Word: uncouthly
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...exception, are of men and things out of doors--by-products, perhaps, of vacation; one is told by a stagedriver, one by a guide, and one is a trapper's tale of long ago. The first two are "bear stories," and do not belie their kind. Rude men, of uncouth speech spiced with damns and tobacco juice; tell of beasts of fabulous dimensions and behavior, without fear of the "malleus naturfakerorum." Like other patterns for stories, this can be repeated to monotony. In "Autumn in the Forest," Mr. Edgell reproduces the sights he "photographed in his mind for future reference...
...fundamental fallacy of the captain's reasoning is the assumption that the life of action is necessarily dissociated from the life of contemplation, and vice versa. R. Altrocchi's "Western Fable" is impressive. "Old Doc. Barber" has a dramatic way of telling his story and his simple, if uncouth, language adds force to the moral. The point of the story, though not novel, is certainly unusual. It reminds one of Bret Harte, or to compare small things with great, of Goethe's "The God and the Rayadere." L. Simonson's "Death and the Young Man" is a fairly successful attempt...
...knows how many years, and he is always as interested in Harvard's success as the youngest and most enthusiastic undergraduate. When the fathers of those who are now in College were undergraduates, Old John was a familiar sight on Holmes field, with his shambling walk and uncouth salutations. The boldest would scarcely venture to guess at the age of this remarkable fruit seller. He is the same today as he was twenty years...
...Another uncouth monster is represented by a cast of the so-called Pareiasaurus, from the only specimen ever discovered, and now preserved in the British Museum...
...added to the list of his acquaintance. But one of the less known anecdotes of Johnson makes clear what, in spite of success and reputation and the pleasure of being dictator-or, to use Smollett's word, the great Cham of literature-remained a pervading quality of his great, uncouth, impeded man of genius. He asked an old beggar woman, who accosted him once in the street, who she was, and her reply that she was an old struggler gave the doctor keen delight. Johnson, too, so he rejoined, was an old struggler, and bestowed upon the beggar woman...