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Just as well as though it had been voiced he caught the unphrased inference in the plump one's query.

From Then I'll Come Back to You by Evans, Larry

She was not without an unphrased feeling that death was so sacred or at least so solemn a subject that it should be treated with reverence.

From The Pagans by Bates, Arlo

The doctor's voice was grim with unphrased reproach.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.

Over and over, unphrased, our minds echo lines of that verse found in the pocket of the soldier dead at Gallipoli: "We saw the powers of darkness put to flight, We saw the morning break."

From Joy in the Morning by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman

Of such sort were the unphrased, incomplete thoughts that went round and round a thousand times over in a monotonous whirl in my head.

From The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance