Example Sentences

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The quiet colouring, unobtrusive, could not be more nicely conceived—it is the long Sabbath quiet of an unworking world.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

For they were all peopled, these cells of the honeycomb, and—so it seemed to him—with larvæ, bright-hued, unworking, indolent, full-fed.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas