes this profound infelicity of hers changed its hues for an instant, and lo! it was bliss that she was bathed in. Hilda Lessways In his impressive silence he has set one of the noblest examples of a man afflicted with domestic infelicities. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements You, surely, conclude too hastily from the infelicity of marriage against its institution: will not the misery of life prove equally, that life cannot be the gift of heaven? Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes Peradventure the Epiphany, by some periodical infelicity, would, once in six years, merge in a Sabbath. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Thus speaketh one Ferdinand in the words of the play— "She died full young"—one Bossola answers him— "I think not so—her infelicity Seemed to have years too many"—Ah, luckless lady! Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works Her essential infelicity was as profound and as enigmatic as ever. Hilda Lessways "On my life," replied Hereward, "I cannot see the infelicity of drinking when we are dying of thirst." Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Domestic infelicities had rendered him callous to Aunt Caroline's claims, but Miss Lady, his "little Missis"? A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill I believe there have only been two or three outbursts of domestic infelicity since. A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians Probably the loss of the works of Varro may be accounted for by their lack of popular interest, or by their infelicities of style, which rendered them little attractive to readers. The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic The letter shook her, arousing as it did the sharp sense of her indebtedness to Sarah Gailey, who alone had succoured her in her long period of despairing infelicity. Hilda Lessways In London, with its myriad little eddies of crime and matrimonial infelicity, there is a neat sum to be made out of detective work. Once Aboard the Lugger A dozen years ago some nonsense verses were running through the papers,—verses pointing out with humorous precision the very infelicities of conscious control to which I am now directing attention. The Nature of Goodness I am fond of Judith and sorry for her domestic infelicities, though why she should maintain that alcoholized wretch in her kitchen passes my comprehension. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Here, of course, she heard a great deal about the Eichorns, the elite of the Cabbage Patch, whose domestic infelicities furnished the chief interest in Mrs. Schultz's life. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch With singular infelicity this spot was chosen as the site of the new colony. Pioneers of France in the New World Down the steps of the building came a young man who seemed to epitomize its degradation, squalor and infelicity—a narrow-chested, pale, unsavory young man, puffing at a cigarette. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million But the time was not one in which to cavil about minor infelicities. Merton of the Movies Amidst conjugal infelicity, it is well to hope, pray, and wait patiently on divine wisdom to point out the path. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Why thus my soul should be consigned To infelicity, Why always I must feel as blind To sights my brethren see, Why joys they've found I cannot find, Abides a mystery. Wessex Poems and Other Verses She had insisted upon his stopping at Kirby and holding no communication with the Jeffcourts until he heard from her, and had strongly pointed out the hopeless infelicity of his plan. Colonel Starbottle's Client No impropriety or infelicity had been permitted to mar the smooth texture of its surface. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times It was part of the infelicity of circumstance that the voluble Dona Maria—electing him as the distinguished stranger above the resident Fletcher—monopolized him and attached him to her side. A First Family of Tasajara Vaguely aware of some infelicity in his speech, he awkwardly turned the subject: "I don't think I shall stay here long, myself." Sally Dows He read much, and in his way—Jeff's way—tried to improve his mind; his recent commercial experience had shown him various infelicities in his speech and accent. Jeff Briggs's Love Story But the stimulation of the keen sea air triumphed over the infelicities of the situation and surroundings, and the little party were presently enjoying their well-selected luncheon with the wholesome appetite of travel and change. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Senator Boompointer, unconscious of any infelicity in his interruption, was calmly waiting. Clarence Soon after I moved into Happy Valley I was struck with the remarkable infelicity of its title. Urban Sketches Nobody knew Mr. Dimmidge, nor his domestic infelicities, and the editor and foreman, being equally in the dark, took refuge in a mysterious and impressive evasion of all inquiry. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation Nor were these charming infelicities confined to his social and domestic service. Stories in Light and Shadow The infelicity of questioning Clarence regarding Susy suddenly flashed upon the forgetful Phoebe, and she colored. Susy, a story of the Plains All the instinctive delicacy of Miss Keene's womanhood resented the rude infelicity of this speech and the flippant manner of its utterance. The Crusade of the Excelsior "Jest look at Eliza, now," pursued Matthew, wrapped in the thought of his own domestic infelicities. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields In an instant Christie saw the infelicity of her position, and its dangers. Devil's Ford I think not so; her infelicity Seem'd to have years too many. The Duchess of Malfi For an instant Paul was superstitiously struck with the fatal infelicity of Yerba's selection of a foreign name, that now seemed only to invite that comment and criticism which she should have avoided. A Ward of the Golden Gate She died full young"—one Bossola answers him— "I think not so—her infelicity "Seemed to have years too many"—Ah luckless lady! The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Lawyer Gooch's practice leaned largely to the settlement of marital infelicities. Whirligigs He never wrote the Spanish language accurately, and the letter, as printed from his own manuscript, is even curious in its infelicities. The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time I wish to demonstrate further the infelicity of these arms. The Prince
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