I have used you very unhandsomely in not answering your repeated enquiries but if you could see me, and know what I have suffer'd, and am suffering as to health, you would say peace. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There's time enough to look about you; only as Mr. Mandlebert has behaved so unhandsomely, I hope none of the family will give him their countenance. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Her looks of grateful acknowledgment, her words of affectionate courtesy, had been repelled with something which approached to disdain; and if the Master of Ravenswood had sustained wrongs at the hand of Sir William Ashton, his conscience told him they had been unhandsomely resented towards his daughter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But Mary Anne Perkinsop although I behaved handsomely to her and she behaved unhandsomely to me was worth her weight in gold as overawing lodgers without driving them away, for lodgers would be far more sparing of their bells with Mary Anne than I ever knew them to be with Maid or ❋ Unknown (2007)
But if my Lord Petre is to marry another lady, I hope that people will not think Miss Fermor has been treated unhandsomely. ❋ Sophie Gee (2007)
And do not think so unhandsomely of your mother, as to fear that she would make partial constructions against me. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But, were he in good health, he would not, as I understand, visit at Harlowe-place, having some time since been unhandsomely treated by your brother, on his offering to mediate for you with your family. ❋ Unknown (2006)
If there are any letters, in which he has treated my sister unhandsomely, you must not let me see them. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A man may have a garment that may fit very ill, very unhandsomely about him. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
How they will justify themselves at the day of judgment for troubling the peace of the saints of God, and shaking the great fundamental articles of the Reformation, I know not; but it is no news, for men loving novelties to dispute themselves they know not whither, and to recoil or retire unhandsomely. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
The Lord knows we are all moved and shaken, -- and ready to be so, sometimes, very unhandsomely and unduly, -- as the leaves of the forest; but it will keep us from being greatly moved. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
You had the best chance; you were here from the first, but from some whim determined not to put down your name, and looked glum whenever I passed you, and now you think that I will treat one of these young men so unhandsomely. ❋ Maude Alma (N/A)
Jenny, Oscar, the General slipped by me, and unhandsomely got in first. ❋ Julia De Winton (N/A)
The only men who behaved unhandsomely on the occasion were some of the Irish members, advocates of Repeal, who, with more than national brass, grounded their declinature on the galling yoke of the Saxon, and retreated to Connemara, doubtless exulting that in this instance at least they had freed themselves from "hereditary bonds." ❋ Various (N/A)
He was apparently about twenty-five, dressed in the holiday rig of a sailor on shore, which well set off his fine athletic figure, and accorded with a sort of easy, dashing, and confident air which sat not unhandsomely on him. ❋ Various (N/A)
Being thus awakened to a sense of my wickedness, I felt remorse in my mind, and on getting home I retired and prayed to the Lord to forgive me, and I do not remember that I ever afterwards spoke unhandsomely to either of my parents, however foolish in some other things. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Fundy tides, you will find, unhandsomely housed on a side street, a hook and ladder company, known unofficially and intimately throughout the department as the Gray Horse Truck. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)
England by August 10th, for on that date we find the following entry in the Privy Purse expenses of Henry VII., revealing a particularly stingy recognition of the discoverer's splendid service, which, however, was soon afterwards recognized less unhandsomely: ❋ Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead (1901)
She has cast him off most unhandsomely, that's the truth on't, and would have tied him to such conditions as he might have been her slave withal, but could never be her husband. ❋ Parry, Edward A (1901)
