Outward grace is dust: An allusion to Lincoln's awkward and rather unkemptoutward appearance.
Papa, too, is less unkempt than common, seeming to have made a stout effort at old-time respectability.
Along the track, from out of the hills, ran four unkempt human figures.
He had read the service to the lounging, unkempt congregation, he had prayed over them, he had preached at them.
Here, burying himself in the woods, he skirted the unkempt farms, whose cottage lights, just beginning to burn, served him as signals to keep farther off.
The old man who came shuffling slowly down the path was gaunt with the leanness of want, and unkempt with the squalor of the hopelessly pauperized.
The camp was left to the girl and her unkempt guardian.
It was brilliant, with black eyes under a tangle of dark hair disordered but not unkempt like that of the females he had seen in Misery.
To himself, in a sudden flash of introspection, he seemed to be as unkempt within as without.
The green slope ran like a low railway embankment along the other side of the unkempt paddock between the trenches.
But the grass of those old paddocks grows unkemptlike a shock head of hair.
We seemed an unkempt crowd indeed by contrast with dwellers on this side of the Channel.
Anse studied his own unkempt if now clean reflection in the shaving mirror on the wall.
He shampooed his unkempt head vigorously and allowed himself to forget all worries, wallowing in the sheer joy of being really clean again.
He seemed somehow unkempt and distracted; he had forgotten the niceties of human intercourse, failing to ask the priest's blessing or even to salute him.
Popadya, and in the corner gazed dry and immobile the wolfish eyes of skulking little Nastya through a hedge of coarse and unkempt hair.
The girl sprang to his side, and kneeling down, searched with straining eyes in the bleached and bony face, fringed with matted hair and long unkempt gray beard, for some trace of the full and ruddy countenance which she remembered.
The wily one screwed his eyes up till his long brows mingled almost with his unkempt beard.
He was a shock-headed, unkempt individual, with a crooked back and a chin which seemed to have settled down on his chest from infancy.
His unkempt appearance and bare feet contrast with the neat dress of Mary.
Sometimes he seems a mere country boor, a rough, unkempt fellow, with coarse features and a heavy expression.
I looked out over a small wilderness of unkempt flower-beds; so much it was just possible to perceive.
It came through the windows on my right, beyond which lay the unkempt bushes which extended on that side to the wall of the grounds.
The pale-faced man shook his unkempt head sorrowfully, his lips pressed together, his eyes upon hers.
Dressed in an ill-made suit of coarse canvas, the beard he had grown gave him an unkempt and neglected appearance, the aspect of one in whom all hope was dead.
Her clothes were torn, her hair, which under the frequent use of the comb had begun to fall into such splendid glossy waves, once more hung over her forehead and cheeks in a shaggy, unkempt mass.
There was a patch of white plaster on one of his temples, but his round, jovial face beamed radiantly nevertheless out of its frame of unkempt fair hair that hung about his neck and throat in wildest confusion.
Unkempt faces thronged the dirty windows of farms that were mere shacks.
They were as unkempt and ragged as could be, but they always seemed cheerful and smiling, and the younger children were fat as little dumplings.
He was short, plump, with an extremely thick and unkempt beard.
Even unkempt as it was, the trees were tall and beautiful.
He was a man with unkempt hair and an expressionless face.
Little Jane, sallow of face, unkempt of hair, tattered of clothing and shivering in the cold twilight stood and watched the procession of pride as it passed and repassed before her delighted eyes.
He had seen him first standing behind the grating of his cell, a great unkempt hulk of a fellow with fiery red hair and brown eyes that roved restlessly, hungrily through the corridor.
As they drew near the Bedouins they discovered that the men who had seemed so picturesque at a distance wereunkempt and dirty, although none the less fierce on close inspection.
Instead of a flower-pied plain, he saw a series of unkemptback yards.
Philip began to suspect that he had entered a ghost town, and when his headlights darted across a dark intersection and picked up the overgrown grass and unkempt shrubbery of the village park, he was convinced that he had.
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