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The coffin of Aumia was then beside the house, turned over so that rain might not make it unpresentable. She had asked for it weeks before. To the Marquesan his coffin is as important as, to us, the house the newly-married pair are to live in.
They sat very carelessly in their chairs, and were too excellent themselves to value any condition at a high rate. I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person. The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
Your deadly disease is oftener than not a gentleman who takes your life without mauling you, but the minor diseases are mere bruisers who just go in for making one as uncomfortable and unpresentable as possible. Mr.
Another woman danced with grave mien, and I knew that it was the gravity of sex To watch dancing couples became a passion with me. One evening, as I stood watching the waltzing members of a wedding party, a married sister of the bride's shouted to me in Yiddish: "What are you doing here? Get out. You're a kill-joy." This was her way of alluding to my unpresentable appearance.
His khaki suit was weather-faded to a dirty green, and he was grimy and perspiring and altogether unpresentable; but he pulled himself together and tried to look pleasant when he saw that his chief had a companion, and that the companion was a lady. "I'm sorry if I have kept you waiting," he began.
I suppose, Marchesa carissima, that Donna Beatrice may come with me in the skiff, under your eye, if she is accompanied by your maid?" "Of course, my dear San Miniato! Do you expect me to get into your little boat and hunt for reptiles? Or do you expect that Beatrice will renounce the amusement of getting wet and covered with seaweed and thoroughly unpresentable?" "And you, Donna Beatrice?
Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with. I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
There had been a dreary drizzle of rain outside, and I was conscious that my long wanderings through muddy streets had rendered me unpresentable. Still, my wish had been granted me.
But the stranger drew back, shaking his head sadly. "You do not understand, madam. It is not that my clothes are unpresentable, it is I, myself, who am unfit to stand in your presence, much less to enter your house. I thank you, but I must go." He was turning away, when Auntie Sue reached his side and placed her gentle old hand lightly on his arm. "Please, won't you come in, sir?
For all-over embroidery one chooses, naturally, a coarse canvas ground to work on; but it more often happens that one chooses canvas because one means to cover it, than that one works all over a ground because it is unpresentable.
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