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Most die, not the quite unappalling death of the hero, but the horrible Philistine's death, as Goethe called it.

The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896

The fact is that Turner, when he prepared these drawings, had been newly inspired by the scenery of the Continent; and with his mind entirely occupied by the ruined towers of the Rhine, he found himself called upon to return to the formal embrasures and unappalling elevations of English forts and hills.

The Harbours of England John Ruskin 1859

It seemed, in truth, to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the sisters imbibed a soothing impression of security, as they gazed upon its romantic though not unappalling beauties.

The Last of the Mohicans 1826

It seemed, in truth, to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the sisters imbibed a soothing impression of security, as they gazed upon its romantic, though not unappalling beauties.

The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820

It seemed, in truth, to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the sisters imbibed a soothing impression of security, as they gazed upon its romantic though not unappalling beauties.

The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820

The hands and feet that have served the villager and the citizen at homely tasks have all the lowliness of his patois, to his mind; and when he must perforce yield up their employment, we may believe that it is a simple thing to die in so simple and so narrow a language, one so comfortable, neighbourly, tolerant, and compassionate; so confidential; so incapable, ignorant, unappalling, inapt to wing any wearied thought upon difficult flight or to spur it upon hard travelling.

Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884