Unmixed

Examples

• Good fruit, Sir Knight, said the yeoman, will sometimes grow on a sorry tree; and evil times are not always productive of evil alone and unmixed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I considered her with respect and admiration, unmixed with jealousy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They appeared to afford rather an unusual unction to his soul, and his astonishment seemed to me not quite unmixed with gratitude. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She met Ladislaw with that exquisite smile of good-will which is unmixed with vanity, and held out her hand to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His gorgeousness was not unmixed with dirt; and both in complexion and consistency he had suffered from the closeness of his pantry. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And shall we receive into our State all the three styles, or one only of the two unmixed styles? Plato. The Republic.
• Hence the wooden shoes, and those made of coarse hide and dressed and undressed skins, and of coarse cloth, mixed or unmixed with leather. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This source of property can never be explained but from the imaginations; and one may affirm, that the causes are here unmixed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This hope was not unmixed with the glow of proud delight--the joyous maiden surprise that she was chosen by the man whom her admiration had chosen. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My companion's expressive face showed a sympathy which was not, I am afraid, entirely unmixed with satisfaction. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Corn and cotton seed are thus also planted, mixed or unmixed with the fertilising material. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As Ginevra speaks, they do not carry with them the sound of unmixed truth: I believe she exaggerates--perhaps invents--but I want to know how far. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• RECORDS A TOUCHING ACT OF DELICATE FEELING, NOT UNMIXED WITH PLEASANTRY, ACHIEVED AND PERFORMED BY Messrs. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We must conclude, therefore, that wars are not always evils unmixed with some good. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He speaks enthusiastically of that pleasure which one feels in truth, and which in this world is about the only pure and unmixed happiness. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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