Many a strange Roman curse on this ungenial climate must these same stones have heard.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
The sofas and chairs were upholstered in dark green leather, the chimney-piece was of carved marble, a few ancient and rather dismal pictures hung almost out of sight on the walls; and generally, the room would have produced an impression of a repellent and ungenial kind of pomp, if it had not been for the extremely human note struck by the large assortment of photographs.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
In the case of Scandinavia, it has been noticed that the pine-woods which clothe the mountains are being slowly elevated to ungenial heights, and are therefore gradually dying out along their upper limits.
"Geology"
James Geikie