As the huge unshapen monster glared in on pale Frankenstein. From Wordnik.com. [City and Village] Reference
Just as in other cases the substratum must be formless and unshapen-for thus the. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heavens] Reference
Nothing was discernible, save a flight of rough unshapen steps which sank into the yawning Gulph and were soon lost in darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
For, indeed, they are unacquainted with the use of mortar and tiles; and for every purpose employ rude unshapen timber, fashioned with no regard to pleasing the eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
They passed on, Gollum in front and the hobbits now side by side, up the long ravine between the piers and columns of torn and weathered rock, standing like huge unshapen statues on either hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Irene Vanbrugh handled Mr. Jones's unshapen material. From Wordnik.com. [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference
And told of the World of Aforetime, unshapen, void of lands. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
Such a desire was the mother of monstrous and unshapen things. From Wordnik.com. [The Creators A Comedy] Reference
He had only his unshapen dreams that battled with him in dark places, the unborn that struggled in his brain for birth. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference
It cannot be denied that he leaves imbedded in his fabric lumps of unshapen material, which mar the symmetry of his art. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
Leaden black globular accumulations covered one-third of the sky vault, great unshapen masses overhead rendering the air heavy. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
This was my dictionary of music, which my scattered, mutilated, and unshapen materials made it necessary to rewrite almost entirely. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of J J Rousseau]
The two poor things clung closer to each other, both trembling, the one at an unshapen fear, the other at the image of a terrible certainty. From Wordnik.com. [VII. The Golden Gates Are Passed. Book IISchool-Time] Reference
The two poor things clung closer to each other, both trembling, -- the one at an unshapen fear, the other at the image of a terrible certainty. From Wordnik.com. [The Mill on the Floss] Reference
Light unspeakable, and carrieth his doubt with him unto Paradise, therefore the shut flower of his heart openeth not, therefore is he unshapen as a child in the womb. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom of the East Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin] Reference
Under the divine inspection: My substance, when hid in the womb, nay, when it was yet but in fieri -- in the forming, an unshapen embryo, was not hidden from thee; thy eyes did see my substance. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
In point of size and weight his thirty-fourth day found him pretty much on a level with a fully grown fox-terrier; though he was, of course, still quite unshapen, and somewhat insecure upon his thick, gristly legs. From Wordnik.com. [Jan A Dog and a Romance] Reference
By an outstanding double expression (cf. for similar combinations 18: 27 and 21: 23) an almost onomatopoeic effect is secured to describe the utmost of an unformed and unshapen mass: "waste and void" -- tohu wavohu. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
The clank of the hammer, the whistle of steamboats, the rattling of carts, heaps of lumber and of bricks, excavations and gratings, short corners and rough unshapen walks, will usurp the quiet and the regularity of the place. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota and Dacotah] Reference
Within one hundred yards of the bank of the river, and there alone, were seen the only timber trees we had met with in the country; if huge unshapen eucalypti, which would not afford a straight plank ten feet long, may be so denominated. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference
The sculptor takes a rough, unshapen mass of marble, and with strong, rapid strokes of mallet and chisel quickly brings into view the rude outline of his design; but after the outline appears then come hours, days, perhaps even years, of patient, minute labor. From Wordnik.com. [How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune] Reference
Christianity, rising with the zeal and strength of youth out of the ruins of the Empire, and feudalism by the need of self-preservation imposing a form upon the unshapen associations of the barbarians, had between them compacted the foundations and reared the fabric of mediæval life. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre] Reference
From some unshapen log. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 93] Reference
Ills unshapen float anigh. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I.] Reference
Wise of the great unshapen age. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1911-12] Reference
Vanishing, stare unshapen glooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
On me, that halt and am unshapen thus?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedy of King Richard III] Reference
To that unshapen time to come, when She. From Wordnik.com. [The Unknown Eros] Reference
And the blind herbs, and the unshapen dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows] Reference
"nifier, like small specks of red unshapen matter, thinly. From Wordnik.com. [An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary ; together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India company's service, to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ; taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Sir Erasmus Gower, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy] Reference
Developing the unshapen man. From Wordnik.com. [The Heptalogia] Reference
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