Example Sentences

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“It would be utterly impossible to an American girl—I mean unperverted, and that’s the whole point—to talk as you’re talking to me now.”

From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry

Free and yet self-possessed, unspoiled, unperverted and unbiased.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

For the Imagination, unperverted, is essentially loving, and abhors all utility based on the pain or destruction of any creature.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

No unperverted mind who had the courage to face the mysterious wealth of solitude, had seen promising harvests choked by the drifting sand, could fail to understand the picture.

From The Red Room by Strindberg, August

It is worthy of remark, that in choosing His disciples He chose plain men from the laboring classes, who had lived the most obediently to the simple, unperverted laws of nature.

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher