Example Sentences

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Yet these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression are only health or fortunate constitution.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Like a sal- amander he passes across the burning deck with unscathed feet, and glides through the stifling smoke with unchoked breath.

From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Verne, Jules

Then, one day—God knows when—the sky widened behind the trees, and I saw the blue flank of a hill unchoked by timber.

From The Reckoning by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Together, very cautiously, they explored the three sides of the platform still unchoked by ruins.

From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan

The novel is not made—it grows, and the novelist does little more than plant the seed and keep the growth unchoked by weeds.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary