In front of her sat a dried, sallow, uncheerful woman of great age, ready to pounce upon her and expose her ignorance before the jeering class.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick
Now, there are sixty-four pice in a rupee, so the bhisti's wish had not an uncheerful ring in their ears as they followed their guide across the garden and thence to a new part of the palace grounds.
"The Great Mogul"
Louis Tracy
A stout Briton delivered this sentence, and gave in addition a sermon on meddling, short, emphatic, and not uncheerful apparently, if estimated by the hearty laugh that closed it; though a lady remarked, "Oh, dear me!
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith