never-to-be-repeated

Updated: May 19, 2025

Of course Frau Berg and her boarders are to the Junker dreadful beyond words. But her question about you set me thinking. Won't you come, little mother? As it is such an unusual and never-to-be-repeated occurrence in our family that its one and only child should be going to marry?

Alice Cholmondeley - Christine

He became engaged, and there was no question now of a change of profession. Angèle was beautiful, and those days, when he read aloud to her chapters from Goethe, or inspired and inspiring passages from Winckelmann, or recited Hölderlin, or held forth to her on the masterworks in the Vatican, were full of never-to-be-repeated romantic asininity.

Gerhart Hauptmann - Atlantis