unreturning
- a word derived from return.
Example Sentences
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Hands had stroked them, which are cold, Now for years, in churchyard mould; Comrades of our past were they, Of that unreturning day.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew
And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with Nature’s tear drops, as they pass; Grieving, if aught inanimate e’er grieves, Over the unreturning brave: alas!
From Reminiscences of the Thirty-Fourth Regiment, Mass. Vol. Infantry by Clark, William H.
O Carthage and the unreturning ships, The fallen pinnacle, the shifting Sign!
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce
Uncle Billy lifted his abstracted eyes from the current, still pouring its unreturning gold into the sulking sun, and said, with a deprecatory smile, "Never!"
From International Short Stories American by Various
But after a few years he swept out of Marlowe’s orbit into his own vaster and unreturning curve.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
