unfleshly
Example Sentences
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They are talking about a volume so small that Winnie the Pooh could carry it in his hip pocket, and so unfleshly that a vestal virgin might choose to read it at a church picnic.
From Time Magazine Archive
As she entered the drawing-room she came from out of doors, a slender, unfleshly figure, all intellect and idea.
From Project Gutenberg
The sacred and unfleshly calling of a bishop threw a protecting mantle over the modest shoulders of his wife and daughters; and these did not go unclad.
From Project Gutenberg
The eye is open, with convulsive strain— A most unfleshly orb! the stars that wane Have nothing of its hue; for it is cast With sickly blood, and terribly aghast!
From Project Gutenberg
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