On the whole, I don't think you can pick these guys out based on their work, unless you look for violence unenlivened by any real talent. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The long drive was unenlivened by much conversation. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Yet their imaginations have held up the dream of life in America, and they can't bear to lead lives that are unenlivened by anticipation, so off they go. ❋ Unknown (2002)
We were unenlivened by the talk we heard on all sides as to the probable effect of the Foreign ❋ T. Phelan (N/A)
Everywhere were the signs of long neglect and decay, and unenlivened by the cheering sounds of human toil the place was weird and awful. ❋ Kirk Monroe (N/A)
The two prevailing schools of literature in England, at that time, were the trashy and mouthing writers who adopted the sounding language of Johnson and Darwin, unenlivened by the vigorous thought of either; and the "dead-sea apes" of that inflated, sentimental, revolutionary style which Diderot had unconsciously originated, and Kotzebue carried beyond the verge of caricature. ❋ Various (N/A)
Crail; a star peeped at times between the flying clouds, and even the moon looked forth once, but immediately veiled her face again, as if one glance at the iron shore and barren scenery, unenlivened by hedge or tree, were quite enough to prevent her from looking again. ❋ Various (N/A)
Hildebrand Anne was used to long periods unenlivened by companions of his own age; and he began forthwith to make the best of the forest. ❋ Edgar Jepson (1900)
The child felt it from the first; there was no hugging nor exclaiming as that lady drove her away -- there was only a frightening silence, unenlivened even by the invidious enquiries of former years, which culminated, according to its stern nature, in a still more frightening old woman, a figure awaiting her on the very doorstep. ❋ Henry James (1879)
But the prince saw that in spite of the loud sounds of joy their faces were unenlivened and anxious. ❋ Boles��aw Prus (1879)
Her station in exile at the Wells of the weariful rich, under the weight of the sullen secret, unenlivened by Dudley's courtship, subdued her to the world's decrees; phrased thus: 'I am not to be a heroine.' ❋ George Meredith (1868)
She was very pale, almost as pale as her white dress, which was unenlivened by any scrap of color, and which hung about her in loose folds that gave a statuesque grace to her figure. ❋ Mary Elizabeth (1863)
Page 18 habitation, -- presented a picture of gloom and grandeur, calculated deeply to impress the mind; such a picture as dense solitude, unenlivened by a single trace of civilization, is ever apt to produce. ❋ Unknown (1863)
He claimed to be a good farmer, but no orator, yet he was noted for the compactness of his logic, which was unenlivened by a figure of speech or a flight of fancy. ❋ Benjamin Perley Poore (1853)
Lapi, a book unenlivened by a spark of genius, but interesting, to me, as illustrative of Florence. ❋ Ossoli, Margaret F (1851)
Our next day's march was unenlivened by any particular incident. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
