10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNPRETTINESS»
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unprettiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unprettiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Supplementary English Glossary
Unpremeditable, not to be premeditated ; unlooked for. A capfull of wind . . .
comes against you . . . with such unpremeditable puffs. — Sterne, Sent. Journey,
The Fragment. Unprettiness, uncomeliness. She says it is not pretty in a young
lady to ...
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1881
2
J. D. Salinger, New Edition
The informally omniscient narrator, as in “A Perfect Day,” offers with relaxed
objectivity a peculiar and certainly puzzling description of Boo Boo: “Her joke of a
name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was—in terms of permanently ...
3
The history of Sir Charles Grandison
... where is the unprettiness of it? Sighing is said to be a sign of being in love ;
and young ladies Ah ! madam ! And yet you sigh, very often — I felt myself blush. I
often catch myself sighing, my dear, said I. It is a trick, as you call it, which I would
...
4
Cincinnati Medical and Dental Journal
PROFESSIONAL JEALOUSY. Upon full consideration we have concluded not to
moralize on the unprettiness of jealousy, per se, but merely to offer a few humble
suggestions as to the exercise of intelligence, tact and discretion, in managing ...
5
Everyone's Choices: Wisdom, Respect, Success and Happiness
Have overcome, are overcoming, or are replacing serious handicaps (muscular
dystrophy, blindness, deafness, unprettiness,...) with wholesome attitudes and
behavior. Can maintain low blood pressures while reading or reciting aloud.
They have feasts for the calendar-days of their Christian church. Because one
ignorant agent—-or the collective and thereby enlarged stupidity of a hundred
agents—detects unprettiness in a dance ( by hearsay), shall we forbid all dances
?
Charles Fletcher Lummis, 1902
7
Samuel Sewall and the World He Lived in
... the season of the year now spending, resolves and goes and lives there ;
notwithstanding the littleness and unprettiness of the house." He returned to
Boston, and entered the family of John Hull, the New England mint-master and
merchant, ...
Nathan Henry Chamberlain, 1897
8
The Novels of Samuel Richardson: The history of Sir Charles ...
... lady to sigh : but where is the unprettiness of it? Sighing is said to be a sign of
being in love ; and young ladies Ah ! madam ! And yet you sigh, very often I felt
myself blush. I often catch myself sighing, my dear, said I. It is a trick, as you call it,
...
9
The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, ...
Will it do me harm? Anne tells me it wi l; and says, I must break myself of it. She
says, it is not pretty in a young lady to sigh: but where is the unprettiness . of it? . \
Sighing is said to be a sign of being in love; and young ladies Ah! madam! and ...
Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), 1810
10
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Mr. Palmer did not look up, but rather turned the page of his newspaper slowly,
communicating thereby that the very idea of prettiness in a girl was trivial in the
extreme, when set against the great masses of unprettiness of which the world
was ...
Jane Austen, Ben H. Winters, 2009
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNPRETTINESS»
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unprettiness is used in the context of the following news items.
12 Takeaways From Miami-Indiana, Round 2
But the unprettiness, when it crops up on either end, is more the product of the dialed-in defense these two play in diametrically opposed styles — Miami using ... «Grantland, Dec 13»
First Listen: Fiona Apple, 'The Idler Wheel...'
... talks about everything. "I like watching you live," she growls at the man who seems to have turned away. It's a joy to hear her live, in all her willful unprettiness. «NPR, Jun 12»
Pop For Skeptics #3: Have Pop Stars Killed the Rock Star?
... seems an even better example. It is a beast of a pop song. It's dark, cold, and jittery. It embodies the kind of unprettiness we want rock to document. It unnerves ... «Flavorwire, Apr 12»
Paul Johnson's "Humorists"
Yet Guilbert had her own awkward features: a lanky, bony unprettiness that Toulouse-Lautrec immortalised in sympathetic caricatures of her. “No stage creature ... «The Economist, Feb 11»
Women seek freedom in mystical plot of Iran
At times the beauty of the visuals work against the defiant unprettiness of the message, though, and you may sense that Neshat prefers art-film looseness ... «Boston Globe, Jun 10»
