unsense

Updated: May 21, 2025

Grim, savage Shelton, who has a civil word for nobody, and a hard blow for anybody. Hard! One blow given with the proper play of his athletic arm will unsense a giant. Yonder individual, who strolls about with his hands behind him, supporting his brown coat lappets, undersized, and who looks anything but what he is, is the king of the light-weights, so-called Randall!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Through the Magic Door

Crosses him what a contrast! grim, savage Shelton, who has a civil word for nobody, and a hard blow for anybody hard! one blow, given with the proper play of his athletic arm, will unsense a giant.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Crosses him, what a contrast! grim, savage Shelton, who has a civil word for nobody, and a hard blow for anybody hard! one blow, given with the proper play of his athletic arm, will unsense a giant.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Crosses him what a contrast! grim, savage Shelton, who has a civil word for nobody, and a hard blow for anybody hard! one blow, given with the proper play of his athletic arm, will unsense a giant.

George Henry Borrow - The Pocket George Borrow

My nevvy, he likes 'em; but I do cherish more on fine drink than filthy lucre any day o' God's good weeks. Leave goo my arm, yeou common sailorman! I tall 'ee, gentlemen, I hain't the ram-faced, ruddle-nosed old fule yeou reckon I be. Before the mast I've fared in my time; fisherman I've been since I seed the unsense of sea-dangerin'. Baccy and spirits yiss, an' cigars too, I've run a plenty.

Rudyard Kipling - Traffics and Discoveries

Crosses him, what a contrast! grim, savage Shelton, who has a civil word for nobody, and a hard blow for anybody—hard! one blow, given with the proper play of his athletic arm, will unsense a giant.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest