"Unpleasing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and contemplated the public works, of the Roman empire. The observation of the number and greatness of its cities will serve to confirm the former, and to multiply the latter. It may not be unpleasing to collect a few scattered instances relative to that subject without forgetting, however, that from the vanity of nations and the poverty of language, the vague appellation of city has been indifferently bestowed on ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... the dignity of virtue; she holds herself as erect as a confidante on the stage of the Francais; nothing will persuade me that she has not been impaled and the shaft broken off in her body. Miss Stevens is, however, fair enough to be not too unpleasing if I must positively marry her. But—and this to me is truly pathetic—she has the hands of a woman as immaculate as the sacred ark; they are so red that I have not yet hit on any way to whiten them that will not be too costly, and I have no idea how to fine down her fingers, which ...
— The Marriage Contract • Honore de Balzac
... of his own to wake; but, on the very threshold of chivalry, which is the perfection of justice, had unjustly purloined the arms of another knight. That this was a mere mockery of a religious institution, and therefore unpleasing in the sight of Heaven; witness the demons and hobgoblins that were permitted to disturb and torment him in ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett
... the surer with a country girl, he thought. But there was that in his tone, besides the freedom of sounding her praises in her own ears, which was unpleasing to Annie's ladyhood, and ...
— What's Mine's Mine • George MacDonald
... man,'" replied the other, with quiet indifference, in a gloomy but not unpleasing voice, and stepped back to allow his ...
— The Mystery of Murray Davenport - A Story of New York at the Present Day • Robert Neilson Stephens
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