Unwholesome

Examples

• You need not be afraid of unwholesome preserves here. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Rome is very unwholesome. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The house was very close, and had an unwholesome smell. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There is a strange unwholesome smell upon the room, like mildewed corduroys, sweet apples wanting air, and rotten books. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The pale moonlight streamed through a shattered fanlight over the door; the air was unwholesome and chilly, like that of a vault. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Here was unwholesome talk! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If it were at all unwholesome he certainly should not recommend it, but he did not think there was the slightest fear. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwholesome hand to spoil and corrupt would be a very wide question. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The unwholesome boy, who seemed to me to be going into a decline, took his meals out of the house. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In trades which are known to be very unwholesome, the wages of labour are always remarkably high. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The plague is in London; the air of England is tainted, and her sons and daughters strew the unwholesome earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The third, a Jeune Mère, hanging disconsolate over a clayey and puffy baby with a face like an unwholesome full moon. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They kept him out in the unwholesome mists at night, and ordered him back into his harness in the day. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A disappointed mind he had, but a mind too firm and healthy for such unwholesome air. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The dews at this hour is unwholesome for females, observed Joe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Uriah's cheeks lost colour, and an unwholesome paleness, still faintly tinged by his pervading red, overspread them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The island of Jamaica was an unwholesome desert, little inhabited, and less cultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I tell Madame it is unwholesome now. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They have enabled Batavia to surmount the additional disadvantage of perhaps the most unwholesome climate in the world. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He is just of the age for Rosa, the fond parent thought, and glanced towards that dear child, an unwholesome little miss of seven years of age. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• O, for some medicinal vial to purge unwholesome nature, and bring back the earth to its accustomed health! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Thanks to you, sir--great change--Majesty's Fleet--unwholesome place-- very,' said Jingle, shaking his head. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The room smelt close and unwholesome; the walls were dirt-discoloured; and the ceiling blackened. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The house is overexcited and unwholesome, I thought. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The place had that peculiar sickening, unwholesome smell, compounded of mingled damp, dirt and decay, which one often notices in close old houses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• No outward air that may come in to you is so unwholesome as the unchanged air, often breathed, of a close chamber. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

Typist: Maura