" Mr. Silk regarded him with a scornful eye, but Miss Kybird, bidding him not to be foolish, punctuated her remarks with the needle, and a struggle, which Mr. Silk regarded as unseemly in the highest degree, took place between them for its possession.

Age has weakened my memory, and I'll be overlooking some o' the saircumstances in a manner that will be unseemly for the occasion.

"Not having had a brother, I know not how to give that thou askest;and 'tis unseemly of thee to ask for that that makes one blush for very shame to be questioned of.

As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved return!