Example Sentences

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‘Let us shut out the night!' she said. ‘For you are still afraid, perhaps, of mist and tree-shadows and deep water, and untame things.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

If ye would after ashes live, beware To do like Erostrate, who burnt the fair Ephesian Temple, or to win a name To make of brass a cruel calf untame.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 486, April 23, 1831 by Various