Ill Nurtured

Word ILL NURTURED
Character 12
Hyphenation ill -nur tured
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“It is a currish proposal — thus to thrust thyself upon my private matters,” replied Foster; “but thou wert ever an ill-nurtured whelp.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

Matteo lifted his eyes to the matrix of seeming disorder, workers and visitors seething beyond the buildings lining the basins, and wondered at the venerable sow, ill-nurtured and slack with inanition, who yet could produce robust litters on demand. ❋ Unknown (2004)

With beating heart he walked softly toward the room where, as on an altar, lay the vanishing form of his master, like the fuel in whose dying flame was offered the late and ill-nurtured sacrifice of his spirit. ❋ Various (N/A)

Others urge that it is wrong to check the native races on the ground that they are normally ill-nurtured and the slaughter of wild animals is their only means of obtaining a supply of protein to supplement a cereal diet. ❋ Unknown (1931)

The latter is supposed to be one of the most ill-nurtured and desolate provinces of the Empire, mountainous, void of cultivation when compared with Szech'wan, one mass of high hills conditioned now as Nature made them; and the people, too, ashamed of their own wretchedness, are ill-fed and ill-clad. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

Moreover, a cold thaw set in, and the house grew icy, so that they moved about it with chattering teeth, and at night, ill-nurtured as they were, could scarce keep the life in them beneath all the coverings which they had. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Y '' ave been ill-nurtured, methinks, and yet ye have the makings of some good, and, beyond all question, saved me from the river. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

The poor little victim who first sees the light in the Borough or Shadwell, or in the noxious alleys of our reeking industrial towns, receives foul air, mere atmospheric garbage, into his lungs; he becomes thin-blooded, his unwholesome pallor witnesses to his weakness of vitality, his muscles are atrophied, and even his hair is ragged, lustreless, ill-nurtured. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

The man coming up the lane, with a savage dog, was the father of the ill-nurtured children. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

She knew enough of the manners and customs, the looks and the intelligence of the children of educated parents, to be aware that there were "makings" in those who were born heirs to developed intellects, and the grace that comes of discipline, very different from the "makings" to be found in the "voolish" descendants of ill-nurtured and uneducated generations. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)

Did the new housewife talk of a halter because he showed his teeth when her ill-nurtured brat wanted to ride on him? ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

The Countess swooped upon him in one of her ungovernable furies -- one of those of which even Gilbert Talbot avoided writing the particulars to his father -- abusing his whole household in general, and his son in particular, in the most outrageous manner, for thus receiving the favour she had done to their beggarly, ill-favoured, ill-nurtured daughter. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

'Lady,' replied Suffolk, bowing low and doffing his cap, 'yonder ill-nurtured knave hath been robbing the country-folk, and the -- the man-at-arms there not only refuses to give him up to justice, but has hurt, well-nigh slain, some of them in violently taking him from them. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

You a poor, weak starveling of a child shivering in your shoes, and ill-nurtured by the coarse food he gave you, and he a great, hulking, muscular villain, tall and long-limbed, and all-powerful in his wretched Empire; while you were so ignorant as not to know that the Law, were he discovered (but who was to denounce him?), might trounce him for his barbarity. ❋ George Augustus Sala (1861)

But know, it is not our purpose to harm thee — thou art of a falcon breed, and noble in thy disposition, though, unreclaimed and ill-nurtured, thou hauntest with kites and carrion crows. ❋ Unknown (1855)

But know, it is not our purpose to harm thee -- thou art of a falcon breed, and noble in thy disposition, though, unreclaimed and ill-nurtured, thou hauntest with kites and carrion crows. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

"It is a currish proposal -- thus to thrust thyself upon my private matters," replied Foster; "but thou wert ever an ill-nurtured whelp." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

"Well, ill-favored, scrimped; that means ill-nurtured simply. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

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