Example Sentences

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I must writhe—a giant fettered,—    While those millions peak and pine; By my wealth their lot unbettered,    And their suffering worse than mine.

From Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) by Walsh, William Shepard

So the quilting-bee ended in a great deal of talk, and John McIntyre's condition remained unbettered.

From Treasure Valley by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

The same qualities and the same style will be found, unchanged, unbettered, in these following paragraphs—after a lapse of more than fifty years, and after—as aforesaid—long literary training.

From Christian Science by Twain, Mark