Example Sentences

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Count Potowski is the one unmaterial musician I ever knew.

From Fairfax and His Pride by Vorst, Marie Van

Yet whether other beings, other presences, unmaterial, imponderable, intangible, did not walk the streets along with them, is open to doubt.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas

It was as if all the dreams, sleeping and waking, of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine.

From Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

The material is in motion by the currents of unmaterial life.

From ABC's of Science by Oliver, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)

I was therefore obliged to order dinner for Miss Planta, and myself in my own Sitting-parlour, which was now unmaterial, as the equerries did not come to tea, but continued +altogether in the music-room.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny