That rascal Mahtawa is an ugly customer.

It was ugly to look upon, because it was almost entirely covered with an ice-crust that was blackened and uneven and full of cracks and holesas spring ice generally is.

At the Hôtel de Ville called the Römer, which is an ugly Gothic building, but interesting from its being in this edifice that the Emperors were chosen, is to be seen the celebrated Golden Bull which is written on parchment in the Latin language with a golden seal attached to it.

"That's what is so ugly about itthat nothing ever happens," she said.

The reality stood there, commonplace and ugly, side by side with her distorted version of it that lay in my mind.

An old ash tree, ugly and ungainly, had been artificially trained to form an arbor at one end of the terrace that was a tennis lawn, and the leaves of it now went rustling together, swishing as they rose and fell.

Great, full expression of anything is pure, whereas here was only the incomplete, unfinished, and therefore ugly.

Nothing happened anywhere; house, garden, mind alike were barren, abortive, torn by the strife of frustrate impulse, ugly, hateful, sinful.

My legs trembled for an instant, and I caught my breaththen turned and ran as fast as possible up the ugly terraces.

From the lawns and barren garden, from the ugly terraces themselves, it rose into the night, and behind it came a curious driving sound, incomplete, unfinished, as of wailing for deliverance, the wailing of desperate souls in anguish, the dull and dry beseeching of hopeless spirits in prison.

He had "converted" her, I knew, but that she had subscribed whole-heartedly to that most cruel and ugly of his dogmasthis was new to me, and came with a certain shock as I heard it.

"There lies the proof," she went on in a lowered voice, "the proof of the horror and the ugly reality.

Add to it, you know, from time to time; but begin with 'Margaret,' perhaps, and Retzsch's 'Hamlet' or 'Faust,'or a collection of fine wood engravings, such as Mrs. Harris has,and perhaps one of Albert Dürer's ugly things to show off with.

She still watched the train, almost vanishing from sight now in the far distance, leaving a cloud of ugly black smoke behind it to mar the lustrous azure of the June sky.

An ugly, jagged, still fresh wound showed beneath a carefully curled fringe of hair on her forehead.

On the bed lay a large framed, exceedingly ugly looking man.

This ugly, venomous, sin-scarred old rascal held his fate in the hollow of his evil old hand.

This personage is neither merry nor male, like Santa Claus, nor beautiful and childlike, like Christ-kindchen,but is described as a very tall, dark woman, ugly, and rather terrible, "d' una fisionomia piuttosto imponente" who comes down the chimney, on the Eve of Epiphany, armed with a long canna and shaking a bell, to put playthings into the stockings of the good children, and bags of ashes into those of the bad.

They were two cruisers, squat and ugly and vicious in their gray war paint, that watched the entrance to the harbor as you have seen a cat watching a rat hole.

No! John hated war, and the black ugly horrors of it.

She stood before me,really I cannot deny it,a little, ugly, vulgar figure, overloaded with finery, and her laces and ribbons trembled with rage.

If any one had told her that her grandfather had ever been supposed to be in danger of succumbing to charms such as these, she would have thought the notion an ugly example of grown-up pessimism.

Writes verses,has such splendid eyes An ugly name,but Laura fancies He's some great person in disguise!

Was it because big-waisted women were so frequently fat and forty, old and ugly?

Lord Kames commends Dean Swift for having done "all in his power to restore the syllable ed;" says, he "possessed, if any man ever did, the true genius of the English tongue;" and thinks that in rejecting these ugly contractions, "he well deserves to be imitated.