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In the novel’s portrait of her perseverance, it pays moving homage to all the “unhailed, unnamed” women in history whose talents were dismissed.

Given America’s somewhat pathological focus on results-oriented medicine, and aversion to the acceptance of death, it’s little wonder that these women’s efforts went unhailed.

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The unhailed life: The Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Trout is probably the best baseball player we’ve got.

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And yet, O splendid ship, unhailed and nameless, I know not if, aiming a fancy, I rightly divine That thou hast a purpose joyful, a courage blameless, Thy port assured in a happier land than mine.

Some converts of the death bed perhaps there are, who scarcely make their way to heaven, alone, unhailed by one whom they saved or comforted, and like a vessel which struggles into port, with rent cordage and tattered sails, only not a wreck.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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