Example Sentences

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Subsidence of physical suffering allowed her to forget this emotion, in its nature unavowable.

From Born in Exile by Gissing, George

The breeze itself was lulled and the fog gathered itself together and wrapped the unavowable horrors of the night in a gray and ghoul-like shroud.

From The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

We were a pair of conspirators with unavowable things on our minds which were driving us to nervous catastrophe.

From The Red Planet by Locke, William John

They were, as it were, his subordinates; without their help he never could have carried on his unavowable profession quite so successfully.

From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Why, then, had he been conscious of a sub-emotion, quite unavowable, which contradicted his indignant sympathy during that talk last night in the street?

From Will Warburton by Gissing, George