Example Sentences

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Three days before, its gravelled walks were smooth and clean; flowers were in bloom; birds carolled their songs amid the trees; the monuments were undefaced; the marble slabs pure and white.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

No one had called; everything remained as it was; even the direction he had written upon his door, telling where he was to be found, remained undefaced, save by the pelting rain.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

He, too, was a fine specimen of humanity, a giant, nobly built, with a superbly handsome face, something like that of an undefaced Sphinx.

From The Desert Drum 1905 by Hichens, Robert Smythe

And we who gaze Upon each, rude memorial—letter and date— Still undefaced by storm and length of days, Stand, as beneath the shadow of a fate!

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

Looking into the depth of the forest as it slopes away on either side, the impression is of a magnificent park, undefaced by what are called improvements.

From Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills by Owen, Luella Agnes