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  • But in almost every other respect the novel is sheer rhetoric, crudeness, and unshapeliness.

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • The odd unshapeliness of their ill-built bodies in their ill-fitting clothes, the stained and streaky blue of the badly-dyed serge, and the shallow, vibrating magenta of the ribbon made it very fitting that they should stand in the foreground of the mean winter day which had coloured the farmyard and its buildings sour, soiled tones of grey.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • I speak not of those things which seem unshapely; for even in their unshapeliness there is, sometimes, a beauty, which not a little modifies their appearance.

    Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois 1506-1566 1903

  • By a slight stress laid on the difference of usage the unshapeliness may be done away with, and a new grace found where none was sought.

    Style Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

  • In his emotion all unshapeliness of limb or movement seemed to have disappeared.

    Eleanor Humphry Ward 1885

  • Like the film's title, their doubt would be more apt if Pegg's unshapeliness was the result of more than modest padding on his stomach.

    UltimateDisney.com and DVDizzy.com 2008

  • Like the film's title, their doubt would be more apt if Pegg's unshapeliness was the result of more than modest padding on his stomach.

    UltimateDisney.com and DVDizzy.com 2008

  • For as she was mean in her aspect, her nurse, considering that she was the daughter of wealthy persons and was of uncomely aspect, and seeing moreover that her parents were troubled by it, — perceiving I say these things, her nurse devised as follows: — every day she bore her to the temple of Helen, which is in the place called Therapne, lying above the temple of Phoebus; and whenever the nurse bore her thither, she placed her before the image and prayed the goddess to deliver the child from her unshapeliness.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

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