Unfinished

Examples

• You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This brings us round, my dear,' he then pursued, 'to the question we left unfinished: namely, whether there's to be any new go-in for Fashion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And leave your case unfinished? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Who had begun the cleansing of the marble, and who had left it unfinished? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You have to be like Rodin, Michelangelo, and leave a piece of raw rock unfinished to your figure. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The tidy basket, with the bit of work she left unfinished when the needle grew 'so heavy', was still on its accustomed shelf. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The one is a finished work which received the last touches of the author: the other is imperfectly executed, and apparently unfinished. Plato. The Republic.
• A broad ray of light fell into the garret, and showed the workman with an unfinished shoe upon his lap, pausing in his labour. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The Young Person's face became more unfinished than ever, and I think she began to cry. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He would keep the unfinished bliss of his own yearning even through the torture she inflicted upon him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• By noon they had carried an unfinished work less than a half mile from the fort, and turned it so as to face the other way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Scattered here and there were statues finished and unfinished, some completed in marble, others incomplete in clay. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You are so changed, I sometimes think-- there Amy stopped, with a half-timid, half-wistful look, more significant than her unfinished speech. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I disposed of another in the back drawing-room, under some unfinished embroidery, which I knew to be of Lady Verinder's working. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And why are their faces so sadly unfinished, especially about the corners of the eyelids? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• One ought to add the contents of an unfinished piece of extraordinary fiction based wholly on new inventions and devices utterly unknown to mankind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They took some time (not so much on account of their variety, as Jip's reluctance), and were still unfinished when it was heard at the door. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The work of cleansing the monument had been left unfinished, and the person by whom it had been begun might return to complete it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There was his unfinished book. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He took off his coat, set down his lantern, and getting into the unfinished grave, worked at it for an hour or so with right good-will. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• On Wednesday it was still unfinished, so I hammered away until Friday--that is, yesterday. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He slept heavily, and his tray of shoemaking tools, and his old unfinished work, were all as usual. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The wrestling had some deep meaning to them--an unfinished meaning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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