Example Sentences

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Let the galled jade wince, his breakfast appetite would be unwrung; and then he started violently, lost his balance, and almost fell to the floor.

From Visionaries by Huneker, James

Though he did not say so, we felt that he would have liked to apologize to us for its intrusion in the show; but our withers were unwrung.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart

I sincerely hope that long ere this your withers have been unwrung, and that my friend, Dr Graves, has restored you to the rank of a biped.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund

Refuse to use the word 'opinion' abstractly, keep it in its real environment, and the withers of pragmatism remain unwrung.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

At Susan's name the fancy plays With chiming thoughts of early days, And hearts unwrung; When all too fair our future smiled, When she was Mirth's adopted child, And I was young.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane