Example Sentences

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Oxymoron as Behold them unbeheld, unheard Hear all. —'none'.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton

Its breast was hollowed as the tooth of eld; And boys, their creeping unbeheld, A laughing moment dwelled.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

Still, the hovering Voice unshed,   And the Vision unbeheld, And the mute sky overhead,   And his longing, still withheld!

From The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows by Peabody, Josephine Preston

Salt tears of sorrow unbeheld, Passionate cries unchronicled, And silent strifes for the right— Angels shall count them, and earth shall sigh That she left her best children to battle and die.

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

Ah me! in ages far away,   The good, the heavenly land, Though unbeheld, quite near them lay,   And men could understand.

From A Hidden Life and Other Poems by MacDonald, George