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In a word, it expounded the relation of the whole to its parts, but left unexpounded the relation of the parts to one another.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

As gospel unexpounded by a steeple-man," said the Independent; "yet truly it is but little I have to say.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir

They leave much unexpounded; and disclosing new mysteries, add to the enigma.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

In the violent eruption of reproaches which bursts from Kent in this dialogue, there are some epithets which the commentators have left unexpounded, and which I am not very able to make clear.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur