I find writers whose writing is lovely in unlovely settings so interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Small Town Dreaming « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

The unlovely bread-and-butter business pressed upon her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

But it is at best an unlovely and cramping form of existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Indians] Reference

She speaks bitterly, and turns from him with an unlovely laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

To such a degree does love transform the most unlovely objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

But Aunt Jemima's love was wont to show itself in unlovely ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

She was very bony and was flat-chested and unlovely in every way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

But some men cannot bear to look upon their own life, so unlovely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

As Nan approached she saw something else about this unlovely woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

The mother was an unlovely object in her abject sorrow and despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

He went on to say that the world was bleak and unlovely till I came to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference

Jali, in the rather unlovely Carlton hotel is not just good for Blackpool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Restaurant review: Jali] Reference

She has already made herself as unlovely in outward aspect as can well be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference

Brighton is a brick and iron built town, exceedingly unlovely, but habitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

They even have names, these unlovely parallelograms: one is Chatsworth Avenue, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

The whole defies the audience to do more than gawp at the unlovely passing parade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival] Reference

This word of the Lord puts before me the unlovely lineaments of the false shepherds.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

When you are beautiful, you adorn my street; when you are unlovely, I-- pass you by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Rosemary's blue eyes blazed with quick anger and an unlovely look came into her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosemary] Reference

By all the canons of art the long straight lines of the Hradšany should be unlovely.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference

Hag-ridden by those unlovely twins, jealousy and hate, she looked for the instant prematurely old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

Gwen Harcourt had a most unlovely disposition and no one could guess what she at any time might do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Polly's Playmates] Reference

Japanese feature, so rarely seen amongst the common people, and considered so unlovely by Europeans.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

"It is a pity that such love as yours should have no better return," says he, with an unlovely laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

"That you, Horry dear?" she said, as, with a gloomy, hopeless face he looked in upon the unlovely sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

He was straight, but unlovely -- nothing but two black lines and three dots, cased in a filament of jelly.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

It may not be; the unlovely pool locks them in her gloomy wave, and Styx pours her ninefold barrier between.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

This is, I think, untrue, and unjust to our present civilization, unlovely as it undoubtedly is in many ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

When an English player finds work with a foreign club some unlovely national traits often become horribly public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swede Rules Britannia] Reference

They are simply the most depressing, unlovely resorts of sea-front and villas that one will see in a round of all the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

The town is charmingly situated, but it is unlovely, and, for the tourist, is only a stepping-stone to somewhere else.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

I cannot fail, however unwilling, to see much that is dry and stiff and unlovely in the style of Christianity around me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

The absence of trees makes the country bleak and desolate, and I cannot help thinking the unlovely surroundings affect us all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

Some unlovely compromises were the price of peace in Northern Ireland, and the United States was a leading actor in the process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mad As Hell] Reference

State and a diplomatist of no mean order, but it was hard to believe this in the royal presence, unwashed and unlovely as it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference

Don Quixote's was but a thing of the imagination, and Daudet's, in Provence, was but a dismantled, unlovely, and unromantic ruin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

The grim, unlovely little hotel at Land's End sheltered us the night before the commencement of our journey north, and the Longships.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

They were rough looking, unlovely fellows, and the growl of their voices did not impress Ruth as being of a quality to inspire confidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference

He walked to the foot of the sofa, and looked long at the huge, unlovely bulk, once the admired form of his handsome wife, that lay there.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference