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unworldly

[uhn-wurld-lee] / ʌnˈwɜrld li /




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Unworldly and ungodly, lines like these pull Szybist beyond the propriety that restricts her and the violence that warns her away. 

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2013

Unworldly, passionate, sure of God's love, he is imbued with a vision of the spire as a living prayer of praise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such is the way Of free-hearted women, Radiant beings Who carry God's secret; All their seraphic Unworldly wisdom Spent without fearing Or calculation For the enrichment Of—whom, what, and wherefore?

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

But tell me this, Misther Unworldly Wiseman: why does the sight of Heaven wring your heart an mine as the sight of holy wather wrings the heart o the divil?

From John Bull's Other Island by Shaw, Bernard

Unworldly as Morris might be, he could easily guess why his father wished that he should marry, and marry well.

From Stella Fregelius by Haggard, Henry Rider




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