What is "unpolished"

Usage examples of "unpolished".

Still preserving the prejudices, after they had lost the virtues, of their ancestors, they affected to despise the unpolished manners of the Roman conquerors, whilst they were compelled to respect their superior wisdom and power.

From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.

After shutting my eyes involuntarily, I opened them, and saw that this luminous agent came from a half globe, unpolished, placed in the roof of the cabin.

I found an artless and attractive female, unpolished and undepraved by much intercourse with mankind.

She summoned up the memory of Baxter as he sat across from her attired in a rumpled blue coat, unpleated linen shirt, and the conservative breeches and unpolished boots.

Her hands, with their short and unpolished nails, trembled on the keyboard.

He was large, gruff, clumsy, and unpolished, but he was learning courtly ways fast.

The bare landscape left behind was as dull and gray as an unpolished stone.

It was etched with runes but unpolished, with two small horns at the wrist edge.

Cradled in the hollowed ingot were chunks of large emeralds and amethysts and stones that she believed to be unpolished diamonds.

The diamonds were unpolished, but, Michael, everything was more the size of rocks than stones.

In so many ways he felt limited and unpolished, but he was learning fast.

As unpolished and unlettered as you were that night, you exhibited a presence no ordinary young man could.

The floor was of bare wooden boards, dark stained, unpolished and clean.

The brisk footsteps on the unpolished wooden floor slowed and became irregular and uncertain as my new visitor saw some of the stuff on the shelves.