Quintilian, who recognized that prose has often metrical feet that read like verse, thought it ugly and inelegant that an entire verse should appear in a prose composition.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
George, too, must have been penetrated with the same sentiment, for he rode up close to the cart and grasping the mud guard, turned on his saddle and wistfully shaking his bead, gave vent to his feelings by the following very inelegant but extremely expressive ejaculation: Quels cochons!
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
Smith walked back to the bench and Roy, moistening his mitten in the inelegant but effective manner of the ball player, trotted out to his position.
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour