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“Dorothea looked deep into the ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon’s mind, seeing reflected there every quality she herself brought.”

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan

Ay, from his birth each man is vowed and given     To a vast loneliness, ungauged, unspanned, Whether by pain and woe his soul be riven,     Or all fair pleasures clustered 'neath his hand.

From Last Poems by Hope, Laurence

And such a voice!—rich, soft, transcendent, yet suggesting ungauged resources of enchantment unconsciously held in reserve.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

It was the whole ungauged pressure of his personality.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

What greater evil can I wish my foe, Than his full draught of pleasure, from a cask 670 Unbroach’d by just authority, ungauged By temperance, by reason unrefined?

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward