UNHEALTHFULNESS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Unhealthfulness

"Unhealthfulness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Was she making game of him? Or did there lurk in her the insidious unhealthfulness of unwomanliness? Or was it merely a case of blank, staring, sentimental, ...

— Adventure • Jack London

... untutored, un-Christianized young man had been placed in their care—was it too late to redeem the past? No effort was left untried, though exercised with the greatest delicacy to bring the young heathen's mind to a proper state of its former unhealthfulness, of ...

— Hubert's Wife - A Story for You • Minnie Mary Lee

... oily smoke, and sickening odours. In defiance, however, of all the known laws of hygiene, this vitiated atmosphere seems to be healthful; or, to state the case negatively, there is no evidence to prove its unhealthfulness. The Korak women, who spend almost the whole of their time in these pologs, live generally to an advanced age, and except a noticeable tendency to angular outlines, and skinniness, there is nothing to distinguish them physically from the old women of other countries. It was not without ...

— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan