Example Sentences

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In very desolate and lonely places, unsmothered and unstained by men as they exist today, such expressions of the Earth's stupendous, central vitality were still possible….

From The Centaur by Blackwood, Algernon

Jim Dyckman was so whelmed by the youth and flavor of her that his rapture exploded in an unsmothered gasp: "Golly! but you're great!"

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

With an unsmothered exclamation, she started forward, then stopped short.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel