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My elder brother was of a spirited roving disposition, and for fear that he should turn out what is generally termed ungain, my father determined to send him to sea: so once upon a time, when my brother was about fifteen, he took him to the great seaport of the county, where he apprenticed him to a captain of one of the ships which trade to the high Barbary coast.

Lavengro 2004

My elder brother was of a spirited, roving disposition, and for fear that he should turn out what is generally termed ungain, my father determined to send him to sea: so once upon a time, when my brother was about fifteen, he took him to the great sea - port of the county, where he apprenticed him to a captain of one of the ships which trade to the high Barbary coast.

Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

My elder brother was of a spirited, roving disposition, and for fear that he should turn out what is generally termed ungain, my father determined to send him to sea: so once upon a time, when my brother was about fifteen, he took him to the great sea - port of the county, where he apprenticed him to a captain of one of the ships which trade to the high Barbary coast.

Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

My elder brother was of a spirited roving disposition, and for fear that he should turn out what is generally termed ungain, my father determined to send him to sea: so once upon a time, when my brother was about fifteen, he took him to the great seaport of the county, where he apprenticed him to a captain of one of the ships which trade to the high Barbary coast.

Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

My elder brother was of a spirited roving disposition, and for fear that he should turn out what is generally termed ungain, my father determined to send him to sea: so once upon a time, when my brother was about fifteen, he took him to the great sea - port of the county, where he apprenticed him to a captain of one of the ships which trade to the high Barbary coast.

Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

She would then have retired; but Mr. Dubster, stopping her, said: 'Why, if you don't read it, ma'am, nobody'll be never the wiser for what I come about, for it's ungain-like to speak for one's self; and the young gentleman said he'd write to you, because, he said, you'd like it the best.'

Camilla 2008

He was not a very sympathetic brother, and had not responded to the suggestion that the ungain-doing Dan should take himself, his bad fortune, his unsatisfactory habits, also to New South Wales to settle down beside him.

A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

'One is the King and his People -- in gain and ungain one.

Songs from Books Rudyard Kipling 1900

And what Grace or Master-strokes of Action can we conceive such ungain Hoydens to have been capable of?

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

The neighbours, who heard his prayer from time to time, wondered why he should ask for “housen” to be built in such an “ungain” place.

From Death into Life Haslam, William 1880