Example Sentences

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The country was beautiful beyond description: rich in its mines, and its soil of unexceeded fertility.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Though twenty-five centuries have gone since then, Sappho is still unexceeded.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

Circled with limitation unexceeded Our eyes behold exterior mysteries And gods unascertainable as these— Shadows and shapes irresolubly heeded; Phantoms that tower, and substance scarcely known.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton