Example Sentences

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They are then merely burdensome and uncheering elements within their narrow social sphere.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard

With this uncheering information I found my way back to my companions.

From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Webb, Archibald

Not a human face or habitation presented itself, nor any relief from silence, except the uncheering note of the screech owl. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

The world little knew the drudgery to which these unfortunate followers of the Ex-Emperor were thus exposed, and they must all have rejoiced at any termination of a toil so remorseless and so uncheering.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

"If that other thing was a panther, this is an elephant," was Billy's uncheering opinion.

From The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack