The inside of the general building is severely plain.

"Now, Mr. Stoddard, I want to talk to you mighty plain.

An Austrian advance of another few miles would bring the enemy over the edge of the mountains, with the plain beneath in full view.

" Leichhardt's track, as far as the Elsey, seems tolerably plain and entirely in accordance with the character of the man and his intentions.

But it is well known that the walrus, though not in the least a malignant animal, if allowed to display its remarkably plain person and blundering performances at ease in any element it chooses, becomes desperately savage and musters alarming auxiliaries when attacked or hurt.

"I went to see your Jarvis to-night, as I promised to do, but he made it exceedingly plain to me that he desired neither my visit nor my acquaintance.

So anxious the story-teller seems that the truth should be clearly comprehended that when he has told us a matter of fact or a motive, in a line or two farther down he repeats it with his favorite figure of speech, "I say" so and so, though he had made it abundantly plain before.

The "yashmak" is getting very thin in these countries, and one can form a very fair estimate of the lady's features (singularly plain ones) as the sedan swings by.

The first of these things is for the British monarchy to sever itself definitely from the German dynastic system, with which it is so fatally entangled by marriage and descent, and to make its intention of becoming henceforth more and more British in blood as well as spirit, unmistakably plain.

When all were seated, Mark King found himself with Miss Gloria at his right and an unusually plain and unattractive girl named Georgia on his left.

It may safely be said that a man who can command hounds in the Braydon and Swindon district will find the "shires" comparatively plain sailing.

Sir Stephen was waiting in the hall; and Stafford, with a little thrill of pride, noticed that he looked still more distinguished in his evening-dress, which was strikingly plain; a single pearlbut it was priceless onewas its only ornament.

She was in pale blue and cream colour, a milk and water mixture, and looked positively plain.

The first time I saw her, I thought she was uncommonly plain; but afterwards I saw that I had done her injustice.

Its services are pre- eminently plain; all those parts whereon the spirit of innovation has settled so strongly in several churches during the past few years are kept in their original simplicity; and in the general proceedings nothing can be observed calculated to disturb the peace of the most fastidious of show-disliking Churchmen.

She was a decidedly plain girl with a thick nose and a wide mouth set in a grim line above an extraordinarily heavy chin.

Among the latter I observed a small and lithe Indian called Annamikens, or Little Thunder, also called Joseph, whose face had been terribly lacerated in a contest on the plains west of Pembina, with grizzly bears.

On the following morning (January 9, 1847) the American column resumed its march over the Mesaa wide plain which extends from the Rio San Gabriel to the Rio San Fernandosurrounded by reconnoitring parties from the enemy; and when about four miles from Los Angeles the enemy was discovered on the right of the line of march, awaiting its approach.

Berbers tended to become sedentary when they reached the rich plains north of the Atlas.

You are thirteen years old, quite old enough to make up your mind whether you wish to be loved by anybody or not; at present you are not!" Never had the ears of the Paragon heard such disagreeably plain speech.

She was compelled to be brutally plain, and so she drove into his thick head the tempting fact that nothing interposed during the hours of darkness between his eager hands and the paper which she had taught him to covet.

To the rest of the world she was extraordinarily plain and commonplace, but to Johnson she was the mirror of beauty.

Where Andes hides his cloud-wreath'd crest in snow, And roots his base on burning sands below; Cinchona, fairest of Peruvian maids 350 To Health's bright Goddess in the breezy glades On Quito's temperate plain an altar rear'd, Trill'd the loud hymn, the solemn prayer preferr'd:

She was frightfully plain, but thenwell, she had come from India.

For use, not state, Gracefully plain, let each apartment rise.