Example Sentences

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At the sound of that unstifled yawn, Rosamund turned her head with the slow grace which marked her every movement.

From The Brethren by Haggard, Henry Rider

The part the pigeon performs is to transport the nut to free, unstifled soil.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Or was it only the unstifled yearning in his heart that made her seem so?

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Its streets are the sewers, where rats abound; Where swarms, unstifled, unstarved, undrowned, Their ravenous population.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated by Various