Example Sentences

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The young man hastily allayed his appetite in a neighbouring restaurant, and returned with the speed of unallayed curiosity to the house in the Rue Lepic.

From New Arabian Nights by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Had she been there—— But the windows were blank and the place desolate, and he fled the spot and the town, with his questions unasked and his fears unallayed.

From The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Green, Anna Katharine

This was always the consoling thought to which Mary Potter returned, from the unallayed trouble of her mind.

From The Story of Kennett by Taylor, Bayard

However this might be, we know that Abram did not find rest in this weary land, unallayed with sorrow.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew

The richest in this tender sunset beauty is the St Martin's Summer, where the late love is suddenly smitten with the discovery that its apparent warmth is a ghost of old passion buried but unallayed.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)