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And I ground gently and sit in the silvered shadows with little bewildered shrimps flicking against me, and unlanguaged thoughts come and go -- impossible similes, too poignant phrases to be stopped and fettered with words, and I am neither scientist nor man nor naked organism, but just mind.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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Page 152 had come to pass — was true; when I looked upon the sweet, shy face of my girl bride and saw it transformed into the sacred tenderness of motherhood, saw the grace and charm, the soul-born protecting look in the mother eyes, the lilied sweetness of her face, the smile of unlanguaged mystery, with a gentleness and patience as sweet and meek as Mother Mary wore.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1913
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One instant .. and a weird lament came sobbing from the smitten violin, -- a wildly beautiful despair was wordlessly proclaimed, .. a melody that went straight to the heart and made it ache, and burn, and throb with a rising tumult of unlanguaged passion and desire!
Ardath Marie Corelli 1889
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Sah-luma's chariot whirled along with incredible swiftness, the hoofs of the galloping horses occasionally striking sparks of flame from the smooth mosaic-pictured pavement; but Theos now began to notice that there was a strange noiselessness in their movements -- that the whole CORTEGE appeared to be environed by a magic circle of silence -- and that the very night itself seemed breathlessly listening in entranced awe to some unlanguaged warning from the gods invisible.
Ardath Marie Corelli 1889
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I have sometimes noticed in the unlanguaged prattlings of infants a fondness for alliteration, assonance, and even rhyme, in which natural predisposition we may trace the three degrees through which our
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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I have sometimes noticed in the unlanguaged prattlings of infants a fondness for alliteration, assonance, and even rhyme, in which natural predisposition we may trace the three degrees through which our
The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855
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