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'funeste', forbidding, and unpleasing one that can possibly be imagined.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

'funeste', forbidding, and unpleasing one that can possibly be imagined.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1753-54 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

So the pretty oval, containing the fair golden hair and large eyes, the pale, unfathomable sphinx, remounted to its nail, and the funeste and beautiful child seemed to smile down oracularly on our conjectures.

Uncle Silas 2003

I stared at my cousin for some time, and then at the little boy, so refined, so beautiful, so funeste, in the oval frame.

Uncle Silas 2003

Un nuage de _sewer-gaz_ monte jusqu'à JANE stationnée sur la hauteur de Belleville; et dans cette brume puante elle sent l'odeur de femmes et de l'ognon, le cognac, le meurtre, le fricot, le mont de piété, les omnibus, les croquemorts, les gargotes, les bals à l'entrée libre pour dames, tout ce qu'il y a de funeste et de choquant dans cette ville infecte.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various

"Rien n'est plus funeste au pays que la permission qui est accordée aux alcaldes de faire le commerce pour leur compte." i, p. 351.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

Rousseau found no reason except, as he says, _quelque funeste hasard_.

Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888

Cette funeste tendance leur a été inspirée par les flatteries de tous ceux qui briguent leurs suffrages, et leur rappellent que toute législation émane d'eux.

Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. John Knox Laughton 1872

Don't you know very well, in a small place like this, they are all alive with curiosity? and if you choose to make such a tragedy figure, and keep moping and crying, and all that sort of thing, and look so _funeste_ and miserable, you'll be sure to fix attention and set the whole d-- d place speculating and gossiping? and really, Radie, you're making mountains of mole-hills.

Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

I stared at my cousin for some time, and then at the little boy, so refined, so beautiful, so _funeste_, in the oval frame.

Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843