1. | I liked better some American detective stories which were traversed from time to time by unkempt fierce and beautiful girls. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
2. | More tormentors, Buck decided, for they were evil-looking creatures, ragged and unkempt and he stormed and raged at them through the bars. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
3. | "T'other" was a ragged, unkempt creature, with nothing very pleasant in his face. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
4. | East, West, North, and South, through the woods, four heavy-treading, unkempt figures crushed the high grass and cracked the branches, striding on cautiously to come together in the courtyard. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
5. | The Mormon looked at him with undisguised astonishment--indeed, it was difficult to recognize in this tattered, unkempt wanderer, with ghastly white face and fierce, wild eyes, the spruce young hunter of former days. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |