uncostly
Example Sentences
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Nothing is so beautiful as a rose diamond with the light playing through it, except that uncostly thing which is just like it—wavy sea-water with the sunlight playing through it and striking a white-sand bottom.
From Following the Equator, Part 7 by Mark Twain
The new air does but make old decadences seem more stale; the young soil does but set into fresh conditions the ready-made, the uncostly, the refuse feeling of a race decivilizing.
From Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
As for a mere "change of scene," that's quite uncostly.'
From The Return by Walter De la Mare
Its space was small, and doubtless for this reason a few brilliant draperies and effective though uncostly embellishments had made its interior bloom and glow picturesquely enough.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
The new air does but make old decadences seem more stale; the young soil does but set into fresh conditions the ready-made, the uncostly, the refuse feeling of a race decivilising.
From The Rhythm of Life by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
