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having no previous example or precedent or parallel
a time of unexampled prosperity
How To Use unexampled In A Sentence
- a time of unexampled prosperity
- He is captivating with his frankness, confidingness, and unexampled naivete! The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- This habit of taking tobacco gradually extended from the extremities of the north to those of the south, and, in one form or other, seems to be equally grateful to the inhabitants of every climate; and by a singular caprice of the human species, no less inexplicable than unexampled (so bewitching is the acquired taste for Confederate Prisoners at Roanoke Island
- And today, as then, Churchill's next comment is note perfect: ‘Our comradeship and our brotherhood in war were unexampled.’
- The best portraiture in history was, of course, done in the Low Countries, in an unexampled tradition that continued until the economic eclipse of the Netherlands by England.
- To the trials of that stern inquisitress, Marie Antoinette was fully exposed in her later years; and not only did she rise above them, but the more terrible and unexampled they were, the more conspicuous was the superiority of her mind to fortune. The Life of Marie Antoinette
- The catastrophe into which the world has thrust the socialist proletariat is an unexampled misfortune for humanity.
- To paraphrase Trotsky, even in times of unexampled crisis, mad acts like this constitute an unimportant percentage.
- He permitted his eyes for a moment to fasten upon her, to admire her, and to enjoy triumphantly her confusion in silence: 'Ah, beauteous tyrant!' he then cried; 'if this instant were less inappreciable, in what language could I upbraid thy unexampled abuse of power? Camilla
- The mass of facts and citations collected by him and pieced together in his writings is in fact unexampled in antiquity, though it is not unlikely that he drew at times upon the florilegia, or anthologies, exhibiting choice passages of literature. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery