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In 112 extremely uncostly frames on the wall were the coffin-plates of the departed members of the family.

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Seton, Ernest Thompson

They are uncostly, plain, and humble, showing the unostentatious mind of the great man.

From Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic by Moore, George

I bait him with my match-box and my pouch, Nor grudge the uncostly sympathy of smoke, His equal now, divinely unemployed.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

It bore that air of uncostly refinement which is one of the most pleasing outward features of the aloof civilization to which it, though not the Callenders, belonged.

From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo

The English have still much of that ancient puritanism which finds a vague sinfulness in the uncostly delights of sunshine, and colour, and ease of mind.

From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)