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Since that period the exportation of this important manure has attained unprecedented dimensions in every part of the globe.
The engravings, which are liberal to an unprecedented extent, cannot be too highly praised for their utility as illustrations.
By downright will-power Watson tore his attention away and directed it upon the other features of that unprecedented interior.
Amid unprecedented pomp he celebrates the coronation of his faithful and devoted wife, to whom he also has been faithful.
The last twenty years have contributed in a quite unprecedented manner to the development of the Bohemian language and literature.
While they waited, Steven's agent secured a really unprecedented opportunity for so young and relatively untried an actor.
Jordan's surprise, his landlady's zeal and efficiency showed no diminution, a thing unprecedented in his long and varied experience.
He obtained the triple tiara at the unprecedented age of thirty-seven, and wore it during the brightest period of the papacy.
Great in each, it is on this unprecedented combination that his peculiar fame will be reared, as upon an immortal tripod.
Its circulation was unprecedented, and its power to make or mar the fortunes of literary aspirants was esteemed absolute.
Ejaculated one General, but then he remembered what unprecedented adventure had happened to him, and he began to cry again.
He introduced vivacity of style, freshness and brevity of form, and an imaginative study of nature which was then unprecedented.
A period in which untold privations and unprecedented trials were mingled with the noblest spiritual triumphs was now commencing.
The officials thereupon pointed to the census figures, which showed that the natives were increasing at an unprecedented rate.
In spite of her non-rigidity the unprecedented strain to which she was subjected threatened to break her asunder amidships.
The situation in which his lordship was found by the schoolboy was, if not quite unprecedented, nevertheless rather surprising.
The proposed marriage would be a revolutionary act, an unprecedented scandal which might well upset the whole Roman Government.
They are even more shocking and unprecedented because of the large number of people who united their efforts to perpetrate them.
Causes of no ordinary character have recently depressed American credit in the stock market of the world to a degree quite unprecedented.
Hannah headed a cloaked exodus from the kitchen, chirping an astonishment which she claimed was unprecedented in her quiet life.
While paralyzed by this phenomenon, unprecedented in his practice, the doctor heard a metal point scribbling on the wall.
The genius which threw off stanza after stanza steeped in melody, was coupled with an unprecedented subjectivity and individualism.
It was Pierre Louis Bougainville, made a colonel already for extraordinary, almost unprecedented, valor and ability in so young a man.
Captain Sherrill ascribed the unprecedented flood entirely to the rains in the river bed caused by last year's crevasses.
The second night after his daughter's departure, Judge Kent had indulged in stimulants to an unprecedented and alarming extent.
Indeed, no object but religion and its enjoyment, could have borne them through their almost unprecedented trials and privations.
I use the word "unprecedented," because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today.
That game added more enthusiasm at Alton, and the mass meeting in the auditorium that evening attained unprecedented heights of emotion.
"Still, your employment of those first two articles was unprecedented, and your disposal of the carved figure absolutely embarrassed me."
With a week of favorable weather, and unprecedented speed the record out was won; officers, sailors, passengers, all were jubilant.
Khomeini came to power on the crest of a wave of unprecedented popular support, and he supplanted a cruel and corrupt dictator.
And then, with a majestic slowness, the entrance to the gateway became a static, unchanging picture of unprecedented geometric symmetry.
Soon even this resource failed him in a great measure, for a famine of unprecedented harshness swept over that part of the province.
When one considers the obstacles to American entrance into the war, the more remarkable and unprecedented does the final decision become.
And although our hearts had been hardened by the unprecedented miseries of this war, we were seized with pity and admiration.
It was, indeed, not one cause, but a very complex and unprecedented series of causes, that set the steam locomotive going.
During dinner (an extravagance very rare at all times with him, and in solitude unprecedented), he ordered a bottle of champagne.
No stone remained unturned and every clue that could reveal anything about his hero's life was followed up with unprecedented devotion.
Nor are the older men and the more experienced without grave misgivings as to the issue of such an unprecedented conflict.
In the two opening chapters we find the same delightfully realistic treatment of the unprecedented slowly mingling with the commonplace.
"I never, never was so bitterly persecuted; ask the President to protect me from this unwarranted, unmerited, and unprecedented persecution."
They met accordingly, and a stubborn contest ensued, marked on both sides by an altogether unprecedented display of vindictive temper.
The supply on hand is immense, but as a sale of unprecedented rapidity is anticipated, may I respectfully solicit your early orders?
Realizing that they had met some unprecedented enchantment, they had hurried home after the recoil to consult their respective Chancellors.
In his address to the miners and operators, President Roosevelt expressed his sense of the unprecedented character of his action.
In science, philosophy, politics, and religion, the foundations of belief are fearlessly examined, and the facilities for the process are unprecedented.
In that period, humane endeavor, like so many creepers, overran ordinary activities, and philanthropic movements unprecedented sprang up over the country.
The omens seem to point pretty unmistakably to a wide and quite unprecedented diversity in the various suburban townships and suburban districts.
Now the wide range in institutional development exemplified by the American Indians affords unprecedented opportunities for testing this postulate also.
This honor the Squire seemed to take as a sort of salve to his wounded dignity, and with unprecedented meekness accepted it.
And the demand this year is unprecedented; some of our leading importers had sold out their supply before the first of November.
On the occurrence of this unprecedented state of anarchy, the inhabitants of earth will be aware of the proximity of the Advent.
Dewey destroyed a large fleet, without the loss of a man, a feat unprecedented in the annals of warfare, ancient or modern.
My candor appears to have inspired some little confidence; and I obtained credit, an unprecedented thing, with the representative of the revenue.
This conduct was regarded as unprecedented treachery, and Domremy buzzed with talk as pilgrims related tales of what was occurring.
Her obsession was hideous, but by no means unprecedented; frequently the newspapers rejoiced in the airing of similar or more sordid cases.
The fury with which the liberated serfs rushed upon their tormentors was as unprecedented as the cruelties they had suffered.
The lover had condemned Barbara's unprecedented arrogance during the dance so severely that Martina found it unendurable to listen longer.
He fell silent a moment; and the girl looked on this unprecedented betrayal of feeling with eyes at once startled and sympathetic.
Early in 1822 the newspapers were able to assert that it had met with a sale unprecedented in the annals of American literature.
It is a singular event in the annals of forgery, that this should have been carried on undiscovered for so unprecedented a time.
There was an early supper, Antonia contributing a quite unprecedented alacrity; and then there was a cheerful call from the road.
By popular vote, by elastic constructions or palpable violations of the Constitution, by unprecedented assumptions, our Federal system has been revolutionized.
An unprecedented variety of geological specimens adorned her wrists and fingers, and hung over the bosom of her lavender satin gown.
Combined with its unusual strength, weight, and solidity, its beauty and the artistic character of its furnishing and decoration were unprecedented.
One of the companies of the Corps received on this day an honor, unprecedented in the previous or subsequent annals of the Regiment.
He had intended to be extremely severe about his daughter doing such an unprecedented thing as to remove her petticoat on the street.
Nathan and Temperance occupied one end of their accustomed pew, crushed into the corner by the overflowing of the unprecedented assembly.
The most strenuous and unprecedented efforts were made to take the assassins, and the most terrific penalties were denounced against them.
"Such a proceeding would be unprecedented, and besides I am too deeply interested in the case to handle it as dispassionately as is necessary."
The bridge itself was unprecedented in military annals, except, perhaps, by that of Xerxes, being nearly seven hundred yards long.
She was astonished also at the unprecedented concourse of people already assembled in chapel, with looks of eager excitement and flushed expectation.
The court, presided over by one of the most beautiful women who ever wore a diadem, was characterized by almost unprecedented magnificence.
New Haven people lined the streets in an unprecedented outpouring of welcome when the train pulled into the home station October 22.
In consternation at the unprecedented affliction, he strove to divest himself of his power; he hated the gift he had lately coveted.
The unprecedented abundance of our crops as a whole, coupled with the almost universal shortage in European countries, largely aided the rehabilitation.
In the perplexity of deciding what he ought to do, when official proceedings were interrupted in this unprecedented way, the master hesitated.
The greatest city the world has ever known seemed in those days to have entered upon an orgy of extravagance unprecedented in history.
The narrative, as we have it, implies not only that it was, but that there was something in it stupendous and unprecedented.
This unprecedented petition is signed by one hundred thousand men and women, who unite in this unparalleled number to support its prayer.
He also captured the coveted Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Championship an unprecedented four times (three consecutive), entitling him to retire the trophy.
All these unprecedented conditions have conspired to give business for business' sake a fascination and overwhelming importance it has never had before.
It was true that they had been defeated, but they had fought with unprecedented stubbornness and gave little evidence of being cowed.
They are entering into the collective thought to a degree unprecedented in the world's history, and with portents at once disquieting and confused.
The greater American railroad and industrial corporations control resources and conduct operations on a scale unprecedented in the economic history of the world.
The reasons for this prophesied ostracism were perhaps vague, but they were understood to be broad-based upon the unprecedented audacity of the novel.
The thoughtless and snobbish middle classes have been pulled up short by the very unpleasant experience of being ruined to an unprecedented extent.
Almost everyone in the metropolis knew that something quite out of the ordinary, unprecedented, indeed, in the history of the theater was afoot.
It found the enemy massed before it in unprecedented force, and ran into a devastating storm of machine-gun fire from left and front.
The culprit escaped, and in spite of offers of huge rewards and unprecedented police activity has remained undetected up to the present time.
With unprecedented stubbornness did she resist the enemy's fierce demands, and stand firm amid the death-dealing blows of shot and shell.
River Andrew's action and the unprecedented display of his Sunday hat on a week-day were nothing but the outcome of a deep-laid scheme.
The shock was fearful, and though, the missile failed to burst both women had an escape from death unprecedented in its narrowness.
Why desire always to show off your power in octave passages, your trills, your facility in skips, your unprecedented stretches, or other fantastic feats?
Her manner was that of a young empress who regards any criticism of herself as an audacious jest, so unprecedented as to be diverting.
The unprecedented scale upon which prisoners have been made during the present war has opened up a problem unique in the annals of history.
She could not understand the strange docility which had come over her; the unprecedented willingness to have her course shaped by another.
He believed absolutely in the unquestioned devotion of a woman to whom he had been forced to mete out death in an unprecedented and terrible manner.
During at least the last week of this almost unprecedented military performance the army had been reduced to less than half rations.
Events unprecedented in the annals of the world bade him lay aside physical science and tun to study mental and moral influences.