127 examples of unadorned in sentences

At the bottom of his heart he shared Patricia's regret that the Stapylton pedigree was unadorned by a potentate, because nobody can stay unimpressed by a popular superstition, however crass the thing may be.

The Scottish bard was introduced to the world by his first admirers as "a heaven-taught ploughman, of humble unlettered station," whose "simple strains, artless and unadorned, seem to flow without effort from the native feelings of the heart"; and as "a signal instance of true and uncultivated genius."

He always preaches sincerely; a quiet spirit of simple unadorned, piety pervades his remarksbut he depresses you too much; and is rather predisposed to a calm mournful consideration of the great sulphur question.

Moreover it was unadorned by either beard or moustache.

It has been called "the most unadorned poem that can be found.

The Crown of the Prince of Wales, of pure gold, unadorned by jewels.

plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of- fact, natural, prosaic.

The exterior surface was perfectly simple and unadorned.

The window was heavily draped with black cloth, but was otherwise unadorned.

There is no passage that is not made up of blushing lines, no line that is not enriched with a sparkling metaphor, no image that is left unadorned with a double epithetall his verbs, nouns, adjectives, are equally glossy, smooth, and beautiful.

But there is such a thing as a careful negligence; for as some women are said to be unadorned to whom that very want of ornament is becoming, so this refined sort of oratory is delightful even when unadorned.

But there is such a thing as a careful negligence; for as some women are said to be unadorned to whom that very want of ornament is becoming, so this refined sort of oratory is delightful even when unadorned.

Since those quaintly simple and emphatic statements which, under the name of Froissart's Chronicles, seem to perpetuate the instinctive notion of History, as an honest and earnest, but unadorned and unelaborate narrative of military and political facts,not only has there been a continual refinement of style and enlargement of scope and art, but a greater complexity and subdivision in the historian's labors.

There was no room for the pedant, with his greed for unadorned and unemotional precision.

But if this be jam, give me my next pill unadorned.

This, in plain, unadorned speech, was what you thought.

"The first lines of Paradise Lost," says Addison, "are perhaps as plain, simple, and unadorned, as any of the whole poem, in which particular the author has conformed himself to the example of Homer, and the precept of Horace.

I desire you, if you can, to preach a short, unadorned funeral sermon.

The unadorned story of his life, what he was and what he did by the grace of God, will cheer the hearts of all the friends of foreign missions, and win others to a just esteem of the cause which could attract such a man to its service and animate him to such a conspicuous and blessed career.

The PRINCE OF WALES'S CROWN is of pure gold, unadorned with jewels.

She, as a Veil, down to her slender waste Her unadorned golden tresses wore Dis-shevel'd, but in wanton ringlets wav'd.

And as this is the true, the glorious Character of the Deity, so in forming a reasonable Creature He would not, if possible, suffer his Image to pass out of his Hands unadorned with a Resemblance of Himself in this most lovely Part of his Nature.

The Prince looked down at the strong, unadorned hilt thoughtfully and sighed.

Beauty unadorned with a vengeance!

They may talk of their virtue, their learning, and what not; but, without either of them, I shall bear off the palm of respect from those who have them, unadorned with gold and its shining appendages.

127 examples of  unadorned  in sentences