unbreathed
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Origin of unbreathed
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, much of it seems commonplace, passionless, unbreathed upon.
From Time Magazine Archive
For though a slave, or a man living under a servile political system, may develop many fine qualities of character: yet such virtues will, in Milton's words, be but 'fugitive and cloistered', 'unexercised and unbreathed'.
From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney
From scenes of art which chase That thought away, turn, and with watchful eyes Feed it 'mid Nature's old felicities, Rocks, rivers, and smooth lakes more clear than glass Untouched, unbreathed upon.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
There is also the formless, unbreathed word of mood and dream and passion.
From Test Pilot by Collins, Jimmy
From scenes of art which chase That thought away, turn, and with watchful eyes Feed it ’mid Nature’s old felicities, Rocks, rivers, and smooth lakes more clear than glass Untouched, unbreathed upon.
From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell
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