Example Sentences

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By right of successful rebellion, when "Zeus imprisoned Cronus beneath the earth and the unvintaged sea".

From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew

Unwillingly went they along the beach of the unvintaged sea, and came to the huts and ships of the Myrmidons.

From The Iliad by Homer

O sad, sad am I When there I enter on that loneliness, And wine is unvintaged of the sun's flavour.

From Lysistrata by Aristophanes

He'd croon like one possessed the magic strain Of heroes tossed along the unvintaged main, And, crutch aloft in air, would fondly beat Time to the rushing of the poet's feet.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

But the corn Is grown beside the barren main, Is salt with sea-spray, blown and borne Across the green unvintaged plain.

From New Collected Rhymes by Lang, Andrew