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Mark E Smith has been the diarist of this era, screaming truth at us in the most honest and inornate fashion for all to hear.

FallNet - Old people worry about the milk 1998

The display of the morning was absent now; the nave was inornate, and sleepy.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

The style is still inornate and direct, facts still speak rather than words, and there is nothing approaching the refined psychological dissection of characters and motives such as we find in Wolfram von Eschenbach and the other court writers.

The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914

The secret of this is that the drama, when privily read, seems hard if not heavy in its diction, and to be so inornate, though by no means correspondingly simple, as to render any comparison between it and the dramatic work of Shakspere out of the question.

Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

There the inornate beauty of its finish, the quiet abundance of its delicate woodwork, and the high spaciousness and continuity of its rooms for entertainment won admiration and fame.

Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

Latin, while faithfully representing the originals, were rendered into English that was ungracefully bald and inornate.

Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883

Macaulay, whose resignation was already in Lord Althorp's hands, made a speech which produced all the more effect as being inornate, and, at times, almost awkward.

Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883

The secret of this is that the drama, when privily read, seems hard if not heavy in its diction, and to be so inornate, though by no means correspondingly simple, as to render any comparison between it and the dramatic work of Shakspere out of the question.

Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880

The Sibyl, "speaking with inspired mouth, smileless, inornate, and unperfumed, pierces through centuries by the power of the god."

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

They wore every variety of dress, from that of the desperate thimble-rig bully, with velvet waistcoat, fancy neckerchief, gilt chains, and filagreed buttons, to that of the scrupulously inornate clergyman, than which nothing could be less liable to suspicion.

Tales. 1845