It was an essentially vulgar game, I have heard her say,disputing with her uncle, who was very partial to it.

The most celebrated, I believe, is the fresco by Baldassare Peruzzi, in which the figure of the sibyl is certainly very majestic, but the rest of the group utterly vulgar and commonplace.

His face, with its rounded surfaces, and the sanguine innocence of a complexion belied by prematurely astute black eyes, had a look of jovial cunning which Undine had formerly thought "smart" but which now struck her as merely vulgar.

" Matilda had always known that Hiram and Ellen were hopelessly vulgar; but she had thought they cherished a secret admiration for the "higher things" beyond their reach, and were resolved that their son should be a gentleman and their daughter a lady.

The gentlemen said little about her; but the ladies, in a little while, pronounced her a "good-hearted thing, rather indifferent-looking, totally uneducated, and decidedly vulgar."

Now it murmurs an air joyously vulgar which awakens joy in the heart of the suburbs, an air old-fashioned and commonplace.

The wife, a tolerably stout beauty of about thirty, was dressed out in a fashion which, in my own country, no one, save a lady of an exceedingly vulgar taste would ever think of adoptingall the valuables she possessed in the world, she had got about her.

Worsted or cotton gloves are unutterably vulgar.

Well, you know, dear, he had told me what it really meant; it means Sevenoaks, only it has got down to Snooksboth Snooks and Noaks, dreadfully vulgar surnames though they be, are really worn forms of Sevenoaks.

We do not for a moment allow that the difference between bad taste and good is merely relative, or that a language or art which is externally vulgar can ever be the adequate and appropriate expression of the Catholic religion, whose tendency when unimpeded is ever to refine and purify.

How filthily vulgar!

The difference of calibre between the two is well illustrated by comparing Giorgione's "Satyr" with Dosso's frankly vulgar "Buffone" in the Modena Gallery, or with those uncouth productions, also in the Pitti, the "S. John Baptist" and the "Bambocciate."

" All in the throng, who understood the signification of what the Italian said, laughed aloud, and apparently with great glee, for, to the grossly vulgar, extreme audacity has an irresistible charm.

But, when I think of it, such a combination would seem absurdly vulgar by the side of Hedwig von Lira.

But a statement by a man to an interviewer is felt as indefensibly vulgar.

" "And pray, is there no tittle-tattle, no scandal, no commenting on one's neighbours, in other civilized nations besides this?" "Unquestionably; though I believe, as a rule, it is every where thought to be inherently vulgar, and a proof of low associations.

But it is very hard to trade fine impulses with those who are intrinsically vulgar.

She wouldn't have been the least ashamed, had their connection lasted, of going about with him: so that what a fool, again, her mother had beensince Mr. Connery, sorry as one might be for him, was irrepressibly vulgar.

Truly it was a monstrous domestic institution that not only tolerated, but fostered, such an exhibition of table manners by a would-be fine ladysuch vulgar spite and cruelty!

Galen l. 6, de morbis vulgar.

We suppose, moreover, it is on this principle that Mrs. General This, Mrs. Dr. That, and Mrs. Senator T'other, are as inaccurate as they are notoriously vulgar.

But there is a monstrous low, vulgar set in College nowadays; a man of spirit has no chance with them.

I agree with the late Mrs. Craigie that there was something profoundly vulgar about Thackeray.

a sort of gin-punch, I presumeacidulated blue-ruinVastly vulgar, by Petershamonly fit for the Cider-cellar, Three CrownsAnd thatthatwhite thing there on the other side of the punch-bowl, Money?"

The Marquise was a trifle vulgar and common in her manner of manifesting her displeasure, but the Marquis, a very polite and affable gentleman, did not pay the slightest attention to his wife's daily recriminations, but continued to amuse himself with the charming Ninon.