"Unkept" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... awhile looking mutely down on him while he writhed in shame and went on incoherently babbling self-accusations mixed with pitiful attempts at explanation and palliation of his crime; then she seated herself and took off her hat, and her unkept masses of long brown hair tumbled ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... but leaves! The Spirit grieves Over a wasted life; O'er sins indulged while conscience slept, O'er vows and promises unkept; And reaps from years of strife— Nothing but ...
— True to his Colours - The Life that Wears Best • Theodore P. Wilson
... the house where Lem Wacker lived. It was characteristic of its proprietor—ricketty, disorderly, the yard unkept and grown over ...
— Bart Stirling's Road to Success - Or; The Young Express Agent • Allen Chapman
... in the city's empty thoroughfares. Flowers rioted in the unkept gardens. The cicada's frying note fried hotter than ever. Dazzling thunder-heads towered in the upper blue and stood like snow mountains of a vaster world. The very snake coiled in the shade. The spiced air gathered no freshness ...
— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable |
