Example Sentences

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I am their helpless thrall, To an extent in civil speech unstateable.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890 by Various

She was beginning to be so puzzling and unstateable that he was ready to throw in with her other little peculiarities the extremest request which a wife could make.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas