Like bad news

Usage examples of unwelcome.

She knew, that when he now took up the Baronetage, it was to drive the heavy bills of his tradespeople, and the unwelcome hints of Mr Shepherd, his agent, from his thoughts.

She knew, that when he now took up the Baronetage, it was to drive the heavy bills of his tradespeople, and the unwelcome hints of Mr.

She smiled faintly as she touched the waxy blooms, and then continued about her tasks, still feeling uneasy although she was no longer sure whether that was because of the attempted robbery or Lord Am brose s unwelcome visit.

To arrive unwelcomed at an inn--to wander through unknown streets and cities, without any stimulus of interest or curiosity--to traverse vast tracts of country, useless to others, a burthen to himself--alone, this would have been intolerable.

She was in the house of Senyor Ramon Carlos Castillo, an unwilling, and unwelcome, guest.

But she seemed to invite him to hold her hand, brushing close as they walked and when he did slip his hand around hers, her fingers were chaste and cold and listless, making him ask himself was this the way Stationer Family girls were, or had he just made a wrong, unwelcome move?

If he simply called Novak Tower and asked for Administrator Ford, he not only would not be put through to him but his call would be switched to the Department of Public Safety for some unwelcome inquiries, sure as taxes.

It predated all else, its severe architecture throughly alien and strangely unwelcoming.

There was no one in the grove to whom she was more than renegade Mother, rebel unloved and uncherished, ready victim, unwelcome intimate.

There was novelty in the scheme, and as, with such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless, a little change was not unwelcome for its own sake.

Under the circumstances, it was also natural that Billy should object to this unexpected and unwelcome guest, and that the vague, unperformed duty should suddenly flash into his mind clear, and well-defined, and urgent.

Case, so far Americanized the Episcopal Church as to make sure that no unwelcome minister was ever to be forced from outside on one of its parishes.

That evening, when Long Quiet reached the Comanche camp he received an unwelcome reminder of the discord between the Comanches and the White-eyes.

As to poor Jones, the only relief to his distempered mind was an unwelcome piece of news, which, as it opens a scene of different nature from those in which the reader hath lately been conversant, will be communicated to him in the next chapter.

Unknown to them both, however, their seemingly intimate tete-a-tete was being watched by his cousin Simon, who had come upon them as he strolled alone through the gardens, having abandoned his unwelcome companion, Caroline Kenilworth, to another gentleman whom she was hoping to fascinate.