Example Sentences

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The sound blurred, flowed unsyllabled as a stream, the girl's hand grew light in mine; she was fading, becoming unreal; I saw her eyes like faint stars in a mist.

From The ninth vibration and other stories by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)

Bel was hardly equal yet to five-minute Crambo; and besides, she was doing her best; trying to put something clearly into syllables that said itself, unsyllabled, to her.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

How often is this divine art the unsyllabled expression of a miserable, or an overjoyed heart.

From Leah Mordecai by Abbott, Belle K. (Belle Kendrick)

I heard it stop; then followed, with slight intervals, two unsyllabled sounds.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

The silence was so long—so pregnant with unsyllabled anguish—that at last I closed a warm hand over his fingers as they clasped the arm-end of his chair.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis