Forbidding

Examples

• Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I approached and knocked at the door, which was instantly opened by a tall, gaunt woman with a harsh, forbidding face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no active enemies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is, if you please, like the crops of a rude and forbidding soil--a coarse, distorted thing though living. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Well; but is it true that they have been passing a law forbidding people to give meat and drink to those poor colored folks that come along? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And then you wonder that such a charming moth could come from such a forbidding shell as that. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And the forbidding principle is derived from reason, and that which bids and attracts proceeds from passion and disease? Plato. The Republic.
• Mrs. Peniston's icy drawing-room grate shone with a forbidding lustre: the fire, like the lamps, was never lit except when there was company. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• No vegetation softened the nakedness of these rugged rocks, which, streaked with green, yellow, and red, presented a singularly forbidding appearance. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Lord forbidding is pious, but not to the purpose, returned Mr. Jaggers. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The one point that was forbidding about this reddleman was his colour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He then saw a slouching man of forbidding appearance standing in the midst of the school, with a bundle under his arm; and saw that it was Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A restaurant would not pay in such a stony, forbidding, desolate place. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At that time there was an imperial edict forbidding foreign travel, so that Yuan Chwang started from Singan like an escaping criminal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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