unlifting
- a word derived from lift.
Example Sentences
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There was no stony bitterness in her face, but an unlifting shadow that mutely revealed the unnumbered hours of strife and desolation which were slowly bowing that brave heart to the dust.
From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
Passing the mouth of Lonesome, he flashed his scythe into its unlifting shadows and went stalking on.
From The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by Fox, John
Over all, unlifting, unchanging, brooded the deadly vapour, bearing the plague in its heavy folds, and filling the air with a sultry lurid haze.
From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel)
He endeavored to divert her thoughts, by introducing various topics; and she talked and smiled, and even played and sang, yet the unlifting cloud lay on her brow.
From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
You cannot help me in future, and it would grieve me to think that I fell, as an unlifting shadow, between your heart and the sunshine that warms it.
From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
