Example Sentences

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This venerable woman was prompt and undelaying in the relief she afforded to the necessitous.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus

Ulysses, toil-worn Hero, through the house Pass’d undelaying, by Minerva thick With darkness circumfus’d, till he arrived Where King Alcinoüs and Areta sat.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

Jove bids you hence with undelaying speed To Ida; in his presence once arrived, See that ye execute his whole command.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William