Example Sentences

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The tall ship moved how slowly on With me and hundreds more, That thought not then of wanderings, But of unwhispered, longed-for things, Familiar things of home.

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John

Is not he bound to thee, as thou to him, By vows, unwhispered here, yet heard above?

From Rhyme? And Reason? by Carroll, Lewis

Until we saw, far, very far, Or dreamed we saw, her cliffs, And thought of sweet, intolerable things, Of England—dark, unwhispered things, Such things, as we crept home.

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John

Did she guess anything of that unwhispered secret which he promised to tell her in the courts of Heaven?

From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Holt, Emily Sarah

The name was always with him now, unspoken, unwhispered even; but occupying every waking thought.

From The Man in the Twilight by Cullum, Ridgwell