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Updated: May 6, 2025
Therefore he brooded on the fence and gazed with envy at his wistful Duke. The dog's name was undescriptive of his person, which was obviously the result of a singular series of mesalliances. He wore a grizzled moustache and indefinite whiskers; he was small and shabby, and looked like an old postman. Penrod envied Duke because he was sure Duke would never be compelled to be a Child Sir Lancelot.
Why this undescriptive phrase should be applied to every well-attended dance, with a supper, has always perplexed us; for, of course, every one really judges it by his or her own personal success and enjoyment, not unfrequently incompatible with that of some one else. Yet it is all summed up next morning in the summary verdict "good," or "bad."
It seems to me that if we think of matter as something more than properties recognised by the senses, we are going back on the road which leads to the confusion of the alchemical times. The alchemists expressed their conceptions in what seems to us a crude, inconsistent, and very undescriptive language.
So the search and endeavours to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light." The vagueness of the general conceptions of alchemy, and the attribution of ethical qualities to material things by the alchemists, necessarily led to the employment of a language which is inexact, undescriptive, and unsuggestive to modern ears.
When I say child I use an inappropriate and undescriptive term a term suggesting any picture rather than that of the demure little person in a mourning frock and white chemisette, that might just have fitted a good-sized doll perched now on a high chair beside a stand, whereon was her toy work-box of white varnished wood, and holding in her hands a shred of a handkerchief, which she was professing to hem, and at which she bored perseveringly with a needle, that in her fingers seemed almost a skewer, pricking herself ever and anon, marking the cambric with a track of minute red dots; occasionally starting when the perverse weapon swerving from her control inflicted a deeper stab than usual; but still silent, diligent, absorbed, womanly.
Later the names gradually lost sharpness of outline, and eventually faded into "sundries," thus becoming entirely but safely undescriptive. For Sally was crumbling. The placing of these millions added seriously and most uncomfortably to the family expenses in tallow candles. For a while Aleck was worried. Then, after a little, she ceased to worry, for the occasion of it was gone.
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