Example Sentences

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But it was evident that the boy was putting a devastating strain upon an unexuberant and tardy wit when he endeavoured to ascribe to it a literary rendering.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

For unexuberant yet unpathological pals of the Auto-Comrade are as rare as harmonious households in which the efforts of a devoted and blissful wife support an able-bodied husband.

From The Joyful Heart by Schauffler, Robert Haven