return
verb (used without object)
to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return to public office;
unreturning
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a word derived from
return.
Example Sentences
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Come, gone—gone for ever— Gone as an unreturning river— Gone as to death the merriest liver— Gone as the year at the dying fall— 370 To-morrow, to-day, yesterday, never— Gone once for all.
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti
For a man's own heart must swear by the living Lord, or else he will find no path through the dread wilderness of death for the unreturning feet.
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
It may be shattered with feeble and inexpressive demands, but all the same it is gone, and it is unreturning.
From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting
Many might be given, for example: Byron's Waterloo: 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.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature by Ontario. Ministry of Education
It is of him that one must think, when this or that rock-chasm cries aloud for its Demon, or this or that deserted roadway mutters of its unreturning dead.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys
