Wine-inspired orations that delighted his guests, portrait busts of himself in every town, grotesque catalogues of campaigns against unheard-of negro tribes inscribed even on the venerable pyramids did not accord with the traditions of Rome.

The savage and predatory character of the Baluchi was formerly well exemplified in these lawless incursions, when large tracts of country were pillaged and devastated and the most unheard-of cruelties practised.

After that day's Marathon with the grizzly he was filled with uneasinessa fear that he might lose his big friend and food-killer, and he was determined that the parent he had adopted should have no opportunity of slipping away from him unheard and unseen.

She asked for a doctor, a piece of extravagance unheard of in the wilds.

And straight overhead, so far up that even the murmur of the motor was unheard, no more than a bird, indeed, against the pale sky, "Mr. Taube," circling indolently about, picking his moment, plotting our death.

Sitting comfortably at some cafe table, reading the papers with morning coffee, one saw the dawn coming up over the Oise and Aisne, heard the French "seventy-fives" and the heavy German siege-guns resume their roar; saw again, for the hundredth time, some hitherto unheard-of little man flinging away his life in one brief burst of glory.

For an oration becomes agreeable when you say anything unexpected, or unheard of, or novel, for whatever excites wonder gives pleasure.

It was with altered eyes that she must look on the poor girl, the victim of such an unheard-of fatality.

Trivial accidents are not uncommon in the gymnasium, severe ones are rare, fatal ones almost unheard-of,which is far more than can be said of riding, driving, hunting, boating, skating, or even "coasting" on a sled.

Every now and then, however, a badger is dug out or discovered in some way in places where they were unheard of before.

All the company stared with surprise at such an unheard-of doctrine being broached on board of a man-of-war.

"Really, he is a worthy old soul, and actually believes all these things with his whole heart, attaching unheard-of importance to the most abstract ideas, and embarking his whole being in his ideal view of a grand Millennial finale to the human race.

Work had ceased; the hum of business was still, and noise and tumult were unheard on the streets.

None go away unread, or unheard.

"Such unheard of insolence!"

There was a blur before the lady's eyesa buzzing in her earsand the footfall she had listened for so long was now unheard as it came slowly to her side.

If fidelity and honour be banished from thieves, where shall they find refuge upon the face of the earth?"[F] Larkins in particular thanked the captain for his interference, and swore that he would rather part with his right hand than injure so worthy a lad or assist such an unheard-of villainy.

She had starched the muslins!a circumstance, I am perfectly certain, unheard of in the memory o' man, and a thing which my mother ne'er did.

The ignorance, permitted by the government, causes an unheard amount of misery and degradation.

"Such singular and unheard of clemency cannot be passed over by me in silence."Ib., p. 10.

He said it was unheard of.

So thought the duke, who, unheard by her, had entered the room.

The rivers rose to an unheard of extent, and scarcely a house remained standing.

Dietary precautions were apparently unheard of except in the case of certain chronic ailments, and then they were accepted as one of life's worst evils.

It is not necessary that you should state a fact altogether new and unheard-of, but if you tell me its color, or some of the uses to which it is applied, you will be complying with my request.