unengineered

Updated: May 23, 2025

The very last man whom Brandon could bear to see in that place and at that time! Brandon's visit to-day was not entirely unengineered. To be honest, he had not spoken quite the truth to his daughter when he had said that the Bishop had asked him out there for consultation.

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Cathedral

But when, at the end of the eighteenth century, writers, of secondary powers at best, engaging in a new and unengineered way, endeavoured to write historical novels, they all, from Godwin and Mrs.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)