sealed book
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sealed book
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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They know raptures which are a sealed book to others, and if they have wept for sadness, they have shed tears of ineffable joy as well.
From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Charles Gounod
Never before had I realised so fully that he was the possessor of gifts the nature of which was as a sealed book to the common mortal.
From Mrs. Fitz by J. C. Snaith
His past was a sealed book, therefore it was adjudged disreputable; his present was a golden age, so he had evidently turned over a new leaf.
From A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Newell Boothby
Perhaps I cannot open my subject in any better way than by giving a few reasons why a knowledge of The Beyond has remained a sealed book for centuries.
From Beyond by Henry Seward Hubbard
The Bible was a sealed book to him.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
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