Example Sentences

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"You brought the flute?" she said, in that toneless, melancholy, unstriving voice of hers.

From Aaron's Rod by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Still and unstriving now, What plottest thou, Within thy universe-ulterior deeps, Dark as the final lull of suns?

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton