SYN: Uneven, bristly, shaggy, rough, wrinkled, rude, harsh, hard, crabbed, severe, austere, surly, turbulent, inclement, bluff, blunt, untutored, churlish, unpolished, difficult.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Through association these impressions become bound up with the motor impulses.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"And how old is this lady that is being bred up for a countess?" asked he of the Grove.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men, and to succor their distresses.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Yet if it like any, that it be bound up in their native tongues also, it promiseth three good thing of itself.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

But what, then, must we understand by these lavers, and by this sacrifice being washed in them, in order to its being burned upon the altar?
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

As this was the moment of action, little was said, but we all breakfasted, and sallied forth, in good earnest, on the important business before us.
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

Not for victory or to increase my dominions do I desire to war upon the Incas, but because unless I strike I shall presently be struck, though for a little while this marriage might hold back the blow.
— from The Virgin of the Sun by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Fourth, for the great and pure thought it brings before us and raises in us.
— from Music Talks with Children by Thomas Tapper

The unharmed condition of the human-headed birds and other images in the buried edifice near Avantipura leaves no doubt that they escaped the fury of the iconoclast by being under water, and perhaps silted up before the date of his conquest.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Liebreich considered that the action of chloral was due to its being broken up by the alkali of the blood, and the system being thus brought into a state precisely similar to its condition when anæsthetised by chloroform vapour.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

—As there is a doubt about a purchaser coming forward to bid for the Pavilion at Brighton, we suggest that it be bought up for the Chinese Collection, unless No.
— from Florizel's Folly by John Ashton

A few minutes sufficed to surround us with silks and satins, ribbons and velvets; a few more were consumed in the discussion of "the unusual prevalence" of "flat colors" and "neutral tints," together with conjectures as to the duration of this sombre mode, which soon gave place to the important business before us.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, January, 1854 by Various

He adds an Epithet to Pelion which very much swells the Idea, by bringing up to the Reader's Imagination all the Woods that grew upon it.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

Several of the Indian boys brought up at the school have obtained a considerable amount of learning, and some are ordained ministers of the gospel, and others catechists and schoolmasters at various missionary stations scattered throughout the wide extent of Rupert’s Land.
— from The Grateful Indian, and Other Stories by William Henry Giles Kingston