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Had she been a sylph the prospect would have been most untempting, but a two-hundred-and-fifty-pounder!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference

Herbert, in the dingy solitude of his untempting chambers, might despair and look upon life and its aims as a hopeless enigma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference

Now that his heart is subdued and slow he still looks for pearls, and tempts coy Fortune with dramatic sincerity and most untempting things.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

Salad has come to form part of even the simplest dinners; and certainly cold meat and salad and excellent bread and butter make a meal by no means to be despised even by an epicure, while cold meat and bread and butter sound very untempting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Cookery] Reference

The agitation of the day, followed by the somewhat unsuitable gayety of the evening, had thrown me into such a state of mental and bodily fatigue, that I had scarcely laid my side on my bed, untempting as it was, when I dropped into a heavy slumber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference

It would be a fit abode, she thought, for some recluse, determined to eschew the society of his fellow-men; here he could dwell, solitary and apart, surrounded on three sides by the grey, dividing sea, and protected on the fourth by the steep untempting climb that lay betwixt the town and the lonely house on the cliff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Then, come, -- if a board so untempting hath power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

Fortune with dramatic sincerity and most untempting things.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

Over this untempting scene a dim, waning lamp, threw its blue glare, only rendering the place more hideous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference

In the chilly dusk air, it looked most untempting, especially during that state of mind under which I was labouring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference

It was a long, low, coral-formed island, with a white beach -- a very untempting spot for a habitation in that burning climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference

But when she went down into the kitchen at twelve o'clock she found him seated at a very untempting meal, with Sam the footboy and Mrs Symes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century] Reference

And she tendered him a battered flower, leering at him from beneath her draggled, dusty bonnet as she put forth her untempting hand for the money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Mackenzie] Reference

The absence of hot coffee and other stimulants did not affect my appetite, nor the enjoyment of the morning and evening repasts, cold and untempting as they were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Months in a Sneak-Box] Reference

Miss Satterly hastily drew her mouth into a thin, untempting, red streak, for she had not seen Weary Davidson, on an average, twice a week for the last four months for nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories] Reference

Our friends observed fruits, raspberries, strawberries, and peaches, though of an untempting appearance and very dear; and also cakes of various forms, bread, beer, and of course quass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar] Reference

English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood begins to flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor and untempting effect of my visage.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre] Reference

But this detestable mother of a lovable daughter and an untempting granddaughter is destined to become still more detestable in the eyes of the Julius Bradshaws before she exhausts her topic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

Instead, he would smile at us encouragingly, or make some pitiful attempt at a jest, and I think it was chiefly to please us that he choked down a few spoonfuls of the very untempting stew we forced on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorimer of the Northwest] Reference

Meanwhile the man killed and boiled a fowl, and boiled some sweet potato, and when these untempting viands, and a calabash of poi were put before us, we sat round them and eat; I with my knife, the others with their fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

She suggested an omelette; but a natural generalisation from all I had so far seen drew an untempting picture of the probable state of the frying-pan, and I declined to face the idea until I was convinced there was nothing else to be had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland] Reference

"Rest will not be unwelcome; and food, if unrestricted to goats 'cheese, and kid-flesh, -- luxuries new to my palate, -- will not be untempting; but neither food nor rest can I take, noble Harold, before I excuse myself, as a foreigner, for thus somewhat infringing your laws by which we are banished, and acknowledging gratefully the courteous behavior I have met from thy countrymen notwithstanding.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

Either in letters or in politics, how utterly poor, barren, and untempting, is every path that points upward to the mockery of public eminence, when looked upon by a soul that has any real elements of wise or noble; unless we have an impulse within, which mortification chills not -- a reward without, which selfish defeat does not destroy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godolphin, Complete] Reference

It was at the table d'hôte at Vevay, upon coming down to that lengthy and untempting repast, chiefly composed of aged goats and stringy hens, which the inventive Swiss waiter exalts, with the effort of a soaring imagination, into "Chamois," and "Salmi de Poulet," that Captain and Mrs. Kynaston, who had scarcely recovered from a passage of arms in the seclusion of their bed-chamber, suddenly descried a familiar face amongst the long array of uncongenial people ranged down either side of the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference

(Remarkably untempting Cakes!).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game of Logic] Reference

Nevertheless, that dark hole was untempting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference

"Yes, Mas 'Don; and it's untempting, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens] Reference

This dull little town, built at the beginning of the twelfth century out of the then plentifully scattered fragments of Babylon, has nothing to offer to the modern traveller save various annoyances in the shape of excessive heat, dust, or rather fine blown sand, -- dirt, flies, bad food, and general discomfort; and finding the aspect of the place not only untempting, but positively depressing, Alwyn left his surplus luggage at a small and unpretentious hostelry kept by a Frenchman, who catered specially for archaeological tourists and explorers, and after an hour's rest, set out alone and on foot for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardath] Reference