Example Sentences

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Though twenty-five centuries have gone since then, Sappho is still unexceeded.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

The country was beautiful beyond description: rich in its mines, and its soil of unexceeded fertility.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Circled with limitation unexceeded Our eyes behold exterior mysteries And gods unascertainable as these— Shadows and shapes irresolubly heeded; Phantoms that tower, and substance scarcely known.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton