Of course there must have been many things in Germany which were distasteful to her,so many of the small refinements of life which are absolute necessaries in England were almost unknown luxuries in Germany,particularly when she married.

Florence also and the Florentines were distasteful in their excesses of ill-living, cruelty, and chicanerynot that the Court of Rome was a Paradise, or the young man a St Anthony!

Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple, in that of the lady particularly: it tells you, that her lot is disposed of in this world: that you can have no hopes of her.

The remainder nine are as distasteful as Priam's refuse sons, when the Fates borrowed Hector.

He is least distasteful on 'Changefor the mercantile spirit levels all distinctions, as all are beauties in the dark.

The home supper-table seemed to her singularly flat and distasteful with its commonplace farehot chocolate and creamed potatoes and apple sauce, and its brisk, impersonal talk of socialism, and politics, and small home events, and music.

I found it distasteful at first, but now I prefer it to my old brand, just as the lady's husband finds that he prefers the new margarine to the old butter.

The rescripts of the early emperors recognized too many popular rights to suit the despotic character of Justinian; and the older jurists, like the Scaevolas, Sulpicius, and Labeo, were distasteful from their sympathy with free institutions.

We have nothing to fear, unless, distasteful of the blessings which we have earned, and of the calm which we enjoy, we let loose again, with rash hand, the elements of our constitution, and set them once more to fight against each other.