Example Sentences

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From machicolated tower, keep, peel and curtain, the nimble Highlanders, torchless, scrambled down, cheering as they came.

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert

It is resolved—they march—consenting Night Guides with her star their dim and torchless flight; Already they perceive its tranquil beam Sleep on the surface of the barrier stream; Already they descry—Is yon the bank?

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley