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Usage examples of graceless.

A nursery screamer where dialectics ruled: Mannerless, graceless, laughterless, unlike Herself in all, yet with such power to strike, That she the various features she could scan Dared not to sum, though seeing: and befooled By power which beamed omnipotent, she bowed, Subservient as roused echo round his guns.

She was blond very much as Coke Rymer was blond, but she was thin and graceless, had no cruelty in her.

It was Saturday, universal shopping-day in the farmland, and a ramshackle line of rustic vehicles--buggies, democrats, sulkies, lumber wagons--with graceless plough horses slumbering in the thills, stretched in ragged alignment down the curb.

From a nail in one corner of the room hung a red and white zarape, a bridle, one of those graceless bits which would wrench the mouth of the wildest horse to agony, and a sombrero.

Most of the Architect temples on Urradeth are similarly squat and graceless, and Danlo thought that was too bad because organic stone can be the loveliest of materials to work.

The animals are chipped, the paint is peeling, the giraffe and elephant are missing hooves and tusks, and the carousel is musicless and graceless.

Third, Bruno himself stuck in said inn for the rest of the day while his passenger goes off with a young Austrian witness to pursue his investigations -finally cracks up under the dour cloud of graceless silence and the glares of loathing lasered his way by the locals, and finally freaks out completely at a cafe where he and Zen stop on the way back down the mountain, screaming action ably offensive abuse at the stocky, stolid Teutonic blockheads who have made his life and those of all his fellow recruits a misery for months on end.

Notebook, however, set off downhill on firm going at a graceless rush, roller-coastered over the most distant hurdles, and only began to lose interest when he hit the sharply rising ground on the way back.

He skis, they say, with the graceless desperation of a man about to crash, fighting to keep his balance.

John Bunyan read neither Plato nor Aristotle, but he read David and Paul till he was the chief of sinners, and till he was first the Graceless and then the Christian of his own next-to-the-Bible book.

There was a certain graceless brusquerie in the movement which attracted Miss Hofmann's attention.

The creature spun, beating its wings languorously, its body careering across the sky with the chaotic graceless speed of a butterfly.

Jo thought a moment as the three of them walked down the dimly lit street, past house trailers and the dull, graceless cement block office buildings.

Then the good doctor comes across Arnold Armstrong, who was a graceless scamp--de mortuis--what's the rest of it?

Death for dope fiends, death for sex queens (I mean fiends) death for the psychopath who offends the cowed and graceless flesh with broken animal innocence of lithe move- ment.