Example Sentences

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It was an efficient, sprayless, perfectly-controlled operation, an operation carried out happily and in high spirits, and it depressed Phil.

From The Short Life by Donovan, Francis

Urn of the sprayless fountain, Glimmering nymph and faun, Gleam through the dark-plumed cedar, Fade on the dusky lawn.

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various