1914 examples of unworthy in sentences

For some time Adelheid clung to this discovery as to a healthful and proper antidote to her own truant inclinations, but native rectitude banished a suspicion which had no sufficient ground, as equally unworthy of them both.

" Il Maledetto smiled grimly, and muttered a sentence between his teeth; for, in perfect consonance with the frank lawlessness of his own life, there was a reckless honesty in his nature, which caused him to despise hypocrisy as unworthy of the bold attributes of manhood.

You are of mother church, Signore, being of Italy?" "I am one of her unworthy children," returned the Genoese.

The nobles were ashamed to mix in commerce, considering it unworthy of them, and the bourgeois, for want of liberal feeling and expansiveness in their ideas, were satisfied with appropriating merely local trade.

I am reckoned cold, dull, and unworthy of such a husband; and it is quite right, for I never appear anything else.

When this is fairly done, perhaps the whole that is recorded in this book, may be thought more valuable than it is at present, and be found a not unworthy subject to devote a whole life to become acquainted with and elucidate both practically and theoretically.

This form of agnosticism is unworthy of a nation which is responsible for the happiness of 300,000,000 Asiatics.

They made inquiries as to Jogesh's position and soon discovered that he was a man of straw, quite unworthy of powder and shot.

Then the Magistrate spoke in tones of chilling politeness: "Rái Bahádur, I've sent for you to say that a subscription of Rs. 10,000 is wholly unworthy of your position.

Unworthy details flashed across me to entice: the fine library, the organ, the quiet work-room I should have, perfect service, the delicious cup of early tea, and hot baths at any moment of the daywithout a geyser!

You cannot disgrace the blue, but can make yourselves unworthy to wear it.

We never knew what a great man Jackson was, until the country was cursed by Buchanan's occupation of the same chair that Jackson had filled,a chair that he was unworthy to dust,and by his cowardice and treachery which made civil war inevitable.

The criminal was his trusted servant, who had proved unworthy of confidence.

Although the phylloxera had blighted nearly all the vineyards in this region, the landlord here was able to put upon the table some wine, grown upon his own hillside, not unworthy of the ancient reputation of the Cahors district for its vintage.

A moment after she exclaimed upon him in a disconsolate, yet reproachful tone, for his unworthy deference to the prejudices of the world.

Madam, I come a-wooing; and for one Who is as only worthy of your love, As you of his; he bids me claim the spousals Made long ago between you,and yet leaves Your fancy free, to grant or pass that claim: And being that Mercury is not my planet, He hath advised himself to set herein, With pen and ink, what seemed good to him, As passport to this jewelled mirror, pledge Unworthy of his worship.

That may have been an unworthy thought for a friend: but it was an unavoidable one for a woman.

Come, now, dear, is not even one unworthy soul worth saving?" "My Lord, you have taught me how wise my holy father was in forbidding me to listen to you.

" "I belong to the San Marco in Florence, of which you may have heard," said Father Antonio, "and am an unworthy disciple of the traditions of the blessed Angelico, whose visions of heavenly things are ever before us; and no less am I a disciple of the renowned Savonarola, of whose fame all Italy hath heard before now.

" "Dear son," said the monk, "accept a most unworthy, but sincere follower of this holy prophet, who yearns for thy salvation.

" "Well, then, father, come hither to me to-morrow at this same hour, if I be not too unworthy of your pastoral care.

Still, however, Marie remained firm, rejecting the conditions which were proposed to her as unworthy alike of her rank and of the position she had hitherto held in the kingdom; and the month of March went by without the attainment of any result.

He therefore, as well as Diomedes, and other ancient writers, divided the grammarian's duties into two parts; the one including what is now called grammar, and the other the explanation of authors, and the stigmatizing of the unworthy.

"Can any thing show your holiness how unworthy you treat mankind?"Spect.,

If he is unworthy of remaining in the Order, he should be removed from it at once; but if he is worthy of continuing in it, there certainly can be no objection to his making use of his right to visit.

1914 examples of  unworthy  in sentences