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beautified .
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Examples
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She was poor, but the same good grit that made her loyal to her old grandmother's name, unshortened and unbeautified, gave her courage to work on toward the distant goal.
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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She was poor, but the same good grit that made her loyal to her old grandmother's name, unshortened and unbeautified, gave her courage to work on toward the distant goal.
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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She was poor, but the same good grit that made her loyal to her old grandmother's name, unshortened and unbeautified, gave her courage to work on toward the distant goal.
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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But to marry a handsome figure without character, fine features unbeautified by sentiment or good nature, is the most deplorable of mistakes.
How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon
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As a child he had vague and wistful cravings, untempered, unbeautified by such imaginative visions as usually accompany the eccentric feelings of such children as are subject to them.
The Countess of Albany Vernon Lee 1895
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But to marry a handsome figure without character, fine features unbeautified by sentiment or good-nature, is the most deplorable of mistakes.
Character Samuel Smiles 1858
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I say ornament: for I cannot persuade myself that God ever designed his church for a rude, naked, unbeautified lump, or to lay the foundations of purity in the ruins of decency.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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It would be against common sense to think that these vast celestial domains are empty and bare, that the great Artificer, to whom the creation of worlds is a very little thing, would leave them unbeautified and unadorned.
Latest Articles 2009
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And so at last the presage of morning, when, for an hour or two, sleep would free him from the bondage of his inner life -- that ugly prison, whose black walls were unbeautified by time, unsoftened by the clinging vines of memory; whose stones were but made darker by the shadow of the banner floating over all: the black flag of that "Tosca" that has unfurled itself above so many of the world's great.
The Genius Margaret Horton Potter
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