A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old - fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed — destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers] Reference

She was dancing with her husband -- a pitiful spectacle, for the lawyer must be pushed through the dance as he were a doll, with monstrous ungracefulness, and no sense of the time of the music, his thin legs quarrelling with each other, his neighbours all confused by his inexpert gyrations, and yet himself with a smirk of satisfaction on his sweating countenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

And this to eyes trained to eschew ungracefulness and that abhorred a vacuum as much as nature is said to do!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

The fact that he was tall profited him nothing, for it merely emphasised the extreme ungracefulness of his figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

And his manner of speaking, and the ungracefulness of his gesticulation, are greatly aggravated by his strong Scotch accent.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Choice of Books] Reference

SOCRATES: Then voluntary ungracefulness comes from excellence of the bodily frame, and involuntary from the defect of the bodily frame?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lesser Hippias] Reference

Plain and rough nature, left to itself, is much better than an artificial ungracefulness, and such study’d ways of being illfashion’d.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70] Reference

He descanted with some eloquence upon the wickedness of lacing, the ungracefulness of artificial forms and the beauty of her own wholly natural grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Old Kentucky] Reference

They were too habituated to the ungracefulness of an unlettered pride, to bow themselves to address conciliating language either to the people or their foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference

Every ungracefulness must have shown its full deformity, with no possibility of disguise; every angle must have been aggravated, and every untoward movement made doubly fatal.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Red Wallflower] Reference

We ought, however, rather to envy the deep seriousness which could not be moved from dwelling on the real power of the scene by any ungracefulness or familiarity of circumstance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel] Reference

Mr. Dillwyn could see by her manner, he thought, that she would be glad if Mr.. Wishart would come in and take him off her hands; but there was no awkwardness or ungracefulness or unreadiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody] Reference

Nevertheless so clumsy a beau, that thou seemest to me to owe thyself a double spite, making thy ungracefulness appear the more ungraceful, by thy remarkable tawdriness, when thou art out of mourning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7] Reference

Every one’s natural genius should be carry’d as far as it could; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain; and what is so plaister’d on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness of constraint and affectation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70] Reference

A cheerful wood fire blazed in the hearth, a little at one side of which an old-fashioned table, which shone in the fire-light like burnished gold, was awaiting the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than compensated by their comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1] Reference

A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an oldfashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed -- destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers — Volume 2] Reference

A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old-fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed -- destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers, Volume II] Reference

Her fine shape, her well-rounded form, the regularity and yet expressiveness of her features, her light-brown braided hair, her long neck -- she ran them all over in her mind, and calculated on their pictorial effects, and if she had only known that her beauty showed to more advantage when she was still than when she was in motion, because in the last case certain ungracefulness continually escaped her, she would have entered even more eagerly than she did into this natural picture-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference