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Cossar was a large-bodied man with gaunt inelegant limbs casually placed at convenient corners of his body, and a face like a carving abandoned at an early stage as altogether too unpromising for completion. His nose had been left square, and his lower jaw projected beyond his upper. He breathed audibly. Few people considered him handsome.
Never spit from your mouth the skins of grapes, the stones or pips of fruits. Receive them upon the prongs of your fork, laid horizontally, and place them as conveniently as so inelegant a process will allow upon the edge of your plate. Never play with your fingers upon the table.
I am disgusted that any thing should be found fault with, not because it is a lumpish composition or inelegant, but because it is modern; and that not a favorable allowance, but honor and rewards are demanded for the old writers.
The servant, having asked Mr Cowlishaw if Mr Cowlishaw was at liberty, introduced the patient to the Presence, and the Presence trembled. The patient was a tall, stiff, fair man of about thirty, with a tousled head and inelegant but durable clothing. He had a drooping moustache, which prevented Mr Cowlishaw from adding his teeth up instantly. "Good afternoon, mister," said the patient, abruptly.
His profuse and ornamental locks were reduced to a single roughly-plaited coil; his sandals were inelegant and harsh; in place of his many-coloured flowing robes a scanty blue gown clothed his form. He who had been a god was undistinguishable from the labourers of the fields.
Albert was gazing at Hazel so animatedly, so obviously approving of all she said, that her aunt was very much ruffled. 'No wonder you only want to be like yourself, he said. 'Jam! my word, Hazel, you're jam! 'Albert! cried his mother raspingly, with a pathetic note of pleading, 'haven't I always taught you to say preserve? She was not pleading against the inelegant word, but against Hazel.
"Your obedient, "A. P." These incorrect, inelegant lines produced this immediate reply "I have often told you, that my honour is as dear to me as my life: my word is a part of that honour you heard me say I would never see you again. I shall keep my word."
Johnson's health in these words: "Your health, Mr. Vagabond." Assuredly no well-judging Englishman would undervalue the Frenchman's abilities, because he mistook the meaning of the words Vagabond and Rambler; he would recollect, that in old English and modern French authors, vagabond means wanderer: des eaux vagabondes is a phrase far from inelegant.
The deacon Theodosius, with the bishop and clergy, was dragged in chains from the altar to Palermo, cast into a subterraneous dungeon, and exposed to the hourly peril of death or apostasy. His pathetic, and not inelegant, complaint may be read as the epitaph of his country.
While beneath the window, which was left unclosed, for it was scarcely June, were simple yet not inelegant vases, filled with flowers,
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