May your condition be mild and gentle, for you have had the rudest welcome that ever prince's child did meet with!

Nevertheless, she exerted herself with all a woman's taste and skill to arrange the simple furniture of the hut, and even to add a something of decoration; and both her husband and Winslow wondered at the improvement which she soon effected in the appearance of the dwelling, and the ingenuity with which she converted the rudest materials into articles of use or ornament.

[*] wedded brings Glory out of rudest things, Facts from mere imaginings; Strike from steel its hidden charm!

The rudest language, in which there was anything of natural feeling, would be preferable to this cold splendour.

Weeks before his first mass the woman he loved, in desperation, married a nobodya blow the rudest he had ever experienced.

Modern life has no more tragical figure than the gaunt, hungry labourer wandering about the crowded centres of industry and wealth, begging in vain for permission to share in that industry, and to contribute to that wealth; asking in return not the comforts and luxuries of civilized life, but the rough food and shelter for himself and family, which would be practically secured to him in the rudest form of savage society.

The picture was a happy transcript of one of the fairest creations of the religious school of Florence, done by one of those rustic copyists of whom Italy is full, who appear to possess the instinct of painting, and to whom we owe many of those sweet faces which sometimes look down on us by the way-side from rudest and homeliest shrines.

He finds himself surrounded by the signs of a power and wisdom higher than his own; and, in all ages and nations, men of all orders of intellect, from Bacon and Newton, down to the rudest tribes of cannibals, have believed in the existence of some superior mind.

The judgment with which Sir James, in great masses of the rudest ore of history, selected what was valuable and rejected what was worthless, can be fully appreciated only by one who has toiled after him in the same mine.i.

Probably the enmity between him and Caesar arose or was confirmed in this way, as Cato always made a point of being rudest to those whom he most disliked.

They have extensive clearings and a beautiful mansion houseand generally some forty or fifty rods from the dwelling are situated the negro cabins, or huts, built of logs in the rudest manner.

Some of their tombs are very curious, though they exhibit specimens of the rudest architecture.

The rudest exhibition of art is at first admired, till a nobler is presented, and we are taught to wonder at the facility with which before we had been satisfied.

Before the rudest cave-pictures were scratched on the stone, the story-teller, it is not unreasonable to suppose, was plying his trade.

"The rudest fighting people at least do not go out of their character, and generally behind the roughness there is a certain latent good humor, so that in difficulties it is possible to get on, even with them.

"What!" said one of the rudest of the crew, "can the black brute cut her lifelines?

And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar boy, Deep thought oft seemed to fix his infant eye, Danties he heeded not, nor gaude, nor toy, Save one short pipe of rudest ministrelsy; Silent when glad, affectionate, yet shy ...

Some idea of oath and bond there is in the rudest tribes, in the darkest continents.

A trifling incident, but a trifle is enough to cut the communications between two human beings; it often accomplishes what the rudest shocks would not.

He flung up a window which opened on a ventilating shaft, and showed that the wall was set with iron staples that made the rudest and most perilous of wall ladders to serve as a fire escape from the upper flats.

Alas, the rudest proof for him who speaks the truth is not to arouse indignation.

The knife, or taap, is perhaps the rudest instrument of the sort that ever was made; the handle is about twelve inches long, scraped to a point like the hammer, and has, at the other end, three or four splinters of sharp-edged quartz stuck on in a row with gum, thus forming a sort of ragged instrument.

She lived in the rudest huts, and partook of the coarsest food, and dressed in the scantiest garb, and slept, in multitudinous cabins, upon the hardest boards!

Her furniture is of the rudest kind.

Even in the rudest tribes, the women and children were subject to the will of the stronger, the head of the family.