This suggestion was exceedingly unpalatable to the Bonze, who felt almost equally unwilling to venture himself into a wild beast's den or to give any other person the chance of making the discovery.

They feed on the wild produce of the hills, which sometimes imparts to their flesh a bitter but not unpalatable taste.

It is to be feared that sooner or later, unless Germany's military pride and unbounded greed of her neighbour's goods can be checked, German professors will be engaged in the scientific task of proving that the waters of the upper Rhine are unpalatable because the lamb residing in Holland has stirred up mud in the lower reaches of the same river!

Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draught of mortality.

I went in fact as far as I could in adopting his views in the hope that my advice would be less unpalatable and would, as a consequence, receive more sympathetic consideration.

Their present scarcely differed from their former demands; nor were they less unpalatable to the king.

The introduction of the paper on Popular Education, in what the editor himself calls "a work of elegant amusement like the present," is somewhat objectionable, and the writer's sentiments will be very unpalatable to a certain party.

Your answer is that the war and other happenings have shown you that age is not necessarily another name for sapience; that our avoidance of frankness in life and in the arts is often, but not so often as you think, a cowardly way of shirking unpalatable truths, and that you have taken us off our pedestals because we look more natural on the ground.

It abounded, indeed, in swarms of wild bees, but its very honey was bitter and unpalatable, from being infected with the acrid taste of the box-flowers on which they fed.

Yet, in spite of the unpalatable knowledge, I almost regret that this is our last day in the establishment.

It was not altogether unpalatable, something like light but rather sweet hock; very different, however, in its effects to that innocent beverage, and one could not drink much with impunity.

From the negro, said they, we will accept these statements as true,from him, they are pertinent and forcible; but when such unpalatable truths are uttered by a white clergyman, we cannot abide, nor will we listen to them!

Now know, all ye Northerners, by this cowardly blow on the devoted head of your honored and respected Senator, that we shall no longer permit you to tell us such unpalatable truths, nor allow you the privilege of free speech!

In referring to it as "abasement," not the slightest idea of casting contumely or obloquy on our ancestors is intended by the humble writer of pungent but sometimes unpalatable truth.

Ambrosia, depend upon it, would prove unpalatable, at first, to organs degraded by coarse mortal food.

"I believe that you wish to serve me, and you cannot better do so than by putting these unpalatable truths into a less repulsive form.

As Richelieu was well aware, no proposal could be more unpalatable than this to the haughty Princess.

Our young men here were like children with a medicinethey proposed first one form of taking this military potion, then another, and finding them all equally unpalatable, would not, but for a little salutary force, have decided at all.

He did not fast on purpose, but his long walks through wild country and indigent people inflicted on him much severe deprivation: moreover, as he ate whatever food offered itself,food unpalatable and often indigestible to him, his whole frame might have vied in emaciation with a monk of La Trappe.

After our most uncomfortable and unpalatable breakfast, the first question for consideration was, what we were to do with ourselves.

Indeed, Florence would not have found her sojourn at Brussels to be unpleasant were it not for Mr. Anderson's unpalatable little whispers.

" "You certainly have a knack, Miss Grey, of making the most unpalatable assertions.

" "I will make another more unpalatable.

Dry, harsh, or underdone, they are as unwholesome as unpalatable.

But it is the play of wit and the joy of song that he loves; and if you mistake him for a low rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys, and to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world.