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Sentences starting with unwholesome
- Unwholesome fish-belly skin. [5]
More example sentences with the word unwholesome in them
- Yet portions of this unwholesome food which we call medicine, we have reason to believe, are assimilated; thus, castor-oil appears to be partially digested by infants, so that they require large doses to affect them medicinally. [3]
- Then she watched the effect, and it did not satisfy her; so she made us wait longer, and kept upbraiding herself for giving us the unwholesome cake. [5]
- Toward the end the darkness lifted from Sally's ruined mind for a moment, and he said: "Vast wealth, acquired by sudden and unwholesome means, is a snare. [5]
- I should think that any formula that would divert the mind from unwholesome channels and force it into healthy ones would answer every purpose with some people, though not with all. [5]
- Ferens, a disfranchised solicitor, who knew his story, spread the unwholesome truth about him among the ship's people, and he received attentions at once offensive and flattering. [11]
- Does he ever see her beauty at all, or doesn't he simply view her professionally, and comment upon her unwholesome condition all to himself? [5]
- Strictly speaking, every poison consisting of assimilable elements may be considered as unwholesome food. [3]
- Still more, if one of our ancestors built on an unsafe or an unwholesome foundation, the best thing we can do is to leave it and persuade others to leave it if we can. [6]
- The hotel at New Glasgow we can commend as one of the most unwholesome in the Province; but it is unnecessary to emphasize its condition, for if the traveler is in search of dirty hotels, he will scarcely go amiss anywhere in these regions. [4]
- While they were in progress, Mr Quilp withdrew to the adjoining room, and, turning back his coat-collar, proceeded to smear his countenance with a damp towel of very unwholesome appearance, which made his complexion rather more cloudy than it was before. [12]
- Plutarch says, the ibis destroys poisonous reptiles, and that priests draw the water for their purifications where the Ibis has drunk, as it will never touch unwholesome water. [10]
- Pound, of whom I had a wholesome fear, or perhaps an unwholesome one. [9]
- The unwholesome three had shared his moral lapse with wide-open eyes, and were in no sense victims of his; but, disregarding their responsibility, they had, from sheer jealousy, wrecked his past, and, to their own surprise, had wrecked themselves as well. [11]
- At first he had drifted from one town to another, dissolute and reckless, apparently unable to settle down, or to forget the unwholesome three. [11]
- She has suffered great sorrow and on that her soul lives; but this is evil nourishment, unwholesome and bad for her. [10]
- There is a great deal in medical books which it is very unbecoming to bring before the general public,--a great deal to repel, to disgust, to alarm, to excite unwholesome curiosity. [6]
- As to the first, it may be helpful to order, method, discipline, and it may be an indulgence of spleen, whims, and unwholesome criticism and conceit. [4]
- Nor anything unwholesome, either, unless there's lobster-salad or prawns, which I'm told are not good for digestion. [12]
- Increased number of cases for the doctor followed want of sufficient food and the eating of cheap, unwholesome food. [4]
- Shelley moved to Bracknell, July 27th (this is still 1813) purposely to be near this unwholesome prairie-dogs' nest. [5]
- It extinguished the blue of the sky--made it pallid and unwholesome, whitey and washed-out. [5]
- Even its eggs are worth from a dollar to a dollar and a half apiece, and yet are so unwholesome that the city physician seldom or never orders them for the workhouse. [5]
- Where dark complexions are massed, they make the whites look bleached-out, unwholesome, and sometimes frankly ghastly. [5]
- The house stood--if anything so old and feeble could be said to stand--on a piece of waste ground, blighted with the unwholesome smoke of factory chimneys, and echoing the clank of iron wheels and rush of troubled water. [12]
- There is always an unnatural calmness about its nap, and an unwholesome gloss, suggestive of a wet brush. [6]
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