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  • But, really, there are so many unhailed heroes in this nation whose lives would be bolstered by five minutes of sitting knee to knee with Oprah.

    Tamar Abrams: Oprah: Please Stop Providing "Redemption" to the Rich and Soulless Tamar Abrams 2010

  • But, really, there are so many unhailed heroes in this nation whose lives would be bolstered by five minutes of sitting knee to knee with Oprah.

    Tamar Abrams: Oprah: Please Stop Providing "Redemption" to the Rich and Soulless 2010

  • What Todd said, though I do have a lot of love for the unhailed issue 81.

    365 Reasons to Love Comics #345 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • They liked the Canadians and they cheered them when their own regiments went by unhailed.

    Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Nor was the young adventuress in letters unhailed by literary men.

    The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood Whicher, George Frisbie 1915

  • We passed the ship unhailed, and glided on to the haven where we would be.

    To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903

  • On the one hand, he let Gratian's mysterious and stealthy assassins stifle him and the other, Césarine, run to the railroad station unhailed.

    The Son of Clemenceau Alexandre Dumas fils 1859

  • Full of glancing wit, of tender satire, of exquisite natural description, of subtle and strange analysis of human life, darkly passionate and weird, they yet floated unhailed barks upon the sea of publicity -- unhailed, but laden and gleaming at every crevice with the true treasure of Cathay.

    Literary and Social Essays George William Curtis 1858

  • An aging woman given to mordant observations on her own now-loveless marriage, her distant son, and her life's work, universally unhailed, she is the kind of mother who's capable of secretly desecrating her daughter-in-law's clothes with magic marker, for spite.

    Critical Mass 2009

  • During the Q&A period that followed, the market’s rise went unhailed.

    Inside Man 2010

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