unsinking

Updated: May 5, 2025

I have cast the golden goblet of happiness into a maelstrom, and he alone, who walked unsinking the waves of Galilee, can bring back the lost treasure from the dark and boiling vortex. Julian was worthy of Edith. His parentage was honorable and pure, his connections irreproachable, and his own character noble and unblemished.

Caroline Lee Hentz - Ernest Linwood: or, The Inner Life of the Author

Bring quiet, sober reason into the loftiest and loveliest enthusiasm of your faith, and then there will be something in it that will live through storm, and walk the water with unwetted and unsinking foot. An impure alloy of selfish itching for pre-eminence and distinction does not seldom mingle with the fine gold of religious enthusiasm and desire to serve and be near our Lord.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII

But in reality they had already reached it. That evening, when their camp was pitched and they were about to retire to sleep, under the full light of the unsinking sun, the inrush of the Arctic tide, threatening to swamp their baggage and drown out their tents, proved beyond all doubt that they were now actually on the shore of the ocean. For three days Mackenzie remained beside the Arctic ocean.

Stephen Leacock - Adventurers of the Far North: A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas

And what with the unquestioned valour of Edward; what with the effect of his splendid person, towering above all present by the head, and moving lightly, with each impulse, through the mass of a mail that few there could have borne unsinking, this assertion of absolute power in the midst of mutiny an army marching to the gates imposed an unwilling reverence and sullen silence mixed with anger, that, while it chafed, admired.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Last of the Barons — Volume 07

The characteristic arrogance the undoubting anticipation of victory the utter thoughtlessness the unsinking vivacity of the French soldiery, were then at the highest pitch.

Sir Archibald Alison - Travels in France during the years 1814-15 : Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.

And what with the unquestioned valour of Edward; what with the effect of his splendid person, towering above all present by the head, and moving lightly, with each impulse, through the mass of a mail that few there could have borne unsinking, this assertion of absolute power in the midst of mutiny an army marching to the gates imposed an unwilling reverence and sullen silence mixed with anger, that, while it chafed, admired.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Last of the Barons — Complete