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‘Carriage Entrance’ was posted above the main arch, on what the writer pleases to call ‘coarse, unclassic boards.’

Lay Morals 2005

His forehead was broad, not high; his face fresh and hale; the harshness of the north was seen in his features, as it was heard in his voice; every trait was thoroughly English - not a Norman line anywhere; it was an inelegant, unclassic, unaristoctatic mould of visage.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

All transgressions and corruptions of language are supposed to originate in that unclassic section, while the truth is that the laws of polite English are as much violated on Fifth Avenue.

How to Speak and Write Correctly Joseph Devlin

The most celebrated sculptors of Europe had made pilgrimages across the sea to refresh their perceptions by gazing upon a figure which, even in the unclassic habiliments of modern dress, caused the Apollo to resemble a plowboy; and the athletes of both hemispheres had, singly, and in pairs, and even in triplets, measured their powers vainly against his unaided arms.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The decorous and beautiful despising of one's self that the study of the classics has come to be as conducted under unclassic teachers, is a fact that speaks for itself.

The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

Culture smiles at this unclassic hymnody of long ago, but its history should disarm criticism.

The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Theron Brown 1873

There was a cab-stance in front of the College; and 'Carriage Entrance' was posted above the main arch, on what the writer pleases to call 'coarse, unclassic boards.'

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

He has turned it into a picture; has helped to make his original only too familiar, perhaps, placing the three sisters against his own favourite, so unclassic, Umbrian background indeed, but with no trace of the Peruginesque ascetic,

Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866

But suddenly it so fell out that both of us were cut short of classics, and flung into this unclassic world.

George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore 1862

The words were unclassic, it may be, reader, but they raised a storm.

Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee John Esten Cooke 1858