He is untainted by the ungenial formality of our German professors.
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The weather continued rainy and ungenial for some days after his return.
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Bacon had sown the good seed in a sluggish soil and an ungenial season.
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The house was in a most, as Mother had deemed it, ungenial location, abutting the tracks.
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But it proved a wet, ungenial summer, and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.
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I hope she is now in stronger health, but the weather lately has not been favorable, so cold and ungenial.
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The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring.
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But the ungenial man was an excellent conductor who was generous enough every second or third week to invite the big maestros of the world.
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Were our friend now to stalk in among them, with that wide-open stare, at once wild and stolid, his ungenial presence would be apt to change their cheer.
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They spent their time writing, boating on the lake, and talking late into the night.Sunstein, p. 118. "It proved a wet, ungenial summer", Mary Shelley remembered in 1831, "and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house".Paragraph 6, Introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein; Sunstein, 118.The violent storms were, it is now known, a repercussion of the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia the year before (Sunstein, 118).
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In June 1816, "incessant rainfall" during that "wet, ungenial summer" forced Mary Shelley,Marshall, Alan (2020) Did a volcanic eruption in Indonesia really lead to the creation of Frankenstein? The Conversation, January 24th issue. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and John William Polidori, and their friends to stay indoors at Villa Diodati overlooking Lake Geneva for much of their Swiss holiday.Why Vampires Never Die by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro The New York Times July 30, 2009.
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He was knighted in 1596, when he was appointed as Ambassador to France during the reign of King Henry IV of France. "I always knew him," wrote Chamberlain soon after Mildmay had settled in Paris, "to be paucorum hominum, yet he hath ever showed himself an honourable fast frend where he found vertue and desert"., cites: Chamberlain, Letters, p. 2. The French King complained of Mildmay's ungenial manner and of the coldness with which he listened to the praises of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
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In May 1816, Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, and their second child travelled to Geneva with Claire Clairmont. They spent the summer months with the Romantic poet Lord Byron, but, as Mary Shelley later wrote of the year without a summer, "[i]t proved a wet, ungenial summer and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house". The group spent their time writing, boating on Lake Geneva, and talking late into the night. Sitting around a log fire at Byron's villa, the company also amused themselves by reading German ghost stories, prompting Byron to suggest they each write their own supernatural tale.
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It is curious in all > its history to observe, that poetry is a flower which is born and flourishes > on what would seem its most ungenial soil. Certainly our English verse is > the last accomplishment we should have expected in the youthful Hindoo. > Kasiprasad Ghosh is of high Braminical extraction, and of independent > fortune. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the Anglo-Indian College, > where he made rapid progress. He soon shewed a marked predilection for our > literature; indeed, he himself says, “I have composed many songs in > Bengalee, but the greater portion of my writing is in English, — and, > indeed, have always found it easiest to express my sentiments in that > language.” An essay that he wrote at a very early period, on Mr. Mills’ > History of India, attracted much attention ; and, since then, he has > published a volume of poems called “The Shair,” the Indian word for > Minstrel.
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