unborrowed
- a word derived from borrow.
Example Sentences
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And really what regulatory capital means is essentially money that's unborrowed.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2015
The bottom was covered with coarse sand, which sparkled in the lonely sunbeam, and seemed to illuminate the spring with an unborrowed light.
From The Vision of the Fountain (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Both ſhine from their native, diſtinct, unborrowed merits, not from thoſe which are foreign, adventitious, and unnatural.
From Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies by More, Hannah
The whole song possessed the nameless charm peculiar to unborrowed thought, but four continually-recurring lines shone out from the rest like the blaze of the hearth whose joys they celebrated.
From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
In his Clifton Grove there are some little touches of landscape-painting which are, as I think, unborrowed.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis
