Example Sentences

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How many now, out across this big, beautiful, blushingly awakening world, were undreaming of their approaching joy—or unconscious of their creeping doom?

From Sunlight Patch by Harris, Credo Fitch

What, then, happened to earth, and how long did that undreaming slumber last from which I woke to find things so altered?

From A Crystal Age by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

Lucy supposed that the seemingly undreaming people who were Denis's friends were not rich enough; they hadn't reached plutocracy, where romance resides, but merely prosperity, which has fewer possibilities.

From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

Young mothers dreamed over the cradles of those who now sleep here, undreaming; here is the end of all dreams.

From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

What a charming scene could then have been staged, of sensitive genius misunderstood by coarse-grained labour; of vision-drunken youth berated by undreaming age!

From The White Riband Or, a Young Female's Folly by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)