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Updated: May 12, 2025
What are the stiff English words to that? 'My husband! Husband is a very uneuphonious name, I think." Norman Mann smiled. "Another cup of coffee, if you please not quite as sweet as the last," and he passed his cup. "I believe there is always a charm in a novel word that has not been commonized by the crowd.
But let the curtain be drawn back for a moment, to reveal a glimpse of that strange, questionable country over which he has been wandering for the last few months, doing hard service. The name, by no means uneuphonious, is yet suggestive of associations far from attractive.
"My dear Clara," he protested gently, "I never admitted I was such an undraped, uneuphonious, square-cornered word as that." "Well, if a forger isn't a crook, then who is? The business of those forged letters of Thomas Jefferson, do you think I can stand for that?" The young man was in earnest, deadly earnest; yet he could not help his wide mouth tilting slightly upward to the right.
It is there that he has built himself a picturesque retreat, a rustic house named Slabsides. I find that, to many, the word "Slabsides" gives the impression of a dilapidated, ramshackle kind of place. This impression is an incorrect one. The cabin is a well-built two-story structure, its uneuphonious but fitting name having been given it because its outer walls are formed of bark-covered slabs.
Delia looked unusually nice in her new brown silk and some beautiful old lace Aunt Clem had given her. People did not wait until ten o'clock for "functions" to begin; neither did they give them that uneuphonious name. Hanny had read and heard a good deal since her first visit to genius in the plain, poor, little cottage; and this certainly had more of the true aspect one connects with poesy.
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