Example Sentences

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“Here Winter holds his unrejoicing Court, Here arms his winds with all-subduing frost, Moulds his fierce hail, and treasures up his snows, Throned in his palace of cerulean ice.”

From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon

“Throned in his palace of cerulean ice, Here Winter holds his unrejoicing court.”

From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Stables, Gordon

In one thing Bermuda is eminently tropical—was in May, at least—the unbrilliant, slightly faded, unrejoicing look of the landscape.

From Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Twain, Mark