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Latin inscriptions of the Hauranic cities declare their origin: these, absolutely unalphabetic, refuse a single hint concerning the mysterious race which here lived and worked, and worked so nobly.

The Land of Midian 2003

"If I were to choose between two great calamities for my children," he goes on to say, "I would rather have them unalphabetic than unimaginative."

The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

In fact, the Guanches of Tenerife were unalphabetic.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

Scholars are agreed upon the fact that many of the earliest and best Arab poets were, as Mohammed boasted himself, unalphabetic [FN#434] or rather could neither read nor write.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Greek and Latin inscriptions of the Hauranic cities declare their origin: these, absolutely unalphabetic, refuse a single hint concerning the mysterious race which here lived and worked, and worked so nobly.

The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855