Example Sentences

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Fin said that Hakon might be unvictorious; ‘and then wouldst thou have forfeited both wealth and peace; and if thou wert victorious over the King then wouldst thou be dubbed a traitor.’

From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Hearn, Ethel Harriet

However sorely defeated, or overwhelmed by numbers, they never left the ground alive and unvictorious, and as this was well known, their enemies were seldom eager to attack such resolute fighters.

From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew

“Even the gods,” they complain, “fight unvictorious against stupidity.”

From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander

He had begun youth in the Court of Ferdinand; had gone on in Wellington and other arduous, victorious and unvictorious, soldierings; familiar in camps and council-rooms, in presence-chambers and in prisons.

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas