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Then in a burst of filial candour, he threw himself upon his father's mercy, only to be abused and measurelessly condemned.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

In those measurelessly long hot afternoons in the little shop at Wimblehurst he had talked and dreamt of the Romance of Modern Commerce.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Happy the things we here discern; More happy those for which we yearn; But measurelessly happy above All else are those we guess not of!

From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

But if that is so strange to Sally, how measurelessly stranger is she herself to her mother beside her!

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

Ah, the two worlds! so strangely are they one, And yet so measurelessly wide apart!

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George