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After a little pause, the excelient old man said, 'Daphnus. 'Daphnus! repeated I, 'who the devil is he? 'Why, answered Fontenelle, with tears of gratitude in his benevolent eyes, 'I had some hypochondriacal ideas that suppers were unwholesome; and Daphnus is an ancient physician, who asserts the contrary; and declares, think, my friend, what a charming theory! that the moon is a great assistant of the digestion!"
The sidewalks are crowded with the stalls of a yet more petty trade; the neighborhood is full of unpleasant sights, unwholesome odors, and revolting sounds. But the Hester Street of seventy years ago and more was another matter.
During the progress of this famous bubble, England presented a singular spectacle. The public mind was in a state of unwholesome fermentation. Men were no longer satisfied with the slow but sure profits of cautious industry. The hope of boundless wealth for the morrow made them heedless and extravagant for to-day.
And I have told, too, how I bought a picture. All this was a thing apart from the rest of my life, a locked avoided chamber.... It was not until my last year at Trinity that I really broke down the barriers of this unwholesome silence and brought my secret broodings to the light of day. Then a little set of us plunged suddenly into what we called at first sociological discussion.
For these reasons, sites which are unwholesome in such respects are to be avoided, and healthy sites selected. The foundation walls will be an easier matter if they are on a hillside; but if they have to be laid on a plain or in a marshy place, solidity must be assured and substructures built in accordance with what has been written in the third book, on the foundations of temples.
He was a slender man of medium height, and of an age that might have been anything between twenty and fifty; his eyes, hair, brows, and lashes were all of a uniform shade of pale yellow excepting that the eyes had a greenish tint while his face and thin, nervous hands wore a dead, unwholesome pallor. The effect was extraordinary.
This threatened appendix to the State Calendar may have existed only in the imaginations of the reporters, yet inspired some uneasy apprehensions in the minds of many well-wishers to the Maltese, who knew that for a foreign settlement at least, and one, too, possessing in all the ranks and functions of society an ample population of its own such a stately and wide-branching tree of patronage, though delightful to the individuals who are to pluck its golden apples, sheds, like the manchineel, unwholesome and corrosive dews on the multitude who are to rest beneath its shade.
And three did be dull coloured and seeming much haired and brutish; but the other did be an horrid white, and livid-blotched; so that it did seem to my spirit that there went by, a thing that did be a very man-monster filled of unwholesome life. And surely they did be gone from out of the shine of the fire, in one moment, as we do say; and again into the night to their dreadful chasing.
The coalyard, if not particularly pleasant, was not unwholesome; there was sunshine in every room, and finally, the rent was eighteen dollars. They must entertain their friends elsewhere. She did not know then that what really won him was her youth and beauty; the new brilliant colour, the blue, blue eyes, the revived strength and charm of the whole, lovely woman.
King William jealous of Public Honors to Victoria Anecdote The unusual Studies of the Princess Her Visits to the Isle of Wight Laughable Incident at Wentworth House Anecdote related by her Music-teacher Unwholesome adulation of the Princess Reflections upon the curious isolation of her Social Position Extract from one of her later Letters.
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