unrenowned

Example Sentences

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Also, I’m a writer, a trade unrenowned for temperance.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2019

The team has a track record of bad starts against wounded or unrenowned opposition.

From Washington Times • Jan. 10, 2017

Would to God he were poor and unrenowned as I thought him to be, when I married him!—for so we should always have been happy.

From Temporal Power by Corelli, Marie

Dr. Bagby was sent with the dead soldier to Richmond and soon afterward was discharged because of ill health, "and thus ended the record of an unrenowned warrior."

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell

Then Perseus answered boldly: "Better to die in the flower of youth, on the chance of winning a noble name, than to live at ease like the sheep, and die unloved and unrenowned."

From Heroes Every Child Should Know by Mabie, Hamilton Wright