Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Untolled; not having the bell tolled for one at death or funeral.
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Examples
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The man who wrote such a poem should not be unknelled, unhonored, and unsung.
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
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They are not only in graveyards, where "mossy marbles rest"; they are strewn, "unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown," over the whole surface of the globe, and lie embosomed in the gulfs of the great, restless ocean.
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Succumbing to their sufferings, the others dropped, one by one, by the wayside unknelled and uncoffined.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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Nation, were sent to their graves, "unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown," victims of the most barbarous and unnecessary cruelty recorded since the
Andersonville John McElroy 1887
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Nation, were sent to their graves, "unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown," victims of the most barbarous and unnecessary cruelty recorded since the
Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887
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Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.
Familiar Quotations John Bartlett 1862
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But we get used to these things, in this best of all possible worlds; and if the poacher died unwept, unknelled, unprayed for, all that can be said of the matter is -- that many a better man has met with a worse fate.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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Without a grave -- unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. [qe]
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Young Ewing Allison] "The man who wrote such a poem should not be unknelled, unhonored and unsung."
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
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Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.
- Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
September 11, 2008