Example Sentences

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Sacred is the tear that is shed for the unreturning brave.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various

I call that an abuse which squanders the precious and unreturning hours over long chronicles of depravity.

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand

Come, gone,--gone forever,-- Gone as an unreturning river,-- Gone as to death the merriest liver,-- Gone as the year at the dying fall,-- To-morrow, to-day, yesterday, never,-- Gone once for all.

From Poems by Rossetti, Christina Georgina

But unreturning feet forget Rough places trodden in the long ago, Rememb'ring only paths with flowers beset, While pressing onward, wearily and slow.

From Songs Ysame by Bacon, Albion Fellows

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 Powys, John Cowper