Example Sentences

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I have been running for my life," said I, "from the biggest scoundrels unhanged.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various

May you make the most of him, for such a liar never went unhanged.

From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by Champney, James Wells

I am the wisest person unhanged, since I comprehend my own folly.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

"What would you say if I told your sovereign that the man he put at the head of the syndicate is only one of that crowd of unhanged thieves who roam about in the world?"

From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II by Lermina, Jules

But for all that, I hang to a somewhat battered optimism, and one of the chief causes of that optimism is the fact that Huneker, after all these years, yet remains unhanged.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)