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Examples
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But he was decidedly untriumphant: he wished Laura had moved her foot and that she hadn't that patch upon her shoe.
The Flirt 1912
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But he was decidedly untriumphant: he wished Laura had moved her foot and that she hadn't that patch upon her shoe.
The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907
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In such untriumphant Procession has the Brunswick Manifesto issued!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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It seemed the height of folly to work for the race if the race was like this: men who, if they had dignity, looked cold and inaccessible to fine disastrous causes; men who were without dignity and base as monkeys; mountainous old men who looked bland because the crevices of their expressions had been filled up with fat, but who showed in the glares they gave her and her papers an immense expertness in coarse malice; hen-like genteel women with small mouths and mean little figures that tried for personality with trimmings and feather boas and all other adornments irrelevant to the structure of the human body; flappers who swung scarlet bows on their plaits and otherwise assailed their Presbyterian environment by glad cries of the appearance; and on all these faces the smirk of superior sagacity that vulgar people give to the untriumphant ideal.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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