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The most striking and unlikeable manifestations were ignorance, credulity, superstition, recklessness, and disregard for all that is 'lovely and of good report. We were particularly struck with the want of foresight, observation, and reflection shewn by a great number of the persons concerned, and of whom other things might have been expected.
He is middle-aged, has a bad record, and is not in any sense of the word a gentleman, but he has plenty of money made it first in California oil, then grub-staked a prospector in British Columbia, cheated him out of his share of the big lode he discovered and doubled his own wealth half a dozen times over. A very undesirable, unlikeable sort of a man.
"How do you like the Chinese?" is the most common of all queries, yet each time it is made I have to reflect as to what my answer shall be. While unable to say that I like them, for, speaking collectively, they are an untaking, unlikeable people, still they possess many qualities and traits of character which per se must recommend them to all unprejudiced observers.
So it was with Jane Roscoe, as worthy and unlikeable a woman as ever organised a household to perfection and alienated every member of her family. The trouble was that she could not rest satisfied with this achievement. She was afflicted with a vehement desire she called it a sense of duty to organise the homes of her less capable relations. If they resented, they were written down ungrateful.
Nothing ill was known of Captain Bruce, and nothing noticed in him unlikeable, or unworthy of liking.
He experienced an instinctive dislike of her, and was positively certain that the vague repugnance would deepen into actual antipathy. "One cannot possibly like everybody," he argued within himself, in extenuation of what he felt was an unreasonable mental attitude; "'And modern fashionable women are among the most unlikeable of all human creatures.
Pale-faced and delicate-looking, very severely treated by his mother, who is what one is bound to call une maîtresse femme, the boy at seventeen was by no manner of means prepossessing, and his efforts to assert himself, and to crush down a good deal of natural awkwardness and timidity added to his singularly unlikeable appearance.
Gowdy, to whom Jared too had been an abstraction an abstraction compact of bumptious heresy as regarded art and of crass ignorance as regarded life in general finally realized him now as a human being, faulty and ill-regulated, indeed, but not altogether unlikeable, and by no means lacking in a sort of rude capacity.
If you can sing and play both, Hen'll set and listen till plumb daylight and never move an eyewinker." Bud looked up, smiled a little because Hen had no eyewinkers to move, and suddenly felt pity because a man could be so altogether unlikeable as Hen.
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