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• Meanwhile, last week's literary salon at Shoreditch House revealed the hitherto unguessed-at intellectual depths of our favourite tvTV soaps.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Why, otherwise, would a visionary not want to emulate Blair, Michelle Obama and David Cameron, and recruit a sea of juvenile extras to reinforce the message of hope and transformation, or in the Queen or Gordon Brown's case, unguessed-at reserves of vivacity?
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That his urgency had captured her too, lifting her, all unaware, to some other unguessed-at plane with heart-stopping speed, showing her that the pinnacle of rapture was there, waiting for her if only — if only she could reach …
The Count's Blackmail Bargain Craven, Sara 2005
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Deep valleys and gorges offered unguessed-at opportunities for concealment.
Blazing Sun Ernsting, Walter 1975
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And the Wabbly had no defense against the unguessed-at effects of unknown weapons except ....
Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 Murray Leinster 1935
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The other medallions seemed to contain apparatus for purposes yet unguessed-at.
Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935
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Mezelais she had viewed the great conqueror as through an aweful haze of forerunning rumor, twin to that golden vapor which enswathes a god and transmutes whatever in corporeal man had been a defect into some divine and hitherto unguessed-at excellence.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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He looked at her fixedly, as though unguessed-at horizons of innocence widened inimitably before his horrified eyes.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Mezelais she had viewed the great conqueror as through an aweful haze of forerunning rumor, twin to that golden vapor which enswathes a god and transmutes whatever in corporeal man would have been a defect into some divine and hitherto unguessed-at excellence.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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Two of them were shut tight, and he could not kick them open; the dried-out teak and the heavy iron bolts held as though they had been built to resist a siege; the noise that he made as he rattled at them frightened a swarm of unseen things - unguessed-at shapes - that scurried away.
Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914
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