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  • I think to do so would be one's only chance of a summer this year, for anything like the cold and gloom and capricious ungeniality of this pleasant month of August in this southern part of England I never felt.

    Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters 1891

  • For since Alec's kindness had opened to her a well of the water of life, she had almost ceased to suffer from the ungeniality of her guardians.

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

  • It was not stormy, it was not rainy, it was not sunshiny, it was not snowy, it was not frosty, it was not foggy, it was not clear, it was nothing but cloudy and quiet and cold and generally ungenial, with just a puff of wind now and then to give an assertion to its ungeniality.

    Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood George MacDonald 1864

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