19 examples of unaccomplished in sentences

His instrument is a trumpet of challenge; and he lived, as he appropriately died, in the progress of an unaccomplished campaign.

But so important was success, that she could not feel secure of attaining it while it was still unaccomplished.

He had been so keen to see the general, and yet he was coming back with his mission unaccomplished.

She had to turn her energies to comforting her disconsolate companions, but this task was still unaccomplished when the door opened and the Vicar stalked in upon them.

"Virtually convent-bred more closely than the maids themselves," says Ruskin, "I was thrown, bound hand and foot, in my unaccomplished simplicity, into the fiery furnace."

Adj. not completed &c v.; incomplete &c 53; uncompleted, unfinished, unaccomplished, unperformed, unexecuted; sketchy, addle.

For the same reason, I was obliged to leave the ascent of the Yamtik, which I had before vainly attempted from Libmanan, unaccomplished from this point, although I had the advantage of the company of an obliging French planter in a boat excursion in a north-westerly direction along the coast.

Marcellus, however, succeeded in persuading him that they should not go away with their object unaccomplished, observing that as there were many objects which great generals should not attempt, so when once attempted they should not be abandoned, because the mere report in either case would have important consequences.

But Hannibal, when he saw that the enemy could not be drawn into another engagement, nor a passage be forced through their camp into Capua, resolved to remove his camp from that place and leave the attempt unaccomplished, fearful lest the new consuls might cut off his supplies of provision.

" "I trust not," rejoined the grocer, shuddering; "but as I have gone thus far, I will not leave my errand unaccomplished.

The hostile Indians have not been removed from the State of Florida, and the withdrawal of the troops therefrom, leaving that object unaccomplished, would be most injurious to the inhabitants and a breach of the positive engagement of the General Government.

The object, however, remained unaccomplished; as the hair was either very obstinate and would not be induced to lie as desired, or from extreme modesty objected to such an elevated position, and, in consequence, stopped half-way, as if undecided whether to lie flat or remain erect, producing the effect that would have been presented had he been decorated with a pair of horns.

VII The great Cartoon has become less even than a memory, and so, perhaps, we ought to leave it in the limbo of things inchoate and unaccomplished.

His object, however, was unaccomplished, for his enemy was not present; and in the confusion into which the congregation were thrown by such a warlike apparition, the dauntless intruder made his exit, though subjected to a struggle at the church door.

It is what gives youth its most generous charm and makes it always poetic with its suggested powers and unaccomplished possibilities.

'The consummation of the infinite aim,' he says elsewhere, 'consists merely in removing the illusion which makes it seem yet unaccomplished.

Soon the last grains would trickle out of the glass; and then would come the endthe futile end, with the task still unaccomplished.

This desire alone is unaccomplished, that I have no one to transmit my name and support my old age.

A superstitious fancy might suggest that the anathema on Shakspeare's tombstone had fallen heavily on her head in requital of even the unaccomplished purpose of disturbing the dust beneath, and that the "Old Player" had kept so quietly in his grave, on the night of her vigil, because he foresaw how soon and terribly he would be avenged.

19 examples of  unaccomplished  in sentences