Example Sentences

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I, to whom friendship has since been like sunlight and like sleep, left school unbrightened and unrefreshed by commerce with a single friend.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund

There is all the dreary routine of the solitary life unbrightened by that companionship which is all the world to the one who is left behind.

From The Marriage of Elinor by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

At the moment life seemed to stretch out before her as a dreary waste, unbrightened by a single flower—a long, toilsome road to be trod in loneliness and pain.

From Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Finley, Martha

His repentance was darkened by despondency; his resolutions were unbrightened by hope.

From Antonina by Collins, Wilkie

Once in a while it dimly comes back to me that, in a past existence unbrightened by Nell Van Buren and Phyllis Rivers, I came to Holland with the object of painting pictures.

From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Anderson, Karl