Example Sentences

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An Inflammation may also become hard, when it forms what we call a Scirrhus, which is a very hard Tumour, indolent, or unpainful.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Though even this is far from being unpainful, yet the Pain coming on more gradually, is less terrifying and horrid.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

There the change, though it was gradual and unpainful, according to the gentlest laws of nature, has been entire and complete.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

Only the safe and unpainful have been published in recent years—at least in ambitious, voluminous form.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles