Anderson likens sorrow to "the huge unshapen monster [who] glared in on pale Frankenstein." ❋ Unknown (2010)
As the huge unshapen monster glared in on pale Frankenstein, ❋ Unknown (2010)
In young, childish, ignorant souls there is constantly this blind trust in some unshapen chance: it is as hard to a boy or girl to believe that a great wretchedness will actually befall them as to believe that they will die. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Nothing was discernible, save a flight of rough unshapen steps which sank into the yawning Gulph and were soon lost in darkness. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Within one hundred yards of the bank of the river, and there alone, were seen the only timber trees we had met with in the country; if huge unshapen eucalypti, which would not afford a straight plank ten feet long, may be so denominated. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Just as in other cases the substratum must be formless and unshapen-for thus the ❋ Unknown (2002)
They passed on, Gollum in front and the hobbits now side by side, up the long ravine between the piers and columns of torn and weathered rock, standing like huge unshapen statues on either hand. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)
Our grandfathers 'temples, whether they stood on the banks of the James River or on the colder shores of Massachusetts Bay, were built cheaply for a scanty population: their material was usually wood, sometimes unshapen logs, and their sites, chosen before the people and the country had become fitted to each other, were afterward often needed for other uses. ❋ Various (N/A)
He bought that block; had it removed to his studio, and then went to work with his mallet and his chisel, and never rested till out of that rough, unshapen mass of stone he made a beautiful marble angel. ❋ Richard Newton (N/A)
For, indeed, they are unacquainted with the use of mortar and tiles; and for every purpose employ rude unshapen timber, fashioned with no regard to pleasing the eye. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
By an outstanding double expression (cf. for similar combinations 18: 27 and 21: 23) an almost onomatopoeic effect is secured to describe the utmost of an unformed and unshapen mass: "waste and void" -- tohu wavohu. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
The two poor things clung closer to each other, both trembling, the one at an unshapen fear, the other at the image of a terrible certainty. ❋ Unknown (1917)
In point of size and weight his thirty-fourth day found him pretty much on a level with a fully grown fox-terrier; though he was, of course, still quite unshapen, and somewhat insecure upon his thick, gristly legs. ❋ Unknown (1912)
He had only his unshapen dreams that battled with him in dark places, the unborn that struggled in his brain for birth. ❋ Willa Sibert Cather (1910)
The thought of what might issue from it by night was unpleasant, and the legends of the Cross-Roads, together with an unshapen threat, easily fancied in the atmosphere of the place, made Miss Sherwood shiver as though a cold draught had crossed her. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
Irene Vanbrugh handled Mr. Jones's unshapen material. ❋ Arthur Symons (1905)
Such a desire was the mother of monstrous and unshapen things. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
This was my dictionary of music, which my scattered, mutilated, and unshapen materials made it necessary to rewrite almost entirely. ❋ Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1896)
Leaden black globular accumulations covered one-third of the sky vault, great unshapen masses overhead rendering the air heavy. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
The sculptor takes a rough, unshapen mass of marble, and with strong, rapid strokes of mallet and chisel quickly brings into view the rude outline of his design; but after the outline appears then come hours, days, perhaps even years, of patient, minute labor. ❋ Orison Swett Marden (1887)
