Example Sentences

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A grey-green expanse of smudgy waters grinning angrily at one with white foam-ridges, and over all a cheerless, unglowing canopy, apparently made of wet blotting-paper. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph

It came at last with a mother-of-pearl sheen at the zenith, such as I had never seen before in the tropics, unglowing, almost gray, with a strange reminder of high latitudes.

From The Shadow Line; a confession by Conrad, Joseph

Softly the bamboo bends As the sun sinks down unglowing, Softer the willow ends A sigh to the dusk around.

From Many Gods by Rice, Cale Young

"A grey-green expanse of smudgy waters grinning angrily at one with white foam-ridges, and over all a cheerless, unglowing canopy, apparently made of wet blotting paper."

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert