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From the show’s very first season, the quality of the never went unpraised or unrecognized.

From Time • Sep. 28, 2013

The bleachers swarmed with youth unanchored, unpraised, and convulsed with the dreams of gangly boys and fat boys who wanted to be a part of something with a desperation that was almost palpable and alive.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Sisterly love, free solitude, unpraised creation, were to remain your most poignant joys.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)

Perhaps he lives and dies unpraised, This trafficker in humble sweets, Because his little shops are raised By thousands in the city streets.

From Trees and Other Poems by Kilmer, Joyce

Sure enough from the boskages adjacent came the ring and tap of a hammer to the accompaniment of a rich, sweet voice unpraised in song.

From Peregrine's Progress by Farnol, Jeffery