" "Stuff and nonsense!" was Miss Hildreth's inelegant reply.

With dispatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent, What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes not well join'd, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste, upheld with kindliest change * *

Quite apart from the scandal of their inelegant domesticities, the establishment of the Czar and Czarina in England with frequent and easy access to our royal family may be extraordinarily unfortunate for the British monarchy.

Even in this inelegant and relaxed posture he somehow managed to maintain the air of picturesque dignity which always made his tall, ungainly figure noticeable in any courtroom.

They had to support the disfavor and even the malign attacks of established men of letters who scouted the pretensions of the inelegant to literary fame, and following the lead of Boileau, discredited the romance as absurd and unclassical.

The present setting is clumsy and inelegant; but I really do not know that I could improve upon it, without an admixture of brilliants.' 'Will the diamonds add very much to the expense?'

The round arches of the Christian edifices of Granada seem tame and inelegant, in comparison.

The Author afterwards gives us a particular Description of Eve in her Domestick Employments So saying, with dispatchful Looks in haste She turns, on hospitable Thoughts intent, What Choice to chuse for Delicacy best, What order, so contrived, as not to mix Tastes, not well join'd, inelegant, but bring Taste after Taste; upheld with kindliest Change; Bestirs her then, &c.

In the first, the figure is perhaps robust, but often otherwise,inelegant, partly from careless attitudes, partly from ill-dressing,the face is uncouth in feature, or at least common,the mouth coarse and unformed,the eye unsympathetic, even if bright,the movements of the face clumsy, like those of the limbs,the voice unmusical,and the enunciation as if the words were coarse castings, instead of fine carvings.

" "Have I referred, Sir," said I, "to the inelegant coin you name?"

As a result of this night of horror, Antwerp, to use an inelegant but descriptive expression, developed a violent case of the jim-jams.

A friend with whom we once travelled thought he was roughing it daily for the space of three weeks, because he was obliged to lunch on cold chicken and un-iced Champagne, and when it rained he was forced to seek shelter inside very inelegant hotels on the road.

We doubt whether the "Autocrat" has ever read with proper attention any of our own modest, but not, we hope, inelegant effusions.

They were not inelegant even, though it was not usual, in that period of the republic, to fit up vessels with a magnificence little short of royal yachts, as is done at present.

This inelegant alteration makes as a nominative dependent on was. OBS.

7.The direct use of adverbs for pronouns, is often, if not generally, inelegant; and, except the expression may be thereby agreeably shortened, it ought to be considered ungrammatical.

XII.A needless or indiscriminate use of participles for nouns, or of nouns for participles, is inelegant, if not improper, and ought therefore to be avoided.

"Every attempt to staylace the language of polished conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy."Id.

It is plain, that the two examples which he thus distorts, are neither obscure nor inelegant.

Cossar was a large-bodied man with gaunt inelegant limbs casually placed at convenient corners of his body, and a face like a carving abandoned at an early stage as altogether too unpromising for completion.

The Author afterwards gives us a particular Description of Eve in her Domestick Employments So saying, with dispatchful Looks in haste She turns, on hospitable Thoughts intent, What Choice to chuse for Delicacy best, What order, so contrived, as not to mix Tastes, not well join'd, inelegant, but bring Taste after Taste; upheld with kindliest Change; Bestirs her then, &c.

Fort Knock has occasioned several very perplexed and inelegant Heats and Animosities; and there was one t'other day in a Coffee-house where I was, that took upon him to clear that Business to me, for he said he was there.

George, too, must have been penetrated with the same sentiment, for he rode up close to the cart and grasping the mud guard, turned on his saddle and wistfully shaking his bead, gave vent to his feelings by the following very inelegant but extremely expressive ejaculation: "Quels cochons!

It was evidently not the work of a novice; it was as much out of place in this obscure and inelegant domicil, as a diamond set in filigree, or a rose among pigweed.

This is the way the southern ladies acquire the thick and inelegant pronunciation which distinguishes their utterances from the northern snuffle; and I have no desire that S should adorn her mother tongue with either peculiarity.