Example Sentences

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Glory of the poet, glow O’ the humorist who castigates his kind, Suave summer-lightning lambency which plays On stag-horned tree, misshapen crag askew, Then vanishes with unvindictive smile After a moment’s laying black earth bare.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Bertram was of a mild, inoffensive and quite unvindictive nature, but he found himself wishing that the Military Landing Officer’s dinner might thoroughly disagree with him.

From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.

I was rudely awakened from this reverie of wretchedness by the crowd which surged against me with a blind, unvindictive violence.

From Eleven Possible Cases by Fyles, Franklin