"Ungracious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you, mother, how nice!" the little boys exclaimed. Elsie's ungracious silence passed ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... politics, earnest in the question of good government and earnest and high-minded in the cause they are pursuing, even if I disagree with them, not in principle but in the application of it to the present situation. More than this I ought not to say and I hope you will not deem me ungracious in saying as much as I have said, but I came here at the invitation of your committee with the understanding as to what I might say and that I should not subscribe to all the principles that you are here to advocate. I congratulate you on coming to Washington, this most beautiful ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper
... It is an ungracious task to sift truth from fables. One man is displeased at seeing held up as a fiction a narrative which he has been accustomed to read with pleasure, and to take for truth, because it was elegantly written; and he requires an ...
— Mexico and its Religion • Robert A. Wilson
... of his ungracious tone and manner; she simply stopped him when he lifted his hat, ...
— The Haunted Hotel - A Mystery of Modern Venice • Wilkie Collins
... not refuse their request—it would have been ungracious of me, and it only meant a half-hour's run across the bay, for Salimu was exactly abreast of Samamea. So I said I would gladly sail them over in my boat at sunset, when ...
— The Call Of The South - 1908 • Louis Becke
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