While he regretted the idolatry of Jezebel, he may have censured what would be called the uncourtly intolerance or the bigoted zeal of the prophets, who uttered such denunciations and threatenings against the reigning family. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His attitude was easy and bold, but neither clownish nor uncourtly. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Achilles, conscious perhaps that it was his best policy not to drive his subaltern to extremity, lowered his tone somewhat in reply to the uncourtly note of the soldier, as if allowing something for the rude manners of one whom he considered as not easily matched among the ❋ Unknown (2008)
I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Imagine to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor ❋ Unknown (2003)
But it was redeemed by a love for a most uncourtly idea: democracy. ❋ Robert L. Heilbroner (1999)
You have very litle Inclination, to that noble and elegant Diversion, and whenever you have taken an Hand you have held it but aukwardly and played it, with a very uncourtly, and indifferent, Air. ❋ Unknown (1963)
What would a first lord of the Admiralty say to such a reception? and it must have been somewhat uncourtly to our traveller. ❋ Various (N/A)
I loved him with an eager and devoted affection, although his heart was not mine -- poor simple uncourtly girl as I am -- although it was another's. ❋ Various (N/A)
He visited Sicily, where he was so unfortunate as to call upon himself the resentment of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, through having worsted him in an argument, and also by an uncourtly plainness of speech. ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)
"Ancient Site of the Exeter 'Change," &c.; showing how the magnificent house of Burleigh, where Queen Elizabeth deigned to visit her favourite treasurer -- at length became a receptable for uncourtly beasts, birds, and reptiles, whilst the lower part became a little nation of shopkeepers, among whom shine conspicuous the parsimony and good fortune of Mr. Clarke, the cutler, who amassed here a princely fortune. ❋ Various (N/A)
As for the common people, they are serious, shrewd, and industrious; but often seem rude and uncourtly to strangers, for they wish to show their independance by an annoying surliness of behaviour. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
I had always felt aversion to my uncourtly patronymic, and its very common, if not plebeian praenomen. ❋ J. Montgomery Gambrill (N/A)
Gardiner asked who that was; the duke answered, "his physician, who was somewhat uncourtly, as being new come from the university." ❋ John Foxe (N/A)
Nature when we think of this boy's heritage of joy compared with her step-son, to whom she has given the burning blushes, the awkward step, the heavy self-consciousness, the uncourtly gait, the hesitating speech, and the bashful demeanor. ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)
This document had been sent to the Council at Berlin, and been returned by them for revision by the duke, and the softening of its rather uncourtly decisiveness of expression. ❋ Various (N/A)
