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One story, or myth, that had mixed itself up with their mouldy genealogy, interested the sculptor by its wild, and perhaps grotesque, yet not unfascinating peculiarity.

From The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

She was beginning to suffer from the cold void that is formed about a woman by an unattractive, unfascinating girlhood, by a girlhood devoid of beauty and sympathetic charm.

From Germinie Lacerteux by Goncourt, Jules de

"Madame la Princesse Ziska" began Gervase, addressing his unfascinating object with apparent indifference to his hideousness.

From Ziska by Corelli, Marie