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Amending Shakespeare, he gave Sam and the others a crash course in mineralogy, pointing out that “nothing that glitters is gold . . . gold in its native state is dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Amending Shakespeare, he gave Sam and the others a crash course in mineralogy, pointing out that “nothing that glitters is gold . . . gold in its native state is dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

I myself grew up in Indianapolis, where common speech sounds like a band saw cutting galvanized tin, and employs a vocabulary as unornamental as a monkey wrench.

In which of the states is it easiest to talk to strangers? Ann Althouse 2009

It is utterly slovenly-looking, and unornamental, abounds in slouching bar-room-looking characters, and looks a place of low, mean lives.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

In the meantime great pains are being taken with her education, and her accomplishments promise to be varied, though entirely unornamental.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

A TRING GIRL should consult a doctor about the moles if very unornamental.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 Various

Boulanger's delight, while Isidore on donning the new made, and by no means unornamental moccasins, declared that nothing could be more comfortable, and that he felt able to accomplish any journey that the guide might think fit to lay out for the day.

The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Alfred H. Engelbach

Thus, with his head tied up, and secretly lamenting the unornamental figure he now presented to the eyes of his partner and charmer, Quimby resumed the game.

Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

The doctor under her hands became a dignified and not unornamental figure-head to the concern, in whom she took a certain filial pride.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

Down many deep steps beneath the stage is a winding passage leading past the unornamental bases of what appear to be huge balks of timber, rising up into space.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various