Though the Greeks are an oppressed nation, yet, as Sir William Gell testifies, they cannot be called uncleanly in their habits. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827] Reference
Germans and Turks were extremely uncleanly in their habits. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
Once it was unseemly, if not uncleanly, to perspire freely. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
Very young men wear their hair unusually long, but this fad is uncleanly. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
They were clothed in uncleanly rags, many without caps, and most without shoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
The things here were a foul, uncleanly folk, and the world is well rid of them. From Wordnik.com. [Magic's Price]
It is also a fact that uncleanly people are more liable to take cold than those who bathe often. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The houses smelled strangely, though not uncleanly, of cooking and animals and of people who worked. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Her back glistened with perspiration, and her coarse, fuzzy, uncleanly hair ceased in tufts on her neck. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
For this is OUR height and our home: too high and steep do we here dwell for all uncleanly ones and their thirst. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
Blood poisoning which so often follows the careless poulticing, as well as the uncleanly opening of boils, can all be avoided. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Historical writers tell us that the very dogs are excluded from the whole Acropolis, because of their gross, uncleanly habits. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
The people of the town take a pride in its natural beauty; and there are no filthy alleys, no squalid poverty, or uncleanly hovels. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
To her astonishment this draggled, uncleanly object became violently affected by the tender, motherly way in which she was addressed. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
Now it might seem that such neglect, on the part of the woman, to immediately remove the surplus semen, was uncleanly and unsanitary. From Wordnik.com. [Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise] Reference
To wear garments that are daily being soiled by perspiration and other cutaneous excretions, is a most uncleanly and unhealthful practice. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Theaters, churches, and assembly rooms could be built so as to drill audiences in habits of health instead of fixing habits of uncleanly breathing. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
Usually they are an uncleanly lot of people, full of good intentions, but their intentions though taken often, seldom operate as an antidote to foulness. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
Nor are they uncleanly, as is often supposed, but they keep their kitchen in such mild disorder that things really appear much worse than they really are. From Wordnik.com. [The Khaki Kook Book A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan] Reference
The children come, oftentimes, from homes that are close, ill - ventilated, and uncleanly; and frequently from sick rooms, bringing in their clothing the germs of disease. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
They are very uncleanly -- these people -- in face, in person and dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
Bad food, uncleanly habits, bad air, all contributed to the spread of leprosy. From Wordnik.com. [The History of London] Reference
And it was draggled, begrimed, uncleanly, as never were the doves of Aphrodite. From Wordnik.com. [The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance] Reference
One of the party flung him a copper coin and he caught it dexterously in his uncleanly hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Black] Reference
Night-caps are most unwholesome and uncleanly contrivances, and should be discarded altogether. From Wordnik.com. [How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies] Reference
Here, if you like, was a sanitary parable, addressed by our uncleanly forefathers to their own neglect. From Wordnik.com. [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference
The women got tired of seeing him about, because of his uncleanly habits of spitting and his tiresome stories. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Folks] Reference
However, thinking that the kitchen of a french vessel might, if possible, be more uncleanly than the kitchen of. From Wordnik.com. [The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.] Reference
The women got tired of seeing him about, because of his uncleanly habits of spitting, and his tiresome stories. From Wordnik.com. [Other Main-Travelled Roads] Reference
Ojibways, and had unlearnt his first disgust of their uncleanly habits, though as yet he could not imitate them. From Wordnik.com. [Fort Amity] Reference
She liked to feel him and to gaze at him, and to smell that faint, uncleanly odour of sweat that hung in his clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
His eyes glittered with unnatural brilliance, his hands, discoloured and uncleanly, moved nervously and were never still. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Rust] Reference
Dr. Lewis, the president of the Section, related a number of cases where the use of uncleanly instruments had resulted disastrously. From Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
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