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The patient was whisked from my arms and in less than three seconds he was strapped on the table with a mask over his face, preternaturally still, unhumanly still.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2013

Of a sudden he seemed to grow in height, to tower unhumanly tall above the cringing wretch he confronted.

From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway

“Oh, it is all right,” he said; and began encouraging his mule with cries that echoed unhumanly up the mountain walls.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The young man, who was of delicate appearance and unhumanly pale, stretched himself at full length on his back, closed his eyes, moaned feebly, cursed the heat in a stricken whisper.

From The Flirt by Tarkington, Booth

‘O, it is all right,’ he said; and began encouraging his mule with cries that echoed unhumanly up the mountain walls.

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis