Taller by a head than anybody in the room except Duchemin, his figure was remarkably thin, yet not ill-proportioned.

And 'tis impossible almost in such cases the wife should contain, or the good man not be jealous: for when he is so defective, weak, ill-proportioned, unpleasing in those parts which women most affect, and she most absolutely fair and able on the other side, if she be not very virtuously given, how can she love him?

Cook was not favourably impressed by these islanders, and describes them as "in general, the most ugly ill-proportioned people I ever saw."

The David which sculptors say is ill-proportioned!

It was ill-proportioned.

He looked quite shabby in his long frayed coat, his unpolished shoes, his gray slouch hatshabby and homely, and ill-proportioned, stooping a little, his rough shock of hair framing the furrowed face and sunken melancholy eyes.

John Inglesant is not a wholly artistic hook, because it is ill-proportioned and the structure is weakthe middle is not in the centre, and it leaves off, not because the writer appears to have come to the end, but because it could not well be longer.

The thoughts that were bright and shapely by day become dark and ill-proportioned like shadows.

The figures are ill-proportioned; the faces consist of lines without any attempt at form or expression.

HEBBEL, FRIEDRICH, lyrist and dramatist, born at Weselburen, Ditmarsh; settled in Vienna in 1846; "Die Nibelungen" is his best play, others are "Judith," "Maria Magdalena," &c.; his dramas are vigorous and original, but ill-proportioned, and in the passions they depict abnormal; his works are collected in 12 vols.