Example Sentences

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Flameless—motionless—hurtless—the fine arrow; unplumed, unpoisoned, and unbarbed; aimless—shall we say also, readers young and old, travelling or abiding?

From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by Ruskin, John

The words beginning with un, in the following lines may be classed with participial adjectives:    "No king, no subject was; unscutcheoned all;     Uncrowned, unplumed, unhelmed, unpedigreed;     Unlaced, uncoroneted, unbestarred."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Spread no wings For sunward flight, thou soul with unplumed vans      Sweet is the lower air and safe, and known The homely levels: only strong ones leave      The nest each makes his own.

From The Light of Asia by Arnold, Edwin, Sir

There was no long line of coaches, and no display of magnificence this time—only a quiet, slow-moving procession following the unplumed hearse.

From Three People by Pansy

A bore is a biped, but not always unplumed.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Edgeworth, Maria