Higham's language soared spoutingly to high heaven. But he turned back and, with vicious grabs, cleared the lawn of its unsightly litter. "Take it into the boat with you." said the Master. "That's all. Goodbye. See you at the Beauville show."
Waiting only for the canoe and its four vociferous occupants to start safely from shore, the Master returned to the house; Lad at his heels; pursued by a quadruple avalanche of abuse from the damp trespassers. "There'll be a comeback of some kind to this, Laddie," he told the collie, as they moved on. "I don't know just what it'll be.英文原著 · 《Further Adventures of Lad》
As Alida had promised herself, she spent all the money which the eggs brought in, but Holcroft found pretty muslin curtains at the parlor windows, and shades which excluded the glare from the kitchen. Better china took the place of that which was cracked and unsightly. In brief, a subtle and refining touch was apparent all over the house.英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
But when he reached a dark unsightly door
Beyond the grave, there stood his secret thought. It was the mansion he had built and brought
To dwell in, on that shore.英文原著 · 《New Thought Pastels》
ORESTES 'Tis not my looks, but my deeds that torture me. MENELAUS How terribly thy tearless eyeballs glare! ORESTES My body is vanished and gone, though my name hath not yet deserted me. MENELAUS Unsightly apparition, so different from what I expected! ORESTES In me behold a man that hath slain his hapless mother. MENELAUS I have heard all; be chary of thy tale of woe. ORESTES I will; but the deity is lavish of woe to me. MENELAUS What ails thee?英文原著 · 《ORESTES》
the garden was conducting me through its paths. I was gathering the flowers and enjoying their fragrance, when this sister, who had been walking by my side, called my attention to some unsightly briers that were impeding her way. There she was mourning and grieving. She was not walking in the pathway, following the guide, but was walking among the briers and thorns. "Oh," she mourned, "is it not a pity that this beautiful garden is spoiled with thorns?" Then the guide said, "Let the thorns alone, for they will only wound you. Gather the roses, the lilies, and the pinks."英文原著 · 《Steps to Christ》