Example Sentences

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Most die, not the quite unappalling death of the hero, but the horrible Philistine's death, as Goethe called it.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von

It seemed, in truth, to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the sisters imbibed a soothing impression of security, as they gazed upon its romantic though not unappalling beauties.

From The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore

It seemed, in truth, to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the sisters imbibed a soothing impression of security, as they gazed upon its romantic, though not unappalling beauties.

From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore

Ah! thou still art calling, calling, With a soft voice unappalling; And it vibrates in far circles through the everlasting years; When thou knockest, even so!

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James