Example Sentences

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But while his thoughts were on the affair his fingers made him droll small images of ten of the image-makers, which he set aside unquickened.

From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch

Once he was merely an animal, brutal, unquickened; now he is a man—I have not seen his like!

From Light of the Western Stars by Grey, Zane

Granting that there was a womanly intelligence there, as yet unquickened, he was not so irrational as to imagine he could jostle it into illumining activity in one short hour, or day, or week.

From A Face Illumined by Roe, Edward Payson

The thought of Glory is a temptation of my unquickened and unspiritual nature.

From The Christian A Story by Caine, Hall, Sir

She was extraordinarily lacking in conceit, and she could not realize, since her sympathy was unquickened by a responsive affection, that a love of short growth could mean much to its possessor.

From A Tar-Heel Baron by Holloway, Edward Stratton