The criticism which Shelley intended to write on Hyperion remained, to all appearance, unwritten.

There is implied, an unwritten compact between author and reader: "I will tell you a story, and I suppose you will understand it.

Lenore, however, was haunted by an unwritten meaning in her brother's letter.

I might say, though, that happiness and good fellowship and a little spice of sisterliness are what we try to incorporate in the unwritten bylaws.

As it was an unwritten law of Brill that all hazers must pay for any damage done to college property while hazing anybody, one of the sophomores started for the lavatory where the hose had been attached to a water faucet.

For me the Vedas are divine and unwritten.

9. 'Dryden's contemporaries, however they reverenced his genius, left his life unwritten; and nothing therefore can be known beyond what casual mention and uncertain tradition have supplied.'

Letters home remained unwritten.

This is not always appreciated by people who do not know the Alps and their unwritten laws, and the Guides complain somewhat bitterly that they are often put in very difficult positions.

But there are also other divisions of law; for there is both the written and the unwritten law,each of which is maintained by the rights of nations and the customs of our ancestors.

But those laws which are unwritten, owe their influence either to custom or to some agreement between, and as it were to the common consent of men.

If we conform to the unwritten laws of the chase, and pay for the damage we do, there will be no fear of fox-hunting dying out.

The bonds of unwritten custom which the older grants did little more than recognize had proved too weak to hold the Angevins; and the baronage now threw them aside for the restraints of written law.

If England did not keep her unwritten pledge to France, it would be dangerous and a shameful thing to be an Englishman in Paris.

Unwritten treaty.

Unwritten rules of American politics.

He told all the Passwords, the Secret Mottoes, the Oaths, the Meaning of the Symbols and the Unwritten Work.

I heard a man repeat a couplet, probably of unwritten poetry, in popular vogue among the Highlands, and which has quite an Irish collocation of ideas.

They related many incidents about the great eviction in Sutherland, which was an event that seems to make a large stock of legendary and unwritten stories, like the old Sagas of the Northmen.

He should know this not from a casual conversation, nor a loose and careless inquiry, but, as the unwritten law of the Order expresses it, from "strict trial, due examination, or lawful information.

One of the most important landmarks, contained in our unwritten law, more definitely announces this provision, by the words, that the aid and assistance shall be without injury to oneself or his family.

The events were not tabulated, but evolved through the unwritten law of precedent.

Prospectors wandered through the mountains in search of new and suitable gold diggings, and when they came to a miner's cabin the door was always open, and whether the owner was present or absent they could go in, and if hungry, help themselves to anything they found in shape of food, and go away again without fear of offense, for under such circumstances the unwritten law said that grub was free.

By the same unwritten law, stealing and robbery, as well as murder, were capital offences, and lawless characters were put down.

There was an unwritten law among us boys never to kill a cricket, and we kept it as sacredly as was kept the law of the Medes and Persians.