"Unkindly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Amadis cycle and in romances like Arthur of Little Britain all this undergoes a change—not by any means for the better. What has been unkindly, but not perhaps unjustly, called the "conjuror's supernatural" takes the place of the poet's variety. One of the personages of the Knight of the Sun is a "Bedevilled Faun," and it is really too much ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... normal-minded person could remember, or morbidly want to remember, the name unkindly given by Julius Caesar to Noyon, when he had besieged it. I can imagine even Charlemagne waving that cumbrous label impatiently aside, though Noyon mixed with Laon was his first capital. "Noviodunum Belgarum it may have been" (I dare say he said). ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... while, her eyes inscrutable and yet not unkindly. "It shall be as you will," she said at last. "Yes, ...
— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell
... chamber, very cool and lighted from above. In this chamber sat and stood three men: Vespasian, whom they knew by his strong, quiet face and grizzled hair; Titus, his son, "the darling of mankind," thin, active, and aesthetic-looking, with eyes that were not unkindly, a sarcastic smile playing about the corners of his mouth; and Domitian, his brother, who has already been described, a man taller than either of them by half a head, and more gorgeously attired. In front of the august three was a master of ceremonies clad in a dark-coloured robe, ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... landlords of Ireland, though extravagant, were not, as a class, unkindly, but their waste involved the land, and their absenteeism prevented any thoughts for the benefit of the country ever occurring ...
— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall
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