Example Sentences

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The bushy, frightful eyebrows of Emma Edwardovna rose upward; the eyes widened joyously; and a real, uncounterfeited smile spread over her cheeks of a behemoth.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

But here the honesty of Philopoemen showed itself clearly to be a real, uncounterfeited virtue.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Ah! didst thou love as thy Hamilcar loves, Words were superfluous; in my eyes, my Barce, Thou'dst read the tender eloquence of love, Th' uncounterfeited language of my heart.

From The Inflexible Captive A Tragedy, in Five Acts by More, Hannah