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The story would come out, bit by bit, as the woman sat there, a worn, unlovely figure, her hands -- toil-blackened, seamed, calloused, unlovelier than any woman's hands were ever meant to be -- lying in unaccustomed idleness in her lap.

Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

The story would come out, bit by bit, as the woman sat there, a worn, unlovely figure, her hands -- toil-blackened, seamed, calloused, unlovelier than any woman's hands were ever meant to be -- lying in unaccustomed idleness in her lap.

Fanny Herself 1917

He tidied it up with his own hands, removing or concealing the unlovelier signs of his presence and profession.

The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

For a people who were what the Puritans were before Puritanism, cannot be changed by the Holy Ghost into angels of light; their stubborn carnality will not evaporate like a mist; it clings to them, and being now so discordant with the impulse within, an awkwardness and uncouthness result, which suggest some strange hybrid: to the eye and ear, they are unlovelier and harsher than they were before their illumination; but

The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890

For the myth of Demeter, like the Greek religion in general, had its unlovelier side, grotesque, unhellenic, unglorified by art, illustrated well enough by the description Pausanias gives us of his visit to the cave of the Black Demeter at Phigalia.

Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866

See him in his earlier strife with the obstinate matter -- how uncouth the first outline of limb and feature; unlovelier often in the rugged commencements of shape, than when the dumb mass stood shapeless.

Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

He is too keen on the unlovelier aspects of tabloid journalism.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Vicki Woods 2011

- might be blinded to the unlovelier inclinations of the Progressive

Thestar.com - Home Page 2010