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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 Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

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 Twain, Mark

The ring, uncostly as it was, took nearly all Guy's spare money, and he decided to buy a book for her, because in Oxford bookshops he still had accounts running.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

They are uncostly, plain, and humble, showing the unostentatious mind of the great man.

From Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic by Moore, George

It is this uncostly gentleness of bearing which gives a winning impression of the whole people, whatever selfishness or real discourtesy lie beneath it.

From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean




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