unflung

Updated: June 4, 2025

As he looked afar he saw a black basin of timbered country, the darkest and wildest he had ever gazed upon, a hundred miles of blue distance across to an unflung mountain range, hazy purple against the sky. It seemed to be a stupendous gulf surrounded on three sides by bold, undulating lines of peaks, and on his side by a wall so high that he felt lifted aloft on the run of the sky.

Zane Grey - To the Last Man

'Scamped and empty work, in which 'ideas not worth stating' find an expression 'not worth criticism. Mannerisms grown to absurdity; faults of early training writ dismally large; vulgarity of conception and carelessness of execution no stone that could hurt or sting was left unflung, and the note of meditative pity in which the article came to an end, marked the climax of a very neat revenge.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Fenwick's Career